So whatever happened to that HUGH!1! Iranian plot to use used car salesmen to recuit Mexican gangs..

[Poll_Blind]

..to assassinate Saudi diplomats? Funny how an assertion like that sort of drops off the map when the entire world calls bullshit on it.

Says right there on the FBI's feedback page "If you're not suitably spooked by one of our terror plots, we will happily replace it with another- minus a small restocking fee, of course."

:shrug:

PB

[Schema Thing]

1. wtf are you talking about?

The assertion has not been retracted in the least.

[90-percent]

2. OWS

I hope OWS is increasing America's level of awareness about the amount of LYING PROPAGANDA our own government feeds us.

To keep us fearful and at each others throats over wedge issues. And oblivious to the OLIGARCHY that now has complete rule over all of us.

It is becoming more clear to all of America that OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE INFESTED WITH GREEDY AND CORRUPT SOCIOPATHS.

-90% jimmy

[Old and In the Way]

3. Reminds me of Maxwell Smart's rhetorical questioning preface-

Would you believe.....?

I'd really like to know about the evolution of this message...sure sounds like something that would have been hatched by the previous administration to justify an Iranian cassus belli.

[EFerrari]

10. LOL. So true.

[Robb]

4. Did you know there are several news sources besides Press TV?

:D

[Poll_Blind]

7. Hey look everybody, it's Robb!

Hey Robb!

:hi:

PB

[MADem]

8. +1000. If Press TV was a broadsheet, I'd be leery of wiping my butt on it.

Talk about worthless bullshit!

[EFerrari]

11. Like their American collaborators at NPR?

Link Between Iran's Quds Force And Bomb Plot 'Doesn't Seem To Fit'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/13/141326426/link-between-irans-quds-force-and-bomb-plot-doesnt-seem-to-fit

[SwampG8r]

5. holder took it over

filled the cars with guns for em and everything

[maddezmom]

6. looks like the US and the EU are still working on it

EU sanctions 5 men suspected in plot to kill Saudi ambassador
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-21/middleeast/world_meast_eu-saudi-plot_1_eu-sanctions-saudi-ambassador-catherine-ashton?_s=PM:MIDDLEEAST

Suspects formally charged in alleged Iran plot in US
http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/single/599/172/1244361/

:shrug:

[MADem]

9. Gee, that'll disappoint the critics! nt

[Poll_Blind]

12. Where's the link that with the evidence which ties the Iranian government to the plot?

PB

[maddezmom]

14. I have no idea

:hi:

[Poll_Blind]

19. That's the problem. As I've...

...http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2107968">posted before, I don't believe the plot is entirely fabricated- but the leap that this is a state-sponsored terrorism (without hard evidence) is specious.

PB

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. They have presumptive evidence on the Qutz force

I will give you this, their president learned of this at the same time as the rest of us.

[EFerrari]

13. It looks like one of those FBI stings for Agent job security.

4 Things You Need to Know About the Iran Bomb Plot

—By Adam Serwer
| Wed Oct. 12, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

The assassination was never going to take place. On Tuesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller described Iranian American Mansour Arbabsiar's alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States as straight out of a "Hollywood script." In a sense he was right—because the plot was controlled from the beginning by the FBI. According to the criminal complaint, when Arbabsiar traveled to Mexico in May 2011, to allegedly find an assassin from the ranks of Mexican drug cartels, he ended up talking to a paid DEA* informant who dodged drug charges in exchange for cooperating with authorities. In keeping with previous sting cases, the FBI was careful to record statements from Arbabsiar dismissing the possibility of numerous civilian casualties, something that makes an entrapment defense all but impossible to mount.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/four-things-you-need-know-about-iran-bomb-plot

[maddezmom]

15. who knows, could be guess we'll just have to see where it all leads

:hi:

[EFerrari]

22. I'm sure no expert on Iran

but nobody who is seems to agree with this theory and no one who knows the FBI seems to put it past them.

lol

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Charges have been files in NYC district court

As any ongoing LEGAL case things tend to become quiet silent.

[rusty fender]

18. I completely agree!

The MIC so wants a war v. Iran.

I have a magnetized "IRAN WAR. NO!" bumpersticker that was on my truck during the Bush Admin. I am flabbergasted that I may have to resurrect it for this admin. However, I am constantly reassured by members of this board that Obama would never allow a U.S. war v. Iran, so we don't have to worry about that happening unless Obama loses the next election. Right?
:shrug:

[Poll_Blind]

20. And not just in the obvious ways, but this is also being milked in...

...http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.+Res.+429:">less-obvious ways as well.

PB

[rusty fender]

21. Thanks for that link...

the Repukes are really aching for war against Latin America. Don't these guys have any shame? They are just pro-war and anti-tax! Not to mention anti-gay and anti-women. :wtf: