Many of you may be aware of the most recent “terror plot” discovered in the US:
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/11/us-ties-iran-to-assassination-plot-in-fbi-sting/
A brief summary: a US/Iranian dual citizen was arrested on charges of plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador in the US by hiring a Mexican hitman from the infamous Los Zetas drug cartel living in Texas. The only proof offered for this plot is a US $100,000 bank transfer to the aforementioned hitman (who, conveniently enough, turned out to be a DEA informant). Now I won’t even start to mention all the things that make this like a plot of a comedy about bumbling terrorists, from the supposedly “evil mastermind” (an absent minded used car salesman) to the fact the money transfer originated from a bank account “used” by the Quds branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (when all financial activity between Iran and the US are strictly forbidden: US banks won’t accept money coming from Iran).
Given what’s known about Iran it’s pretty sure they are too smart for such a bumbling act. They are are very adept at covering up their tracts, very efficient and usually don’t operate too far from home. Also what if the plot had actually succeeded (I know, I know, but bear with me here)? In a matter of days they would have been at the recieving end of a bombing campaign, with invasion perhaps following a few months later. There have been all kind of talks about a “splinter cell” in the Revolutionary Guard but then why bother? They could have hit Saudi and US interests much closer to home, in countries housing a sizeable Shiia population, usually quite sympathetic to the Iranian cause.
Which leaves us to the old Roman Law principle of cui bono. There are quite a few interested parties which will benefit from this fiasco worthy of the Pink Panther films. The hawks in the Obama administration, Israel, Saudi Arabia… you name them. Unless more proofs surface it will be very difficult to trace the real culprits. Whoever the perpetrators were they displayed a perfect knowledge of US politics, usually neurotic about everything regarding Israel and the Holy Crusade Against Drugs. They knew the plot didn’t need to have any chances of going anywhere or even be remotely believable to anyone with more than seven functioning brain cells: all it needed to do was to contain the words “Iran”, “terrorist”, “Mexican drug cartel” and “Washington DC”. They got their money’s worth for a measly hundred grands.