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And Now Back To The Real News: Saudi Arabia Blasts Iran, Verbally For Now

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Ignore Slovakia: everyone has a price. This is the real news:

  • RPT-SAUDI EMBASSY IN U.S. SAYS PLOT IS "DESPICABLE VIOLATION" OF INTERNATIONAL NORMS
  • SAUDI OFFICIAL SAYS IRAN PLOT TO ASSASSINATE SAUDI AMBASSADOR "IS NOT GOING TO PASS EASILY"

And logically:

  • IRAN REJECTS AS "PRE-FABRICATED SCENARIO" US ACCUSATION ON TWO IRANIANS ALLEGEDLY PLOTTING AGAINST SAUDI ENVOY - STATE TV

And now Hil joins in, via AP:

An alleged Iranian plot to hire Mexican drug cartel killers to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States on American soil "crosses a line" in Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism and will further isolate the Islamic republic, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday.

 

"This really, in the minds of many diplomats and government officials, crosses a line that Iran needs to be held to account for," Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview. She said the plot - it allegedly involved Iranian government agents trying to contract a Mexican cartel to kill Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir - was stranger than fiction.

 

"The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?" she said in a nearly hour-long, wide-ranging interview with AP reporters and editors.

 

Speaking shortly after the Justice Department announced the uncovering of the alleged plot, Clinton said the scheme "creates a potential for international reaction that will further isolate Iran, that will raise questions about what they're up to, not only in the United States and Mexico."

 

She said both she and President Barack Obama were calling world leaders to inform them of the developments.

 

"We are actively engaged in a very concerted diplomatic outreach to many capitals, to the U.N. in New York, to not only to explain what happened so we can try to pre-empt any efforts by Iran to be successful in what would be their denial and their efforts to try to deflect responsibility but so that we also enlist more countries in working together against what is becoming a clearer and clearer threat" from Iran, Clinton said.

 

"We want to reassure our friends that the complaints against Iran are well-founded," she said.

 

As she spoke, Alizreza Miryusefi, the press attache at Iran's mission to the United Nations, said the accusation was "totally baseless" and that a full statement would be issued shortly.

Take home: Talk is cheap but Brent here is even
cheaper
... Either way, it is a win win for Saudi which needs crude to go up, up, up.

 

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Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:30 | 1762948 Parth
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Its not feasible to goto war against Iran as it has strong control in Iraq. It was be a catastrophe destroying all the US/UK gains in Iraq and setting of more trouble in Bahrain and Saudi. Neither can Iran up the ante as they do not have a good military to stand upto a really pissed USA. They will just sabre rattle so as to get the US of their back and settle some scores with Saudi.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:32 | 1762950 reader2010
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The problem is that Iran's got our oil underneath their land. Fuck it.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:32 | 1762955 kito
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markets dont think much of this. crude oil down. insane world

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:57 | 1763268 Arkadaba
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I find that kind of interesting. Maybe the market also thinks (or knows) it is total BS

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:33 | 1762956 zorba THE GREEK
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If this doesn't divert attention from the inept administration, the next thing to expect is an attack

from outer space aliens.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:34 | 1762961 marcusfenix
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Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview. She said the plot - it allegedly involved Iranian government agents trying to contract a Mexican cartel to kill Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir - was stranger than fiction...

could that be because it is fiction?


 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:37 | 1762966 ZackAttack
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This story reeks of bullshit.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:46 | 1762984 jmc8888
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Mexican drug cartels? 

Did someone forget that Fast and the Furious was caught red handed and they called broken arrow?

So Mexican drug cartels, Fast and the Furious, and the weapons of mass destruction fireworks factories in Mexico seem to be enough of a reason for a joint operation into Mexico?  Only to idiots, or a bad sequel to Canadian Bacon.  What's this going to be called.  Mexican Burrito?

We could invade....or someone could find Machete.

Glass-Steagall

 

Oh yeah, maybe now there will be a proxy war...guess where...why the country in between them, Iraq!  Probably not, but wouldn't surprise me.   Like our idiots won't use such an excuse not to leave Iraq.

 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:08 | 1763029 Bokkenrijder
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Wolf Blitzer & Co on CNN Int. have already reached a "guilty" conclusion.

Can anyone say "Gulf of Tonkin?!"

