Color Me Shocked
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Oct 11, 2011 at 10:56pm
Wow, can you imagine?
Two men, including a member of Iran's special foreign actions unit known as the Quds Force, were charged in New York federal court with conspiring to kill the Saudi diplomat, Adel Al-Jubeir. Justice Department officials say the men tried to hire a purported member of a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the assassination with a bomb attack while Al-Jubeir dined at his favourite restaurant.
"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?" Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Who on earth would have predicted such a thing?
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Oct '11
Re: Color Me Shocked
Nicely done Claire, You saw this one coming a mile away. That big gust of warm air that just blew through? Holder's sigh of relief that at least the assassination wasn't going to be carried out with ATF "Fast and Furious" guns.
Jul '11
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What a sham this whole story being broken today is. Eric Holder will have to resign eventually but for now we should all focus on this issue instead of Mr Issa's scathing letter to him yesterday. What great timing.
Nice prediction though Claire and one whose implications will be with us for a while I fear. Whatever superficial changes our dismal administration makes will not be enough to address the policy problems regarding the many aspects of the middle eastern powder keg you addressed in your attached thread.
May '10
Re: Color Me Shocked
BTW, Claire, I heard Mustafa Akyol speak in southern California on Sunday at the Turkish fair (the "Anatolian Culture and Food" festival). Mustafa was effective and eloquent; he's clearly still pleased and surprised when Americans have started reading him in Hurriyet after your references to him. He had a decent case to make for guarded hope and he made it well.
Two audience members ruffled the crowd by pressing him on his personal characterization of the events of 1915. It was no surprise to Akyol, who quite obviously is not an apologist and deserves a great deal of credit for advancing the arguments in his book. They haven't made him wildly popular at home. The encounter between his brand of Turkishness and southern California deserves a longer look, which presumably he'll give us in Hurriyet in the next few days. If he finds his US trip noteworthy, I'll be interested in your reactions.
Oct '10
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Jun '10
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Sigh! Political assassination just another job Americans won't do.
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Why don't you poke around and see who sponsored that conference? I'll have time for the Gülen movement when Ahmet Şık is released from jail.
Feb '11
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Claire, any idea what role Venezuelan and/or Cuban intelligence may have had in fostering these relations? Also, what of MS-13 and Hezbollah connections?
Sep '10
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If you wrote this kind of thing in a novel, someone like me would say, oh, this is too much. Too unbelievable to work. ... I just hope it eventually ends up being a comedy.
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I've just read the complaint. Obviously, it's impossible to form a judgment, but something here isn't quite passing the smell test. Read it yourselves. It's a little hard for me to believe the Iranians could be quite so stupid.