international house: Is it because of our lax immigration enforcement? Now these individuals can operate within the US with relative impunity because they have to kill someone FIRST to get deported? But even if they commit a crime, if they have children, they are spared from immigration law? Home News U.S. Sport TV&Showbiz Femail Health Science Money RightMinds Coffee Break Travel Rewards Club News Home Arts Headlines Pictures Most read News Board My Profile Logout Login Find a Job Dating Wine Our Papers Feedback My Stories Monday, Oct 17 2011 6PM 19°C 9PM 20°C 5-Day Forecast U.S. condemns Tehran after foiling plot to assassinate Saudi ambassador on American soil using a Mexican drug hitmanIranians offered $1.5m to fake Mexican cartel for bomb plot Saudi ambassador would have been killed in Washington DC restaurant blast Bombs would later have been set off at Saudi and Israeli embassies Down payment of $100,000 allegedly made Two alleged plotters named as U.S. naturalised citizen Manssor Arbabsiar and Iranian Gholam Shakuri Key Iranian official who 'co-ordinated the attack' named as Arbabsiar's cousin, Abdul-Reza Shahlai - a terrorist linked to deaths of five U.S. soldiers in Iraq 'Somebody in Iran will have to pay the price': Saudi Prince issues warning By John Stevens, Oliver Tree and Lee Moran Last updated at 12:56 PM on 12th October 2011 Comments (132) Add to My Stories Share An extraordinary terrorist plot has been foiled - which would have seen the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. murdered on American soil. Agents of the Iranian government reportedly offered $1.5 million to a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the assassination of Adel Al-Jubeir in a busy Washington DC restaurant. The terror plotters - who also planned to set off blasts at the Saudi and Israeli embassies in the city - told their Mexican contact they could provide 'tons of opium' to his gang. But their contact, to whom they allegedly wired a $100,000 down payment for the killing, was in fact an undercover U.S. informant. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the 'stranger than fiction' plot 'crosses a line' in Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism and will further isolate the Islamic republic. And a former chief of Saudi intelligence has said that 'somebody in Iran will have to pay the price' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-… May 24: Arbabsiar first meets someone posing as an associate of a drug trafficking cartel in Mexico, who was actually a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration informant codenamed CS-1. Arbabsiar asked about the informant's knowledge of explosives and explained he was interested in attacking a Saudi embassy. June 2: Arbabsiar returned to Mexico and held more meetings with the informant in late June and early July. He allegedly said his associates in Iran had discussed a number of 'violent missions' including the murder of the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Adel Al-Jubeir. July 14: Arbabsiar meets CS-1 again, they discuss plot details - how four men and a payment of $1.5 million are needed. July 17: The pair meet again in Mexico. CS-1 says one member of his gang has already carried out surveillance on the ambassador and they allegedly discussed bombing a restaurant in the United States where the ambassador frequently dined. August 1 and 9: Arbabsiar makes two overseas wire transfers 'totalling approximately $100,000' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-…|||Why? Plausible deniability. We are able to work with the Saudis, so the assassination would have disrupted our relations for a time. If the event occurred, they could blame the Cartels first, the Al Qaeda or some other terrorist organization. The inclusion of Israel's embassy just adds the ease of blaming Hamas or Hezbollah. The money link may peter out before it ever gets to the Iranian government, although it's hard to believe that that government didn't know about the money transfer. Perhaps though, they shot themselves in the foot because China and Russia worry about their own ambassadors.|||To prove they could.|||You really believed that obviously wrong childish story about Iran made by your Evil Government and pro-Israeli media?!!!!!!!!! Even most of your own countrymen have become awake enough to know that's a big lie about Iran to overshadow "wall street" protests, etc. Only naive people can believe such false news about Iran.... However,we Iranians never care a bit about what the US government says. As iran's envoy to the UN said: “We are used to the baseless allegations made by some US officials over the past three decades, but the big lie they have told today is so unfounded that it sounds like the work of Hollywood's scenario writers, it is a major insult to the intelligence of ordinary people in the US and the world.” 'Saudi plot, diversion from US protests': http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204383.html US playing the Saudi envoy game: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204218.html|||You actually believed the stories about WMD in Iraq too, didn't you? This is plainly part of a long term demonization protest to prepare the world for a US invasion of Iran next.