So who's behind the plot to kill the Saudi ambassador?

[midnight rambler]

Three guesses and the last two don't count.

[chad]

a white, protestant, conservative, male from des moines, iowa?

[Dogman]

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?54934-U.S.-Says-Iran-Tied-Terror-Plot-in-Washington-D.C.-Disrupted




Beelzebub!

[General of Darkness]

The amish.

[DMac]

I've stopped counting, but my theory is that we need at least 3 prior failed/disrupted attempts by the Iranians prior to launching the big FF strike to galvanize public opinion into the next stage of the GWOT.

That way the politicos can say, "look they tried x, y, z, and now they did this!" Then boom goes the bunker busters.

[JDRock]

who needs THREE?....hold on a minute im gonna sneeze....haaa...aa JEEEEWWW!

[Neuro]

I have a hunch it may be the Tibetans...

[Heimdhal]

The Bahamians.


I mean seriously, whens the last time you heard of them in the news attacking another country? Exactly! Crafty fucks.

[gunDriller]

ISRAEL 50% to 75% chance

[Olmstein]

Canada?

[osoab]

Canada?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPRHXgYVlk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPRHXgYVlk

[Dogman]

Na!

More likely


Grand Fenwick!

[Uncle Salty]

Hot Karl.

[Libertarian_Guard]

Might Jackie O be up for the job?

[jimswift]

Nobody.

FBI concocting news headlines doesn't count.

[cortez]

osama bin discoboogeyman

[Cebu_4_2]

Might Jackie O be up for the job?

And we have a winner! Is this je/// lady still alive? FBI CIA brainwashing goes a long ways.

Can't wait for my great great grandchildren to read the memoirs along with watching that video.

[Serpo]

A used car salesman;D

[mamboni]

I don't know if there is any plot. I don't a believe damn thing 0bama or this corrupt lying government says. One thing is for certain: Iran has far more to lose than anyone else by pulling such a stunt. It makes no sense and doesn't pass the smell test. But, Israel would far and away be the biggest benificiary of a US attack on Iran. And history is witness to the fact that the Jews have instigated more wars than all other peoples combined. And the malignant Zionists are warmongering Jews on steroids. Zionist love war: millions of goyim die while they gleefully count the profits from armaments sales and interest on war debts incurred. When the hell are the people going to wake up to these vampiric bastards and their deadly games? They are a cancer on the world.

[Book]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4780738655_949eafb108.jpg

BREAKING: Israeli Intelligence just released conclusive photographic evidence linking Iran with the plot to kill a Saudi official on USA soil.

::) Fifth Fleet is now moving towards the Gulf Coast

[mamboni]

No One Is Buying Iranian Terror Allegations




http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-7813.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington)
Submitted by George Washington (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington) on 10/13/2011 19:18 -0400


Iran Terror Plot: No Evidence
The day before Attorney General was subpoenaed about what he knew about the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Agency's "Fast and Furious" operation to get weapons to Mexico's largest drug cartel (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047297/Fast-Furious-guns-home-Mexicos-Sinaloa-drug-cartel-boss-scandal-force-Attorney-General-Eric-Holder-quit.html), the U.S. government announced that the Iranians planned to kill a Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil.
And they said - you guessed it - that it was DOJ and DEA who broke up the plot (http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/201110121715573693.html).
But no one is buying it ... not even the pro-war mainstream media (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/5-reasons-that-corporate-media-coverage-is-pro-war.html).
The New York Times notes (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/iran-sees-terror-plot-accusation-as-diversion-from-wall-street-protests.html?_r=2&hp) in a post entitled "U.S. Challenged to Explain Accusations of Iran Plot in the Face of Skepticism":

