Of course everyone is ready to hear all sorts of comments about how it's conveniently false. But how hard is it to imagine that these types of things actually happen?
Why do you think governments have all kinds of crazy special ops teams in the first place?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/iran-terror-plot-reminds-washington-of-the-old-days-of-cloak-and-dagger/2011/10/11/gIQAIwWndL_story.html?hpid=z2

“Being the national capital adds a lot of prestige,” added the onetime head of the Senate Intelligence Committee and former 9/11 Commission member, “but also an element of clandestine behavior.”

For decades, Washington’s cloak-and-dagger operations have taken place in congressional cloakrooms, with knifey senators careful not to leave fingerprints. But the hits here weren’t always metaphorical.

In 1941, Walter Germanovich Krivitsky, a former KGB agent who had defected to the United States and written critically of the Soviet Union, was found dead in Washington’s Bellevue Hotel.

In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House chamber from the overhanging Ladies’ Gallery, wounding five members of Congress.

In 1976, agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet assassinated Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar, an economist and diplomat who had taken refuge in Washington at American University and as a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. In Washington, Letelier spoke publicly against Pinochet’s regime and lobbied Congress to block loans to the dictator. Pinochet’s agents killed him and his assistant with a car bomb in Sheridan Circle.

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According to the complaint unsealed Tuesday, the Iranian government set in motion an international conspiracy to pay killers $1.5 million to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir. Two Iranian operatives, linked to the elite Quds Force, sought to hire two men with ties to Mexican drug cartels to attack, among other things, the Saudi Embassy.

But the men turned out to be confidential sources for the Drug Enforcement Administration. The FBI said it monitored the movement of cash through a New York bank to Mansour Arbabsiar, a naturalized U.S. citizen, who was arrested Sept. 29. The other suspect is at large. The State Department said the suspects were never in possession of explosives.

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U.S. officials were similarly surprised last month when an Iranian admiral threatened to send naval ships to patrol off U.S. waters.

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The United States on Tuesday accused Iranian officials of plotting to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States in a bizarre scheme involving an Iranian-American used-car salesman who believed he was hiring assassins from a Mexican drug cartel for $1.5 million.

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fireworks_god said:

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U.S. officials were similarly surprised last month when an Iranian admiral threatened to send naval ships to patrol off U.S. waters.

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Iran certainly seems edgy on account of the progress on the anti-ballistic missile shields that will be pointed specifically in their direction.

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fireworks_god said:

Of course everyone is ready to hear all sorts of comments about how it's conveniently false. But how hard is it to imagine that these types of things actually happen?
Why do you think governments have all kinds of crazy special ops teams in the first place?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/iran-terror-plot-reminds-washington-of-the-old-days-of-cloak-and-dagger/2011/10/11/gIQAIwWndL_story.html?hpid=z2

“Being the national capital adds a lot of prestige,” added the onetime head of the Senate Intelligence Committee and former 9/11 Commission member, “but also an element of clandestine behavior.”

For decades, Washington’s cloak-and-dagger operations have taken place in congressional cloakrooms, with knifey senators careful not to leave fingerprints. But the hits here weren’t always metaphorical.

In 1941, Walter Germanovich Krivitsky, a former KGB agent who had defected to the United States and written critically of the Soviet Union, was found dead in Washington’s Bellevue Hotel.

In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House chamber from the overhanging Ladies’ Gallery, wounding five members of Congress.

In 1976, agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet assassinated Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar, an economist and diplomat who had taken refuge in Washington at American University and as a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. In Washington, Letelier spoke publicly against Pinochet’s regime and lobbied Congress to block loans to the dictator. Pinochet’s agents killed him and his assistant with a car bomb in Sheridan Circle.

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As if dictators and oppressive regimes are all smiles and sunshine, right?

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I think we should give them financial aid so they won't hurt us.

Shins said:

Iran has nothing to gain from something like that.

They are not stupid enough to do something useless like that.

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Iran, the unified country, or Iran, consisting of factions vying for power? There could be those to gain within Iran's power structure if the consequences favored them.

The hunch on the naval vessels makes sense to me, Seuss.

And, Icelander, I think that a swift fleet of drone strikes could pretty much settle the picture, concerning Iran. Probably the best way of dealing with them.

Shins said:

What would any faction have to gain?

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Iran, the unified country, or Iran, consisting of factions vying for power? There could be those to gain within Iran's power structure if the consequences favored them.

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What would any faction have to gain?

come on man quit drinking the kool aid and leave the war drum circle jerk already.

forget Iran, factions IN THE USA have WAY BIGGER THINGS TO GAIN FROM THIS FALSE INTEL.

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The forum is down the hall, on the left. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. 

(Perhaps you would like to back up some of your "captain obvious" claims with a little hard evidence rather than a bunch of appeal to emotion BS?  Oh wait, I forgot, that isn't how the conspiracy crowd work.  Never mind....)

GazzBut said:

Remember the "wmds" in Iraq? Do you Remember how you believed? Easier to forget? Easier to hate? Easier to live in fear being lead around by the nose like a sheep?

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When all of that was happening, I really wasn't paying attention to begin with, so I don't know what to tell you.

Icelander said:

Why them and not Pakistan???

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That's like asking why Libya and not Syria.

Shins said:

Iran has nothing to gain from something like that.

They are not stupid enough to do something useless like that.

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fireworks_god said:

Icelander said:

Why them and not Pakistan???

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That's like asking why Libya and not Syria.

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Icelander said:

Why them and not Pakistan???

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Read this and thought of your question.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/us-drone-strike-kills-haqqani-insider/2011/10/13/gIQA5rT3gL_story.html

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani intelligence officials said a suspected CIA drone strike killed a Haqqani network insider in the northwestern part of the country on Thursday, in what appeared to be a direct hit on the Afghan militant group that the United States says is aided by Pakistan’s premier spy agency.

The strikes came as the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc Grossman, arrived in the capital, Islamabad, to try to improve relations with Pakistan, which have gone from bad to worse amid escalating U.S. allegations of Pakistani support for the Haqqanis. Pakistan denies that it helps the group, but the army has also repeatedly refused to initiate military offensives against it.

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