Legal questions Follow Iran's 'Bizarre Plot'
Aljazeera / Hamid Dabashi
14-Oct-2011

Is a man described as having mismatched socks and constantly losing his cell phone really capable of carrying out such an intricate plot Is a man described as having mismatched socks and constantly losing his cell phone really capable of carrying out such an intricate plot involving Mexican drug cartels and Iranian military operatives? [GALLO/GETTYinvolving Mexican drug cartels and Iranian military op

Plot described by the US Attorney General sounds like a bad action movie, but why would he lie?

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Plot described by the US Attorney General sounds like a bad action movie, but why would he lie?

"Did an elite branch of Iran's military handpick a divorced, 56-year-old Iranian-American used-car salesman from Texas to hire a hitman from a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the ambassador to Saudi Arabia by blowing up a bomb in a crowded restaurant in Washington?"  

This is how Reza Sayyah of CNN quite succinctly summarised the bombshell that the US Attorney General Eric Holder dropped in Washington DC on October 11.  

I am of a certain generation and analytical bend of mind that I cannot believe that Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the Un... >>>

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