According to the Washington Post, the Obama Administration has foiled a bold plan by the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US while he is in Washington, DC:
The Obama administration on Tuesday directly accused Iran and its elite Quds Force of backing the alleged attempt to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, using hit men from a Mexican drug gang. The allegation plunged U.S.-Iranian relations into crisis and sent U.S. officials scrambling in search of new punitive measures to impose against a country that has already been hit with multiple rounds of sanctions.
The brazenness of the plot outlined by Justice Department officials struck many current and former U.S. officials as out of character for Iran, which has rarely, if ever, been so bold as to strike targets in America.
Seriously? No one expected Iran to commit crimes on US soil? You mean because our policy towards them has been so toothless and ineffective? They should be scared because no one holds Iran accountable for their rogue behavior? They kidnap British sailors, American hikers and anyone else they feel like kidnapping and their punishment is millions in ransom money. I’m sure the iranians are shaking in their boots with anticipation of the strongly-worded letter they’re about to receive.
ADDED: Fox News is reporting that the plot also involved the Mexican drug cartels;
U.S. officials say the suspects in the case were working on a “murder for hire” scheme to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States using explosives. They allegedly reached out to a U.S. source in Mexico posing as a drug cartel representative. Arbabsiar allegedly tried to hire the source and his accomplices to carry out the attack.
The two most direct threats to our national security which we’ve virtually ignored for decades involved in a plot together. WHo would have ever thought? Not this administration, that’s for sure.
And the timing is suspect.
All this just HAPPENS at the same time that Rep Issa serves a subpoena to Holder that he’d BETTER come in front of Congress & tell ALL concerning Fast & Furious — OR ELSE. No more obfuscations, lies, or redaction.
Again – funny about the timing of the discovery of this assassination “plot.”
Of course the Iranian was going to seek out help from the Mexican drug cartels. They are the most well armed group around thanks to the 0bama administration. Is there anything 0bama won’t use fast and furious to jsutify? Need to take away the guns of legal gun owners in the border states? Use fast and furious. Need to distract the public from fast and furious? Use the beneficiaries of fast and furious….
” I’m sure the iranians are shaking in their boots with anticipation of the strongly-worded letter they’re about to receive.”
Jonn, you’re forgetting that this is such a serious incident that a stern look will also be part of the response. That is sure to make the Iranians wet their diapers.
Anyone want to lay odds that DOJ tries to say that their gunwalker op helped track down this Mexican triggerman? Anyone?
Never thought of that, Claymore, but I suspect you’re correct. After all, if not for the AK-47’s that Holder allowed to go south, he’d never, ever have learned about Iran hiring Mexicans to come north to kill the Saudi ambassador. Wonder if he and Obama will decide whether or not they were “immigrants” seeking a “better life” along the way, and not prosecute them?
Seems that they knew about this for a few months, I guess it’s my suspicious nature to wonder why they waited to pop the cork on this news?
IIRC, Hizbollah has known to be mucking around in Mexico for a couple of years, so the main Iranian intel folks can’t have been too far behind. But the timing still stinks. If it is all true, Holder has still done a disservice to the folks actually doing the work by using this to cover his rump and tarnishing their reputation in the process.
I love your logic Lilyea if faux newx says it then it must be true.
Your just jealous because this administration is killing terrorists and stopping terrorists, while the prior administration was more concerned with war profiteering and lining their own pockets.
In one term this president has killed for more HVT’s (that’s high value targets for Old Trooper) Then Dubya did in two.
I meant far more HVT’s LOL!!
“HVTs”, because killing them where they stand is better than capturing and taking them to GITMO to extract information, before disposing of their carcasses.
@9 “extract information”? I think you mean torture..
No, bobgirl, torture is reading the bullshit you post.
And what information was “extracted” in Gitmo? More to point holding prisoners and the executing them after they are no longer considered useful? I’m sorry I thought our capital was Washington DC, not fucking Beijing or Moscow.
Extracting Information while the sucker is still breathing, getting a nice tan, having a new Queeran or prayer rug just for the asking,,,,, as opposed to Instant worm food.
