News Archive - 12 October 2011

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will bask in the glow of congressional approval of a long-delayed trade deal and coordinate strategy on the North Korean nuclear standoff when they hold talks on Thursday. Hosting Lee amid the pomp of a formal state visit,...

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States may have violated a U.N. treaty protecting diplomats and could escalate the crisis to an international court. U.S. authorities have arrested Iranian-American Manssor Arbabsiar for the alleged plot and accused a second...

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader and the shadowy Quds Force covert operations unit were likely aware of an alleged plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, but hard evidence of that is scant, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The United States does not have solid...

>* Iran denies plot, says allegation dangerous* U.S. officials: no hard evidence that Iran leaders knewBy Mark Hosenball and Parisa HafeziWASHINGTON/TEHRAN, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and the United States traded charges with Iran Wednesday over an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington, deepening divisions...

>The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said it was quite possible that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, did not know of the alleged plan to assassinate the ambassador, Adel al-Jubeir.Iran's supreme leader is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The United States on Tuesday disclosed what it said was a plot...

>VIENNA (Reuters) - A diplomatic storm over U.S. accusations that Iran plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington may throttle any slim chance of diplomacy resolving the long-running dispute over Tehran's nuclear program. "I wouldn't say that it is dead forever," said Gala Riani, senior Middle East analyst...

The alleged Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States is a “dangerous escalation” in Iran’s support for terrorism and must provoke an international response, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.

>TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday Iran would "pay the price" for what U.S. officials described as a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, while Tehran called the accusation a fabrication designed to sow discord in the region. U.S. officials said the elaborate plot...

>"It is an outrageous act where the Iranians are going to have to be held accountable," Biden told ABC's "Good Morning America" television program."It's an outrage that violates one of the fundamental premises upon which nations deal with one another and that is the sanctity and safety of their...

>U.S. authorities said on Tuesday they had broken up plans by two men linked to Iran's security agencies to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir. Iran denies the allegation."The United States and Saudi Arabia and other allies are discussing the possibility of taking this to the security council because...

Wall Street protests draw overseas, celebrity attention the associatEd press Published Oct 12, 2011 05:42PM MDT New York • The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has spawned grass-roots activities in Utah and around the the U.S., is drawing political remarks from overseas and attention from scores of celebrities.

>U.S. authorities said Tuesday that they had broken up a plot by two men linked to Iran's security agencies to kill the Saudi envoy, Adel al-Jubeir. One man was arrested last month while the other was believed to be in Iran.Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, echoing Iran's official stance,...

>LONDON (Reuters) - You couldn't make it up -- or could you? U.S. allegations that an Iranian spy outfit attempted to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington in a convoluted plot involving a U.S. informant posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel seem bizarre to say...

>* Sasol fears sanctions may be imposed on companyJOHANNESBURG Oct 12 (Reuters) - South Africa's Sasol , the world's top maker of motor fuel from coal, said it is reviewing its investment in Iran, which is facing sanction over its nuclear program, and has no plans for further growth in...

Will the Washington Bomb Plot Force Obama Into War With Iran?

Kuwait 2 MPs, former minister, trader in KD 87m money-wash probe

Devoutly religious people of the three major faiths–Christianity, Islam and Judaism–sometimes seem most hateful toward Queer Americans, those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or questioning.

The Obama administration is consulting with U.S. allies on how to respond to the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington. The Saudis may have their own ideas of what to do. Iran is a rival in the oil producing business, and some analysts suspect Saudi...

The Supreme Court will decide whether what anti-gay activist William Whatcott did and said should be illegal

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Brent crude fell to near $111 today, snapping six days of gains, after trade data from China pointed to slower demand in the world's second-largest oil consumer.

The Obama administration launched a campaign Wednesday to further isolate Iran after the disclosure of a foiled assassination plot on U.S. soil that officials said was backed by the Iranian government.

Would you buy a used car from this guy? Before the feds busted him in an Iranian military plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador in Washington, DC, Manssor Arbabsiar was a mullet-haired used-car salesman in Corpus Christi, Texas, who went by the nickname “Jack.” “I was very shocked...

Unheard of during the reign of Saddam Hussein and unthinkable during years of violence, an unlikely innovation is slowly being rolled out in Baghdad by Iraqis back from overseas: the one-stop beauty centre.

POLICE made just eight arrests in Luton on Saturday as protests involving the English Defence League and Unite Against Facism passed off ‘relatively smoothly’.

Tehran, October 11 (KCNA) -- Iran's Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani in a diplomatic appearance on Sunday called for boosting cooperation among regional countries.

