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By Justin Raimondo
October 13, 2011
Fake, fake, fake ~ I’m talking about the latest anti-Iranian propaganda coming
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 to the 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 the New York Times report, which informs 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’s manufactured “anti-terrorist” triumphs, where the feds set somebody up, fabricate a “crime” out of
thin air, and then proceed to
“solve” a case that never really existed to
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 for our
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!”
Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi
Ambassador to the U.S
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 the Mexican 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 so transparently fake that 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 they used in the run-up to the invasion 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 traditional bogeyman known as al-Qaeda.
Attorney General, Eric
Holder.
That this story involves
the Mexican drug cartels, and Attorney General Eric Holder proclaiming that we’re going to
“hold the Iranian government accountable,” has got to be some kind of sick
joke: after all, here is a man who stood by and watched while
US law enforcement agents let guns travel over the US
border to arm those very 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 the basic 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 busy trying to survive
day-to-day, these days, to inquire much further than the “official” account.
And of course our brain-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 the tripling and quadrupling of oil
prices.
This way, Obama can blame
our crashing economy on Tehran, rather than his own discredited policies ~ and sideline
the Republicans, who have been criticizing him for 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 the all-important Israel lobby, which has been beating
the war drums for years.
What Obama and his gang
are hoping is that the American people are too tired, too beaten down, and too broke to care enough about
this latest exercise in war propaganda to question it. Certainly the
“mainstream” media, which is Obama’s loudest cheering section, isn’t about to
question it.
Here is where the
administration has probably miscalculated: people are just angry enough to
wonder “why now?”
They’re just broke enough
to resent being asked to pay for yet another holy crusade overseas.
And they’re just tired enough of the bullsh*t that
gets reported as “news” day after day to start asking all kinds of
uncomfortable questions about this latest offering by the Washington fable
factory.
The Americans are already
backing away from the assertion that
the Iranian government is directly responsible for the actions of these two
individuals, averring that top Iranian officials didn’t “necessarily” know what
was going on.
As the details of this
case become known,
Holder’s story is going to start unraveling
like a
substandard sweater.
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