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The following are to record some facts
The following is to record some facts, not to urge action one way or the other about verification:
1. The October 21, 2005 issue of Scimitar, available online, has the email address of "Combined Press Information Center Director Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan", therefore I judge that the email address is in the public domain.
2. It is easy enough to get some basic information about the iraq.centcom.mil servers. If I were a braver man I might attempt to make a simple test to see if it is possible to make those servers serve fake email. Right now I don't even want to try to ping them.
3. Assuming a forgery, I doubt someone would be as simple-minded as outlined here:
https://www.ualberta.ca/AICT/Security/headers-tutorial.html