Okay. It's not true.
A simple test: If these exact same sources were telling you that Saddam had a secret nuclear weapons program that had been moved to Syria just before the war, would you buy it?
What the media is doing is laying groundwork. If someone is captured ANYTIME before the election, they can say "the fix was in." Similar groundwork is being laid for accusations of election fraud, but that's another story.
And it's not news that we have been pushing Pakistan to work harder at the border.