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| Joe Smiga's book was published well before this past week's Iranian terror plot was unveiled by the Obama administration. This gripping novel seems to predict the Iranian plot and serves as a warning of things to come. |
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| Manssor Arbabsiar, the Iranian-American at the center of the plot |
U.S. Disrupts Iranian-Backed Plot to Kill Saudi Ambassador -Brian Bennett
Members of an elite Iranian security force planned to detonate a bomb at a busy Washington, D.C., restaurant, killing Adel Al-Jubeir, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. and possibly over one hundred bystanders, according to court documents filed in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. The plot was infiltrated by a Drug Enforcement Agency informant posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel. The plotters planned to pay a member of the Zetas cartel $1.5 million to carry out the attack.
An Iranian-American, Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, has been arrested in the case and confessed to the charges. An Iran-based member of the secret Quds Force unit of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Gholam Shakuri, was also charged but is not in custody.
(Los Angeles Times)
Iran's Terror Plot a Sobering Wake-Up Call -Editorial
The Department of Justice has charged that "factions of the Iranian government" plotted to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. by blowing him up inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant. Had it succeeded, this would have constituted an act of terror by the Islamic Republic of Iran on U.S. soil, and arguably an act of war.
(Wall Street Journal)
Is Exposure of a Direct Iranian Plot to Launch Terror Attacks in Washington DC A Turning Point?
-Barry Rubin
What’s most important here is not the innate sensationalism of this dramatic story, but its political implications. An Iranian official -- perhaps two according to the indictment -- is directly linked with a plan to stage terrorist attacks on American soil in which Americans would certainly have been killed or injured.
This amounts to an act of war.
[Pajamas Media]
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4 comments:
It is good our terror intelligence has been so good lately. This would have been a terrible event that could have led to the politically and financially unpalatable need for military action.
Yes, credit can be given to US intelligence forces...but I wonder if the reason this occured is because Iran perceives President Obama as weak and unlikely to retaliate with military force...?
I doubt that. It became very clear from the way we have handled the Iran for many years that we were not looking for another Iraq in Iran, not where the general populace is perceived to be more supportive of their government and might take to the streets against our forces. We did not get the Iraqis dropping roses at our feet but they did not assault us either. And surely they see we can lead a targeted attack against a target---bin Laden and Al-Awlaki better than ever before.
I pray you are correct.
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