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:51 | 1763032 GoldbugVariation
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Stinks of false flag. The news story has the same characteristics as on 9.11.  Detailed and precise complete story released from an impeccable official source, names the names of all the actors involved, makes it obvious who we are supposed to blame.  (On 9.11, a news release around 1 hour after the "attacks" named Osama bL and Mohammed Atta as the conspirators, said that Mohammad Atta's passport (!) had been found in the debris at the (totally destroyed, burned and buried in thousands of tons of rubble) World Trade Center site - http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=43653.)

Real news stories have a heavy element of uncertainty when they start, as news agencies and journalists scramble to find out the facts.  Real government agencies do not release details of ongoing investigations, not least because it might compromise sources or prejudice potential future trials of the conspirators.

Damn MSM, I blame them for giving credibility to this shit.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:55 | 1763051 Bokkenrijder
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Well, they obviously need an excuse to attack Iran, or pave the way for the Israelis to go ahead with the silent approval of the Saudis.

What was it again that those Mayans said that was so important about 2012...?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:15 | 1763118 mynhair
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The MSM is credible?  How's that rock you live under?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:53 | 1763045 lizzy36
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You know the comments here (kudos to all because mostly LMAO at them) and ones i see elsewhere sum up the sad state of affairs that is the US government.

I have yet to see anything but mocking of this "terror plot".

The sad thing is people are really starting to question the credibility of the US government and it is a mere hop, and a leap until its legitimacy also starts being questioned.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:08 | 1763100 CompassionateFascist
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ZOG has "legitimacy"? From who? Podhoretz? Murdoch? Bernanke? Geithner? Kristol? Krauthammer? That's about it.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 20:06 | 1763540 Problem Is
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Looking at the clueless idiots running the place...

If you had reactionary morons running Canada... Oh wait, Harper....

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 17:54 | 1763050 samsara
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Fact:  Saudi's need oil above $80+  or their national budget doesn't balance.

Fact: An unbalanced budget means less payoffs to the populus

Fact: Less payoffs to the people means overthrow possiblities

Fact: Eric Cantor will tear into Ron Paul tonight about his AntiWar stance

Fact: the news cycle is under control...

Hillary said "We want to reassure our friends that the complaints against Iran are well-founded,"

Have we Ever lied to you before? 

(forgetting of course, Aluminum Tubes, Mobile Bioweapon Labs, WMDs, besides them I mean)

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:14 | 1763115 azzhatter
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At least we know where the zeta's buy their weapons

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:16 | 1763121 mynhair
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It isn't real until Crammer screams 'buy'!

Crap, that's everyday.

It must be real.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:28 | 1763165 sheeple2012
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Except around 1100 S&P when he said not to even think about any stock that doesn't yield 5%... now he's foaming at the mouth about how Cat and Cummins have full order books...lol clown

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:23 | 1763144 ??
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I think I heard a report earlier of a foiled plot by Iran against DC and now this

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:30 | 1763171 inkarri9
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Didn't WikiLeaks leak some US Gov't documents about how the royal Saudi family was stealing billions a day or two ago?  I don't know all the facts behind this plot to kill the Saudi embassador but this all seems suspect.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:40 | 1763199 nyse
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Stop talking and do something already.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:43 | 1763206 ThisIsBob
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Is tjhis going to be another case of a couple of idiots and a van full of FBI giuys?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 18:48 | 1763224 Hannibal
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Something smells in Boston!

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:12 | 1763334 mt paul
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wish Iran

had contacted me first..

 

could use the work..

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:18 | 1763338 Shizzmoney
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Wow, if we go to war fast enough we may just contain this economic crisis, at least for a while longer!  Great news!

 

this, I lol'd 

 

Actually, on a another conspiracy note, interesting this gets released on night of one of the most important 2 debates in Republican Primary circles (NH/Iowa).

 

Cue the war-mongoring!

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:16 | 1763353 Hephasteus
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Bill Clinton should know all about mexican drug dealers. You drug dealing piece of shit.

The day your army trained drug dealers have more credibility than iran is the day people watch your pathetic ass 100 dollar 9/11 commerative coin commercials and laugh their fucking heads off at how silly you look.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 20:02 | 1763529 Problem Is
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Ahmadinejad heard high quality automatic weapons were easily had from Mexican drug cartels thanks to Eric "Empty Suit" Holder's "Fast & Furious"...

