there is a possibility that the US gov is fabricating the incident, but not likely
otoh, propaganda and demonizing the enemy is sop for warmongers On Oct 12, 11:03 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Iranian Terror Plot: Fake, Fake, FakeNot even good propagandabyJustin > Raimondo, October 12, 2011 > Fake, fake,fake– I’m talking about the latestanti-Iranian propagandacoming > out of Washington, which claims the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were > involved in a “plot” to take out the Saudi ambassador to the US and blow up > both the Saudi and Israeli embassies. The narrative reads like a formulaic > melodrama: two Iranians, one a naturalized US citizen, purportedly approached > someone they thought was a member of a Mexican drug cartel – according tothe > indictment[.pdf], it was a “sophisticated” drug cartel, not the plebeian sort > – and proposed paying him $1.5 million to murder Adel al Jubeir, the > Kingdom’s ambassador in Washington – oh, and by the way, the Iranians > supposedly said, “Are you guys any good with explosives?” > The key to understanding just how fake this story is can be found in theNew > York Timesreport, whichinforms us:“For the entire operation, the government’s > confidential sources were monitored and guided by federal law enforcement > agents, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District, > said in the news conference. ‘So no explosives were actually ever placed > anywhere,’ he said, ‘and no one was actually in ever in any > danger.’”Translation: the whole thing is phony from beginning to end. > This is another one of US law > enforcement’smanufactured“anti-terrorist”triumphs, where the fedsset somebody > up,fabricate a “crime”out ofthin air, and thenproceedto “solve” a case > thatnever really existedto begin with. This has been the general pattern of > our “anti-terrorist” operations in the US since the beginning – because > finding and catching real terrorists is much too hard, at least forour > Keystone Kops. Instead of going out and actually, you know, looking for the > Bad Guys, and then apprehending them, they lure some unsuspecting Muslim > immigrant into a trap, and spring it when the time is right. > The long narrative spun by the indictment tells us everything but what we > really need to know, which is: how is it that these two Iranian “terrorists” > just happened to meet up with a Mexican drug cartel assassin who just > happened to be a longtime DEA informant? I guess that would be giving too > much away: far better to spice up the story with scary details, such as the > conversation between one of the alleged plotters and the informant, in the > course of which the former says “If you have to blow up the restaurant and > kill a hundred Americans, well then f*ck ‘em!” > The credibility rating of this story, taken on its face, is close to zero. > Let’s say the Iranians really were plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador on > American soil: would they contract it out to theMexican Mafia, send all kinds > of traceable money wires from Iran to the US, and not care if they killed a > hundred Americans in the process of achieving their goal? Or would they send > some fanatic, who would not only do it for free but also eliminate himself > (or herself)? This flimsy cock-eyed tale is sotransparentlyfakethat it’s an > embarrassment to the United States of America. Can’t our spooks do better > than this? > This fabrication marks a new trend in the field of anti-Iranian war > propaganda. Previously, the War Party was relying on the same technique > theyusedinthe run-upto theinvasion of Iraq: the old “weapons of mass > destruction” gambit. The big problem with that is it’s old, and tired:no one > believes it anymore[.pdf]. Once burned, twice shy, as the saying goes. This > latest lie is a fresh angle on a continuing theme, merely substituting Iran > for the traditionalbogeymanknown as al-Qaeda. > That this story involves the Mexican drug cartels, and Attorney General Eric > Holderproclaimingthat we’re going to “hold the Iranian government > accountable,” has got to be some kind of sick joke: after all, here is a man > whostood by and watchedwhile US law enforcement agentslet gunstravel over the > US border to arm thosevery same cartels. Is this “coup” for the Justice > Department the pay-off for that harebrained scheme – and when is Holder going > to be held accountable? > That our government would float a narrative like this without any apparent > regard for thebasic rules of fiction-writing– create believable characters > who do believable things – is Washington’s way of showing contempt for the > Iranians, the American people, and anyone else who stands in the way of their > war agenda. They don’t care if it’s not believable. They think Americans will > swallow anything, that we’re too busytrying to surviveday-to-day, these days, > to inquire much further than the “official” account. And of course > ourbrain-dead media, which is reduced to a chiefly stenographic role, isn’t > going to ask any inconvenient questions. > This story is very scary – not because it’s credible, or believable, because > it is neither. However, it’s the most frightening story I’ve heard in quite a > while because it shows that the US government is bound and determined to go > to war with Iran, no matter what the consequences. Throwing caution to the > winds, our rulers have decided to go all out against Tehran – all the better > to mask our current economic malaise under the damage done by thetripling and > quadruplingof oil prices. This way, Obama can blame our crashing economy on > Tehran, rather than his owndiscreditedpolicies – and sideline the > Republicans, who have beencriticizing himfor being “soft” on Iran. > The making of American foreign policy is all about domestic politics. By > preparing the country for war with Iran, Obama will not only defang the GOP, > but also appease theall-importantIsrael lobby, which has beenbeating the war > drumsforyears. > What Obama and his gang are hoping is that the American people are tootired, > toobeaten down, and <a... > > read more » -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
