Posted on 10/12/2011 3:10:00 PM PDT by PhilosopherStone1000
retaliation against Iran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
Asked whether using force was a possibility, the Democratic lawmaker told reporters: "I don't think anything should be taken off the table at this point in time."
"There are a lot of options, they've all got to be discussed very carefully. I think the first thing to do is analyze all of the evidence very carefully," said Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The senator said key lawmakers on the Senate's Intelligence, Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Foreign Relations Committees were scheduled to receive a briefing from President Barack Obama's administration on the alleged conspiracy.
Kerry said lawmakers would assess "what the layers of knowledge are" in Tehran about the alleged plot.
US officials on Tuesday said they had charged two Iranians, one of them a dual US citizen, with preparing to carry out a bomb attack on the Saudi ambassador under a plan "conceived, sponsored and directed from Iran."
The US Justice Department accused the Quds Force, a special forces unit incorporated in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, of being involved, based on testimony given by one of the Iranians who was in US custody.
The other Iranian, said to be a member of the Quds Force, was at large and believed to have left the United States, according to US authorities.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon
Why doesn’t this loser, kerry, get out of his car with the 4PH license plates and throw someone else’s medals over the White House fence???? Oh, wait a minute...he already did that. What a putz forever. Wasn’t he in Viet Nam? Where is his DD214 he promised...
Didn’t he get a purple heart for a hand nail after he nominated himself?
That is entirely possible.
In this case I would lean toward it being the best fitting shoe at the time of "need."
They had this thing wrapped up, no way they are getting away with it. There is so much hard evidence against this guy Manssor Arbabsiar, car salesman, it is pathetic.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/11/timeline-plot-to-kill-saudi-ambassador/
Cruse through that info. Do you see anything there worth starting a war in the ME that will go nuclear?
But that is exactly where little bammy wants to go.
The United States will apply the "toughest sanctions" to further isolate Iran over the alleged plan to murder the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Barack Obama said on Thursday, despite growing skepticism over the amateurish nature of the plot and the apparently shambolic nature of the main suspect.
Obama repeated the US line that he would not take any options off the table in dealing with Iran, which is diplomatic code for the possibility of military action.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/13/obama-us-toughest-sanctions-iran?newsfeed=true
Apparently quite a number of folks are not buying off on the theme that this was a "go to war" level event.
They follow with a description of the "mastermind" from a personal friend of his.
But Tom Hosseini, a friend and former roommate of Arbabsiar's, questioned his ability to carry out the plot and told the New York Times: "His socks would not match. He was always losing his keys and his cellphone."
Hosseini said when he last saw his friend two months ago, Arbabsiar told him he had been in Iran and was "making good money."
US officials concede that the plot and its alleged mastermind are unusual. ''We would expect to see the Quds Force cover their tracks more effectively,'' one official told Reuters. Another said a plot to launch a violent attack inside the United States was ''very outside the pattern'' of recent Quds Force activities.
Kenneth Katzman, an Iran specialist at the Congressional Research Service, said there were elements of the alleged plot that did not make sense.
''The idea of using a Texas car salesman who is not really a Quds Force person himself, who has been in residence in the United States many years, that doesn't add up,'' Katzman said.
''There could have been some contact on this with the Quds Force, but the idea that this was some sort of directed, vetted, fully thought-through plot, approved at high levels in Tehran leadership I think defies credulity,'' he said.
So, who is Kenneth Katzman? Some Obama flunky? NOPE.
Kenneth pre-dates bammy and is very much the go-to guy in this arena.
Kenneth produces reports like this.
Right now I have a mental image of this thing being little bammy is a 9 year old kid with a loaded M-16, safety off, in a crowded room, thinking about what is going to happen to him regarding F&F.
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