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:27 | 1763404 Bagbalm
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Iranians should announce this was in retaliation for Saudis carrying out the twin towers hit.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 20:00 | 1763522 Problem Is
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HaHaHahahaha-hah-ah-ha...

I lke that...

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:35 | 1763441 mainuh1
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LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!! Time for the rockets red glare. The U.S. Navy should have some "fun" tailing those Iranian ships off the U.S. coast.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:39 | 1763459 nyse
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Odd. Not one mention of stargates. "You can't make this stuff up, can you?"

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:42 | 1763467 anyways
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How desperate TPTB are. If it wasn't so sad, i would laugh out loud. And yes, in fact, that's obviously a PRE-FABRICATED SCENARIO. Fuck them both.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:43 | 1763471 Randall Cabot
Tue, 10/11/2011 - 19:57 | 1763507 Problem Is
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"was stranger than fiction."

"she said in a nearly hour-long, wide-ranging interview with AP reporters and editors."

Because IT IS FUCKING FICTION...

Distraction for the Sheeple
Illegal assassinations... Talk about the Pot (US Fascist Government) calling the kettle (Iran) black...

Sheeple: Look over here at this outrageous Iran boogeyman story...

Wall Street Says: "Bailout My Bonus!!"
Don't look over here at Wall Street looting, TBTF bailouts and the imploding economy and the fact that the useful idiot Obama Bin Lyin' is responsible...

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 20:15 | 1763567 cherry picker
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Does anybody believe this shit anymore?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 20:21 | 1763588 Tompooz
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The oil market is still laconic because the demonizing of Iran hasn't reached its crescendo yet.

Hilary's diplomacy first has to test the reactions of America's allies to a "foiled" assassination.

If the result is positive, the next step is a plot that is not foiled... 

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 20:24 | 1763595 Problem Is
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Nobody's Buying it Bullshit Barry and Hag-Ball Hillary
We want your bags packed and your ass out of the White House by midnight January 19, 2013...

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 21:52 | 1763964 PulauHantu29
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Total 100% BS. I don't believe anything these Gumbos say. Plus, it makes zero sense that Iran would pull this crap.

More likely his SA bros are trying to out him.

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 22:18 | 1764072 Vuvuzela
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it;s getting serious

'You have crossed the line': Clinton vows action over Iranian plot to kill Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil and bomb Saudi and Israeli embassies

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047939/US-foils-Iran-terror-plo...

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 23:20 | 1764296 Scalaris
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Everyone knew that this was bound to happen sooner or later, but I think that the world was expecting an at least more elaborately plotted false flag. This is straight to DVD, at best.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 00:26 | 1764444 heatbarrier
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Reminds me of "Wag the Dog", .... we want you to produce, "Fast and Furious" team to the rescue,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-FXkj-r9Mc

BTW, Tyler, what's with the Slovakia tag?  Albania perhaps.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 00:43 | 1764497 JOYFUL
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"The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?"

I bet if your name was Tony Blair and somebody paid you enough you could. 

btw...what do you call a totally wacked out conspiracy theory when the state dep or foreign office produce it?....front page news.


Wed, 10/12/2011 - 01:31 | 1764565 Encroaching Darkness
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Let's see.. the I'm-a-dinner-jacket fanatic believes part of his divinely-ordained job is to produce the "instability" (that will result in the return of the hidden, or Twelfth Imam, who disappeared down a well back in ancient times) and bring on the End Times.

Our government believes in the Right to Rule (as conferred in perpetuity by elections they miscount and misrepresent) until the End Times.

Various European elites believe in welfare programs that last forever, cost nothing and can be maintained by smoke and mirrors beyond the End Times.

Various other societies believe in their ultimate ruling roles as predestined by the march of history, backed by their superior populations, or whatever once the End Times arrive.

The space-alien archaeologists that excavate the ruins of this world will find enough data to confirm the hypothesis that the whole race went stark, raving mad and murdered each other until the species imploded.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 02:21 | 1764634 michigan independant
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No the long range scanners indicate lethal isotopes and cockroach investation.

Wed, 10/12/2011 - 08:46 | 1765069 mantrid
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Mexican drug cartel

so, time for humanitarian aid in Mexico! Perry's rushing to it. they really have to help Mexicans get rid of Libertads.. erhm... drugs I mean.

 

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