Iranian Terror Plot: Fake, Fake, Fake (But Who Faked It?) By Maidhc Ó Cathail

Iranian Terror Plot: Fake, Fake, Fake 

(But Who Faked It?)
By Maidhc Ó Cathail
October 12, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- In his latest Antiwar.com piece,
Justin Raimondo asks some of the questions that mainstream reporters
never seem to think of asking (or if they do, these doubts don't ever
make it past their more credulous editors):

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!" 

But Raimondo then gets a bit distracted in looking for the source of plot: 

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. 

In passing, however, he does locate the more obvious source of any anti-Iranian propaganda:

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. 

In contrast, Raimondo's readers have a more clear-eyed view of the affair. One comments:

I
don't believe a word of it. The Zionists who control the State, Justice
and Homeland Security Departments have fabricated this event to egg the
USA on to invade Iran for the sake of Israel security. And the typical
Zionist media, CNN, Fox and others, will play it for all its worth.
Unfortunately most Americans just don't understand how manipulated this
"greatest government on the earth" is and will likely believe it at
face value. Schumer and Kantor will step right up to the plate. In 30
years, when our ties to Israel have bankrupted the nation (Iraq,
Afghanistan, Iran, who knows where), we will look back and see just how
we have been used by our best friends in the Middle East. With friends
like that, who needs enemies. 

Another is even more perceptive:

The
script for this "plot" was probably hand-delivered direct from AIPAC to
Holder. As soon as I heard that, btw, the Israeli embassy was targeted
for bombing also, I knew the whole thing was bogus – not that the other
inconsistencies and absurdities weren't enough but this was the
giveaway line. Israel must be getting really desperate to think that
something as badly concocted as this was going to pass the smell test.

As FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III so aptly put it, the whole thing "reads like the pages of a Hollywood script."
 
Maidhc Ó Cathail is an investigative journalist and Middle East analyst. http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/ 

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