Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the U.S. has stopped a plot instigated by certain factions of the Iranian government. The goal of the plot was to bomb both the Israeli and Saudi Arabian embassies and to kill the ambassador from Saudi Arabia. Mainstream news is covering the details, so I’ll skip those, but I wanted to highlight exactly what the spokesman (named Ali Akbar Javanfekr) for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:
“I think the U.S. government is busy fabricating a new scenario and history has shown both the U.S. government and the CIA have a lot of experience in fabricating these scenarios and this is just the latest one,” he said. “I think their goal is to reach the American public. They want to take the public’s mind off the serious domestic problems they’re facing these days and scare them with fabricated problems outside the country.”
Maybe I simply don’t have the right mindset, but this seems a little farfetched. Even assuming (and this is a big assumption) that the White House or Congress wanted to distract the American people with a fake attempted terrorist plot, exactly how would they carry this out?
To foil a plot, one must first prove that the plot existed with evidence, such as phone records, purchases of suspicious material (things to make explosives, for example), vehicle rentals or purchases, etc, etc, etc.
Therefore, it would follow that the government either is:
1) Hiring people to do the suspicious actions mentioned above thus providing the evidence required
-or-
2) The people investigating the plot are fabricating evidence, meaning that multiple people in the FBI and DEA are developing a fake script, reports, evidence, etc., and then sticking to it.
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“I think the U.S. government is busy fabricating a new scenario and history has shown both the U.S. government and the CIA have a lot of experience in fabricating these scenarios and this is just the latest one,” he said. “I think their goal is to reach the American public. They want to take the public’s mind off the serious domestic problems they’re facing these days and scare them with fabricated problems outside the country.”
Maybe I simply don’t have the right mindset, but this seems a little farfetched. Even assuming (and this is a big assumption) that the White House or Congress wanted to distract the American people with a fake attempted terrorist plot, exactly how would they carry this out?
To foil a plot, one must first prove that the plot existed with evidence, such as phone records, purchases of suspicious material (things to make explosives, for example), vehicle rentals or purchases, etc, etc, etc.
Therefore, it would follow that the government either is:
1) Hiring people to do the suspicious actions mentioned above thus providing the evidence required
-or-
2) The people investigating the plot are fabricating evidence, meaning that multiple people in the FBI and DEA are developing a fake script, reports, evidence, etc., and then sticking to it.
Please take the poll below and/or leave a comment to share your opinion.
Sources:
CNN. (2011, Oct. 11) Live blog: FBI, DEA thwart terror plot in U.S., involving Iran, officials say. CNN.com. Retrieved Oct. 11, 2011 from: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/11/official-fbi-dea-disrupt-terror-plot-in-u-s-involving-iran/?hpt=hp_t1
Fox News. (2011, Oct. 11) U.S. Ties Iran to Assassination Plot Against Saudi Diplomat on U.S. Soil. FoxNews.com. Retrieved Oct. 11, 2011 from: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/11/iranians-charged-over-terror-plot-in-us/
CNN. (2011, Oct. 11) Live blog: FBI, DEA thwart terror plot in U.S., involving Iran, officials say. CNN.com. Retrieved Oct. 11, 2011 from: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/11/official-fbi-dea-disrupt-terror-plot-in-u-s-involving-iran/?hpt=hp_t1
Fox News. (2011, Oct. 11) U.S. Ties Iran to Assassination Plot Against Saudi Diplomat on U.S. Soil. FoxNews.com. Retrieved Oct. 11, 2011 from: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/11/iranians-charged-over-terror-plot-in-us/
