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Saudi Ambassador attack...thwarted

Yea I just wanted to throw in the Cliffs Notes because some people don't want to read the CNN blog. Plus I myself haven't read all of it so I'm going through more sources while I can before I gotta leave
 
YA know, I looked in the CT section first before looking here just because I assumed I'd see a "false flag saudi ambassador" thread.
 
I heard it on the news a while ago. I was kind of chuckling that the State Department was saying it was potentially an "act of war" against three countries had they killed this man on US soil. The three were US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Yet when we do it, it's perfectly fine.

(i missed why they included Israel)
 
The IRGC-Quds Force have spent years training insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan to effectively kill and injure U.S. and host nation troops. Now they are sending sleeper agents into America in order to assassinate people.

Time for a cruise missile barrage.

An interesting note if true: the guy was apparently looking for a Mexican drug cartel member to carry out his dirty work, but was directed to a DEA agent. Maybe the pile of AKs we sent down there bred a little loyalty.
 
MelonyR said:
I heard it on the news a while ago. I was kind of chuckling that the State Department was saying it was potentially an "act of war" against three countries had they killed this man on US soil. The three were US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Yet when we do it, it's perfectly fine.

(i missed why they included Israel)
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I don't know if I understand you. Are you comparing the targeting of this diplomat to the targeting of Bin Laden?

As for Israel, the original stories I heard said that the agents were targeting both the Saudi ambassador and the Israeli embassy. Not sure if that's still the case.
 
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MelonyR said:
I heard it on the news a while ago. I was kind of chuckling that the State Department was saying it was potentially an "act of war" against three countries had they killed this man on US soil. The three were US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Yet when we do it, it's perfectly fine.

(i missed why they included Israel)
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When has the US targeted politicians and or ambassadors?
 
mikedenk said:
An interesting note if true: the guy was apparently looking for a Mexican drug cartel member to carry out his dirty work, but was directed to a DEA agent. Maybe the pile of AKs we sent down there bred a little loyalty.
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More likely the cartels aren't moronically stupid, and knew if they played in this it would come back to hurt them 1000 fold. Or the DEA people intercepted it first so the cartels never even got the offer. The AKs weren't supposed to get that far, weren't bribes, and thus couldn't have bought any loyalty.
 
Pardalis said:
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Iran denies it and says it's a U.S. fabrication.
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That goes without saying.
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Remember the moral of the story of the little Iranian who cried "Wolf"

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary - H. L. Mencken
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MelonyR said:
I heard it on the news a while ago. I was kind of chuckling that the State Department was saying it was potentially an "act of war" against three countries had they killed this man on US soil. The three were US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Yet when we do it, it's perfectly fine.
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I don't know if I understand you either. When nations do things to each other, there is no "perfectly fine". There's only "we're going to do what we're going to do" and "if you don't like it, do something about it".

Most of the time, nations choose to do something about it, just most of the time nations don't choose war. The US tends to avoid being at war, by giving other nations better options than going to war. But it's not really up to the US, whether other nations prefer war. So the US pushes its interests as far as it can, and exploits its leverage as much as possible, and treads carefully when it has to (which is probably a damn sight more often than it looks like, and than you might think).

But by the same token, it's not really up to Iran, whether the US decides to let this slide, use it for leverage in negotiations, or take it as an act of war and respond accordingly. The best Iran can do is offer counter-incentives, to balance their provocation.

ETA: tl;dr -- just because the US is sometimes aggressive towards other nations, that doesn't entitle other nations to a free bowl of "agression towards the US and its allies".
 
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False flag operation, to give Obama an excuse to start another war, just so he can get re-elected on the motto "Don't change horses in the middle of a war"?

No, that is too superficial. Besides, they busted the perp.

How about the DEA busting a terrorist, just to attain a higher profile? Anti-Terror is where the big budgets are these day...

So, DEA agent? terrorism bust? Entrapment thread starting in 3, 2, 1....
 
Try reading the indictment. 21 pages. I did. Got the link from a friend.

Doesn't pop up on a cursory Google, however. Need to find the link.
 
MelonyR said:
I heard it on the news a while ago. I was kind of chuckling that the State Department was saying it was potentially an "act of war" against three countries had they killed this man on US soil. The three were US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Yet when we do it, it's perfectly fine.

(i missed why they included Israel)
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Maybe it was a slip of the tongue: "Israel's so gonna get you now! We can't stop 'em! We tried playing good cop but...oops!"
 
angrysoba said:
Maybe it was a slip of the tongue: "Israel's so gonna get you now! We can't stop 'em! We tried playing good cop but...oops!"
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Part of it was a plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in the US.
 
Even though the attack was to have been on US soil, the main target was the Saudi ambassador. It will be interesting to see what course the Saudis want to take. Arabs vs. Persians How wide is the Straits of Hormuz?

ETA: About 30 - 33 miles (49 -54 km).
 
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