And, “Scouts Out”, which executions? Don’t recall reading of them in the mudstream media, FOXNews.com, or even at the Huffnpuff site.
And there you go, Obumblergirl, using that “I think you mean…” line again. It should never be used unless one has first but his/her brain in gear.
go get some exercise Old Trooper
@13 Queeran? I know I have said this before but you’re a bigot Frankly. You’re crappy merchandise is filled with hateful racist stuff and now you say this. You’re everything that is wrong with America!!!!!!!
Congratulations Frank, You’ve just got the best endorsement possible from Oblivious Girl. LOL
OG, your mother was right. We should have killed you at birth. Damn.
Oh, and did you notice the little linky Jonn put up at the top of the post? The one which says WASHINGTON POST? You remember them, lapdogs of Fox News…well, not so much.
And why is it that the OBAMA administration released two of the five guys involved in this latest incident?
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/10/mastermind_of_deadly.php
Now be a good girl, and do us all a favor and stick to that which you do best–that being servicing truckers along the New Jersey Turnpike. I’m guessing your “service in Iraq” prepared you well for your current vocation of comfort girl.
Failing that, go suck a fucking grenade, twat.
Scouts Out: we had no idea even the structure of Al Qadea. A little waterboarding gave us a far clearer picture of who our enemy was what their structure was like, and also where they got their funding. Also those nasty evil “extraction” techniques gave us OBL’s head on a platter (figuratively sadly)
OG: Wait a sec, I need to figure this out. You were an MP right? or were you an ODA. Or was that your BF who wimped out cuz he couldn’t take a little rough talk from some of these roughnecks? Sorry OG, but you’re credibility is about as great as a Democrat promising to balance the budget. I have yet to see anything “bigoted” that Frank might’ve put out. I may disagree artistically but some of the stuff up there is funny as hell, which if you or any significant other had served a day past the piss test would know/love.
While it is fun to use logic and facts to *figuratively* keep my pimp hand strong, honestly after a while the “go suck a grenade, twat” option sounds better and better.
Personally I would LOVE to hear your alternative. So far all I’ve EVER heard you do is bitch about what is. Anyone can do that. do you recommend we simply kill terrorists wherever we find them? We tried that before in this little country called Vietnam. Killed a whole mess of bad guys, but apparently that wasn’t a good thing. Let them go, try to reason with them, the “Law enfocement” approach. Tried that too. See: Beirut, Lockerbee, 1st WTC bombing, Gothic Serpent (aftermath), Kobar, Kenya, Nairobi, USS Cole and 9/11. Notice that from Gothic Serpent on, up till 9/11 there was a DEM in office, and seeing as it usually takes about a year to switch out political appointees to certain key positions, yeah you can lay 9/11 on old Billy’s hands too. So PLEASE explain to me how you would do a better job.
Thanks, Doc. I knew I could count on ya. All kidding aside, if OG HAD an alternate idea or even wanted to present a contrary point of view without the “swoop and poop” tactics she and her phony-assed bretheren are now famous (notorious?) for, I might give her a bit of credit.
But she can’t, so it’s straight for the grenade in her cockholster. There comes a point where facts and logic are lost of people like her, and it’s easier and more fun just to give her the proverbial kicking of her ass up between her shoulder blades.
I am not going to waste my time posting alternative ideas because for one Lilyea moderates my comments so it would never make it on the thread secondly I would just be met with insult after insult so if I know that’s what is going to happen I will respond as such.. Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight as my bf says.
OG, how do you feel about the Palestinians (I can hardly wait). And let me guess…I’ll be ‘Rendition’ is one of your favorite films, right? And you have what level of education??? A HS degree?? And you live Where? CALIFORNIA??? Go for it babe — start throwing those unsupported assumptions out and shrieks you mistake for informed opinion into cyberspace….
OG–can you cite examples of Jonn moderating your comments? Just asking.
And Hunter–OG is one of those “edumakated” hippie types. Spends a shitload of money on “gender studies” classes, which is a fancy way of saying, “Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.” Lives in NJ.
Toss a pic of BO off a cliff and watch OG jump off after it. Education doesn’t make you smart by any means. OG is proof of that.