Scary Iran Plot: FBI Had No Need to Investigate Arbabsiar's Corpus Christi Past
So imagine this scenario.
A DEA informant calls up his handler out of the blue and says,
Omigod! Some crazy Iranian just approached me to arrange some kind of hit on behalf of this Iranian terror organization. He asked about explosives (I…
Did Duqu fix the bug that revealed Stuxnet?
Duqu isn't Christopher Lee in Attack of the Clones, but it is the newest computer malware to hit mainstream consciousness. It's attracting attention mainly because it is based on the same software source code base as the Windows portion…
Three Teenagers and a Journalist Attempt to Prosecute Bush for Torture
Bush is in British Columbia today, giving a $100,000 speech.
Three men first captured when they were teenagers--Hassan bin Attash (Walid's brother, who was captured when was 16 and remains in Gitmo), Muhammed Khan Tumani (who was captured…
Clinton, Petraeus Head to Pakistan for Talks While NATO Attacks Near Border
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus will be in Islamabad today for talks amid somewhat calmer US-Pakistan relations and to set the stage for a possible negotiated end to hostilities in Afghanistan. At the…
Obama's "Get Out of Jail for Helping 1.36% Card" for Banksters
Yesterday, I described how the Obama Administration was going to charge the banks just $8 billion for immunity from a whole new swath of crimes. Shahien Nasiripour has more details which make the deal look even shittier. First, the proposed…
Spy v. Spy, Terrorist v. Terrorist: All the Usual Suspects Now Implicated in Scary Iran Plot
Here in the Midwest, we've got lions and tigers and bears running around today, and even other animals, like monkeys, that aren't members of the NFC North.
In the Middle East, it seems everyone's rolling out the usual suspects to impugn in…
Ben Bernanke Prepares to Rob My Mom
My mom's pretty stubborn (I come by it naturally). So in spite of the fact that I have been warning her to move her primary banking out of Bank of America into a solvent bank for over a year, she has yet to do so.
Which is why I'm so troubled…
Karman Argues Against Amnesty for Saleh as al-Awlaki Family Continues Protests
As I wrote yesterday, the family of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, Abdulrahman, has spoken out against the US killing of these two American citizens, one just 16 years old, in separate drone strikes in southern Yemen. The birth certificate…
Obama Administration's Price Tag for Bank Lying, Predation, and (Probably) Securitization Fail: $8 Billion
Back when the foreclosure fraud settlement was purportedly only going to cover robo-signing abuses, the price tag was going to be $17 billion.
Now that the Obama Administration is desperately trying to craft a settlement deal to include origination…
Ron Paul Shits in the Saint Ronnie Punch Bowl
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At around 9:30 last night, I tweeted something I tweet everytime I watch an episode of the GOP Presidential Candidate Survivor show:
Once again, we've gotten to that point of the GOP Debate I hate where Ron…
Stealing Babies, in Franco's Spain and the Junta's Argentina
The stories exposing how Franco's government and the Catholic Church sold babies has gotten a lot of well-deserved attention.
The scale of the baby trafficking was unknown until this year, when two men - Antonio Barroso and Juan Luis Moreno,…
Why Did the Scary Iran Plotter Speak Directly from a Contested Treasury Department Script?
As I noted on Friday, Manssor Arbabsiar's cousin, Abdul Reza Shahlai, who purportedly directed him to arrange a plot with Los Zetas, was sanctioned by the Treasury Department in 2008, in part for involvement in an attack in Karbala.
Iran-based…
As al-Awlaki Family Mourns Abdulrahman, 16, US Develops "Kamikaze Drones" Targeting Single Humans
On Saturday, I wrote about a series of Friday drone attacks in southern Yemen. The most prominent of these attacks killed Ibrahim al-Bana, who is described as the media chief for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. This same attack,…
Telling Stories about What Iran Is Capable Of
As I've mused on twitter and in comment threads, I've started wondering who paid more for Scary Iran Plot, the US Government or (allegedly) Quds Force?
After all, it's clear that Narc offered up the idea to attack Adel al-Jubeir at a restaurant…
The Missing Dirty Bomb that Set Off the Chain of Death
Several days ago, I finished listening to Joby Warrick's The Triple Agent. It's quite good, both in terms of readability and news value. But since I have the Audible, not the dead tree, version I wasn't able to transcribe what I found to be…
Scary Iran Plot: Follow the Money
A number of people--from MadDog to the Administration--have claimed that the money trail in the Scary Iran Plot is what makes it credible.
I'd like to lay out what the Administration showed in the complaint--as opposed to in its predictable…
Details of Silicon-Tin Chemistry of Anthrax Attack Spores Published; Willman Tut-tuts
On Saturday, the Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense published an article (pdf) by Hugh-Jones, Rosenberg and Jacobsen that provides the details of their theory, first described in a McClatchy article, that the anthrax spores employed…
Scary Iran Plot: Making an International Case before Passing the Ham Sandwich Test
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War…
Put Down The Ducky Trash
Is another fine Saturday with a host of great college football games on tap. It's hard to get anything past the king of sports, ESPN, and they have chosen Autzen Stadium, home of the Oregon Ducks, as the site of their ESPN Gameday. Now there…
What Is the Source of Gholam Shakuri's Urgency?
I'm working on a big post that raises more questions about the government's interpretation of the Scary Iran Plot.
But for the moment I want to raise an issue that might provide a nugget of plausibility for the larger story. And that's Gholam…
