I've read some of the coverage on the plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador and it does not pass the smell test for me.
The Iranians are no strangers at carrying out assassinations, with or without explosives. They are not amateurs. This plot, though, on the other hand, has all of the hallmarks of a bunch of al Qaeda wannabees who couldn't wipe their asses without technical help from the FBI.
The bit about hiring a killer from a Mexican drug cartel makes zero sense. The cartels know full well what can happen when they attract undue attention from the Americans, which was demonstrated after the murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. They don't want that sort of attention.
Further, the idea that the Iranians are going to trust a bunch of criminals is the stuff of fiction. The Iranians know that a band of criminals cannot be trusted, for they are in it for the money alone and in any sizable group of organized criminals, there are going to be informants. The Feds would pay a very large amount of money to an informant who ratted out such a plot.
It is more likely, to my mind, that this so-called Iranian plot is a "false flag" operation.
I'm not saying that there is nothing there. But there needs to be some serious substantiation before I'll buy the story that AG Holder is peddling. For right now, if this plot were the premise of a movie, I'd not watch it.
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It's even too stupid to imagine as a false flag operation. The only people likely to believe this are Fox News viewers. In fact, it seems to hit quite a few of their hot buttons. Iranians and Mexicans as bad guys... poor, imperiled Saudis (Will no one think of the oil?!) terrorism, bombs, Israel... Put a little government incompetence in there, maybe something about the Post Office, or the French... and it would give every Righty a multiple feargasm.
You call me naieve or ignorant of the "Dangers" of Iran but I really am tired of "no but you do" Bullshit.
The powers that be are acting like spolied brats 2 hours past nap time and with full diapers. Bolton, the Israiles, the hard core in this country, All of them.
I guess that diplomacy is only a textbook concept, like peace!
I agree that Iran is way too sophiscated to be involved it such a cracker barrel attack. Last thing they need is to be seen in a worse light than they are.
Sure wish they'd publish who really is behind this, I believe I can smell their full diapers already.
w3ski
This plot and all the rhetoric spewing from it only benefits Saudi Arabia and Israel, just like our attack on Iraq. It is sad to see a once mighty country being manipulated by two of the crappiest allies any country ever had.
It stinks of bullshit and a thinly veiled justification for military action against Iran perhaps.
Maybe not as thin as George W's reasoning for a war with Iraq but that worked so why not. The only thing I am sure of is that our government thinks we are too stupid to figure it out. They may be right.
Kudos, three cheers, a green star, a high five or whatever the hell it is you get for writing a particularly cogent and insightful post. False flag, indeed.
I'm not sure I buy your rejection of the idea that Iran is a bumbling conspirator. Turns out that in the espionage business, most of the time nobody's particularly sophisticated. In fact, the more amateurish and sophomoric, the better.
For example?
I'm old enough to remember when the CIA tried to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar. That idea must have come straight out of the Johnson & Smith Novelty Company ads in the 1950s comic books. (Other products included the "joy buzzer" and the "whoopee cushion.")
Yours very crankily,
The New York Crank
Heh. Johnson & Smith... They were going to make me another Johnny Atlas that could see through girls' clothing, with my own population of amazing sea monkeys that obeyed my every command...
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