The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to reconcile what it said was solid evidence of an Iranian plot to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States with a wave of puzzlement and skepticism from some foreign leaders and outside experts.
Senior American officials themselves were struggling to explain why the Quds Force, an elite international operations unit within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, would orchestrate such a risky attack in so amateurish a manner.
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American officials offered no specific evidence linking the plot to Iran’s most senior leaders.
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Mr. Zarate and senior American officials said the assassination plan did not have the hallmarks of a Quds operation. “It was very extreme and very odd, but it was also very sloppy,” Mr. Zarate said. “If you look at what they have done historically, they can put operatives on their targets and execute. They usually don’t outsource, but keep things inside a trusted network.”
One problem for President Obama and his administration is that since American intelligence claims about Iraq’s illicit weapons proved false in 2003, assertions by the United States about its adversaries have routinely faced skepticism from other countries.
“Of course, that is in people’s heads. Everyone is extremely skeptical about U.S. intelligence revelations,” said Volker Perthes, an Iran expert who is the director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.
CNN (http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=16372) notes the growing skepticism about the allegations.
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer says that an FBI insider told him the dubious terror plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador which has been blamed on Iran was likely manufactured by the Obama administration, because no information about the plot even exists within FBI channels:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfsWIoO2CPc&feature=player_embedded

Glenn Greenwald writes (http://www.salon.com/2011/10/12/the_very_scary_iranian_terror_plot/singleton/):

The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it.
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For brazen irony, how can this be beat (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/11/official-fbi-dea-disrupt-terror-plot-in-u-s-involving-iran/?hpt=hp_t1)?

Tom Kean, former chairman of the 9/11 Commission said the alleged plot “surprises me.” Speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnett, Kean said the plot is “pretty close to an act of war. You don’t go in somebody’s capital to blow somebody up.”
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So facially absurd are the claims here — why would Iran possibly wake up one day and decide that it wanted to engage in a Terrorist attack on U.S. soil when it could much more easily kill Saudi officials elsewhere? and if Iran and its Quds Force are really behind this inept, hapless, laughable plot, then nothing negates the claim that Iran is some Grave Threat like this does — that there is more skepticism expressed even in establishment media accounts than one normally finds about such things. Even the NYT noted — with great understatement — that the allegations “provoked puzzlement from specialists on Iran, who said it seemed unlikely that the government would back a brazen murder and bombing plan on American soil.” The Post noted (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/alleged-plot-is-uncharacteristically-bold/2011/10/11/gIQA7vzpdL_story.html?hpid=z1) that “the very rashness of the alleged assassination plot raised doubts about whether Iran’s normally cautious ruling clerics supported or even know about it.” The Atlantic‘s Max Fisher has more (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/would-iran-really-want-to-blow-up-the-saudi-ambassador-to-the-us/246505/) on why this would be so out of character for Iran.

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The Christian Science Monitor details (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1012/Why-Iran-assassination-plot-doesn-t-add-up-for-Iran-experts) the many reasons why “Iran specialists who have followed the Islamic Republic for years say that many details in the alleged plot just don’t add up.”

more at: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/no-one-buying-iranian-terror-allegations

[Nomoss]

who needs THREE?....hold on a minute im gomma sneeze....haaa...aa JEEEEWWW!
Thank you I was in need of a good haha.

[keehah]

This is how the professionals do it:
:p
Saudi heir to throne dies in hospital (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/22/saudi-crown-prince-saud-dies.html)

AP Oct 22
The heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, died abroad Saturday, the country's royal court said in a statement carried by state television. The death of the prince opens questions about the succession in the critical, oil-rich U.S. ally.

Crown Prince Sultan, thought to be in his 80s, was reported to be undergoing treatment for cancer in a New York hospital, but the official cause of death is not known.

[Neuro]

This is how the professionals do it:
:p
Saudi heir to throne dies in hospital (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/22/saudi-crown-prince-saud-dies.html)

Here is a little something from that article about his halfbrother, who is expected to take the reigns after Abdullah now when Sultan is dead!


Nayef also maintains a hard line against regional rival, the Shia power Iran, claiming earlier this year that Tehran was encouraging protests among Saudi Arabia's minority Shiites. Nayef was deeply involved in the kingdom's decision in March to send military forces into neighbouring Bahrain to help crush pro-reform demonstrations led by tiny island nation's majority Shias against its Sunni rulers — which Gulf Arab leaders accuse of having ties to Iran.

Probably just a coincidence... ;D