Sharmine Narwani "The Saudi_Iranian Assassination Hoax?"

[snagglepuss]

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I have been staring incredulously at my TV screen these past few hours as the story of Iran’s alleged assassination attempt of a Saudi diplomat in Washington unfolds in dramatic increments.

Reporters keep repeating the theme “like out of a Hollywood script” as they eke out increasingly unlikely details about this “terror” plot.

My immediate thoughts? Ah. So this is how Washington intends to overrule objections to its $120 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab dictatorships of the Persian Gulf.

Forget Hollywood. If I channeled the worst of Washington’s Mideast policymakers, past and present – say, a John Bolton.

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The most interesting aspect of this military-sponsored exercise is the timing – it took place less than three months after the onset of the Arab revolts that swept the Mideast.



http://mideastshuffle.com/category/arab-awakening/

[leveymg]

1. It's like calling the "underwear bomber" the "Nigerian bomb plot"

In both cases, this was a U.S. sting operation that got blown out of proportion and could have led to the loss of American lives. In neither case would the alleged terrorists have even taken any steps, much less gotten anywhere near carrying out their schemes, had it not been for overly-zealous US counter-terrorism operatives and political types who want to make political hay out of the incidents.

Dangerous political theater, in both cases.

[GeorgeGist]

2. By the time the plot unravels ...

a new shiny thing will be riveting our attention.

They do make this shit up as they go along.

[DirkGently]

3. Clearly we must bomb something flat immediately. Facts TBD.