FBI/DEA thwart terror plot in U.S. involving Iran

[Stigmata]

What's the point of going "lol yeah Iran is dumb" when I show why the Mexican-cartel part of the story makes no sense? Tell me how it makes sense for a cartel to do what this story says they would, without succumbing to "they're dumb" - if they were dumb, they wouldn't be alive, murdering dozens of Mexican citizens, pulling their country's black- and gray-market economies around by the balls.

 

[unozero]

Well at this point I can only guess..but remember Stig the Iranian "Agent" never talked to the Mexican Cartel he thought he was but in fact he was talking to a DEA Agent...so yeah chances are the real deal like like Zetas and La Familia would have never agreed to do this.The DEA Agent was obviously stringing this guy along.
Makes alot more sense when you look at it that way also because almost every domestic terror plot ends up being one lonely Muslim guy and a group of FBI Informants stringing the suspect along till they can make a case.

Oh and sorry about earlier btw that was uncalled for.....

 

[Stigmata]

It's alright, I'm not mad anymore. Anyway, you 're correct, but by the same token can't you say it's possible this DEA agent is stringing along some part of the DEA by making up a fake Iranian agent as well? Falsified information in security agencies happens all the time, by the nature of all the internal disconnections they have. If he were paid some sum of money to do it, guaranteed immunity from backlash, never told but merely implied that it was from the hands of someone higher-up in the agency... I mean, for all we know he's the kind of guy who imagines himself a system-bucking vigilante helping America Fight the Good Fight. Maybe he'd do it.

 

[Eejit]

Well there was a 100k down-payment from a foreign bank account which the US authorities apparently believe (for some reason) to be linked to or under the control of the Quds.

Oh as for what the Zetas would have gotten out of it had the deal happened*, 1.5m is just the beginning:

Arbabsiar and the DEA informant also reportedly discussed bombing the Israeli embassy in Washington and the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Argentina, as well as opening Zeta trafficking routes for opium from the Middle East through Mexico.

*assuming reports are accurate

 

[Sulkdodds]

I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the slightly weird, shaky nature of the borderline entrapment that seems to have happened here. The whole 'plot' was from the beginning partly conceived and instigated by US agents, from what I understand of the case.

 

[unozero]

That may be true but they only started stringing him along after HE (The Suspect) made initial contact.

 

[Krynn72]

I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the slightly weird, shaky nature of the borderline entrapment that seems to have happened here. The whole 'plot' was from the beginning partly conceived and instigated by US agents, from what I understand of the case.

Thats a pretty common thing here in the land of the Free.

 

[JUL3]

So what, good news shouldn't be reported?

Would you describe making a thread on the HL2.net forums reporting though? The story certainly is good, well done FBI/DEA *pats back*. But, speaking in very general terms, generation of good conversation usually comes from the unusual or large scale events, which more likely than not is something bad. Evidence to support this is from the allegations of weed smoking and the ripping on of poor grammar that this thread consists of.

Anyway, me complaining about the lack of good conversation here is doing nothing to generate good conversation, so I'll shut my mouth.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah those insults are pretty unusual for a politically charged thread on these boards, good call.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

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