TEHRAN - Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani is scheduled to pay a visit to Switzerland to participate in the 125th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly and related meetings which are to be held in Bern from October 16 to 19.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is heading to Indianapolis for a stop in which he'll be the latest Republican presidential contender to try to stake a claim on the state Barack Obama won in 2008.

After months of announcements, postponements, and global speculation news out of Iran as Deputy Science Minister Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri was quoted as saying, “The Kavoshgar-5 rocket carrying a capsule with a live animal (a monkey) was launched during Shahrivar [August 23 - September 22]. However, the launch was ...

Anyone in the business of studying violence should look askance at recent US claims that Iran’s Quds Force – a unit belonging to the Pasdaran, aka the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – is behind the amateurish plot to assassinate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador ...

The Obama administration slapped sanctions on an Iranian airline yesterday for sponsoring terrorism -- its first retaliatory action after the feds exposed a bizarre $1.5 million bomb plot to the kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US on American soil.The Treasury Department accused Tehran-based Mahan Air --...

In light of the amazingly dramatic reveal of an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. at his favorite DC dinner spot using a Mexican drug cartel gun for hire (calling Robert Ludlum!), I thought it pertinent to cite a recent Der ...

>SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude fell to near $111 on Thursday, snapping six days of gains, after trade data from China pointed to slower demand in the world's second-largest oil consumer. China, the pillar of global oil demand growth, saw its September crude oil imports down 12.2 percent on...

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WASHINGTON - The straight-out-of-pulp-fiction plot by alleged Iranian operatives to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington was so badly bungled that investigators initially were skeptical that the Iranian government was behind it, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

share: digg facebook twitter ARANSAS PASS — The man accused of scheming to kill a Saudi diplomat is described by those who know him as a scatterbrained, hapless businessman who in college earned the nickname “Jack” for his affinity for whiskey — hardly the type to mastermind a terrorist plot.

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to reconcile what it said was solid evidence of an Iranian plot to murder Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States with a wave of puzzlement and skepticism from some foreign leaders and outside experts.

WASHINGTON, DC - Intent on punishing Iran for a brazen alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil, the Obama administration is in diplomatic overdrive, urging countries around the world to cut whatever ties they still have with Tehran and "isolate" it from the international community.

MEXICO CITY (MCT) — The alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States has cast Mexico into the news as a potential staging area for a terrorist operation.

WASHINGTON -- Despite issuing harsh calls for Tehran to be held to account, the Obama administration does not plan to shift its policy of pressure on the Iranian government after disrupting what officials said was a plot to assassinate a Saudi Arabian envoy in Washington, administration officials said on Wednesday.

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TEHRAN, Oct. 12 -- Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Javad Oji said Wednesday that Turkey has asked Iran to increase its natural gas exports to its northwestern neighbor, the state IRIB TV website reported.

WASHINGTON -- His nickname was Scarface, the legacy of a brutal knife attack on a dark Houston street three decades ago that left his left cheek permanently marred. Friends and neighbors in Texas said that he could be gruff and intimidating, and that he often stood outside his house at...

By: Daniel Bentson In his new book 'Islam Without Extremes,' Turkish journalist Mustafa Akyol expresses his belief that the path to a democratic Middle East lies not in anti-clerical secularism but in the essentially ...

MS. NULAND: Afternoon, everybody. I hope you all got a chance to hear or see the Secretary’s speech at the Center for American Progress this morning on the importance of American global leadership. I have one quick thing at the top, and then we’ll ...

Protestors affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests chant outside 740 Park Avenue, home to billionaire David Koch and David Ganek, in New York, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. The crowd marched through out the Upper East Side neighborhood, protesting outside the homes of various millionaires and bank owners.

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(CNN) - GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Tuesday President Barack Obama took his eye off of what she referred to as the No. 1 issue in the Middle East: "Iran obtaining nuclear weapons." On CNN's "Erin Burnett Outfront," the Minnesota congresswoman also expressed concern over the Democratic-backed financial...

Once again, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya peels away the veneer of legitimacy and deception enveloping the U.S./NATO genocide currently taking place in Libya.

THE United States warned yesterday it would hold Tehran accountable after foiling an alleged high-level Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 12, 2011) - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement on the plot to assassinate the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States:

Mike Barnes A longtime partner of Bob Mackie, the Iran native won the first Emmy Award in his field. read more

WASHINGTON - The alleged Iranian plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington was "amateur hour," ...

Professor Akbar Ahmed hosted the three American hikers he fought to free from imprisonment in Iran. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images

American University Professor Akbar Ahmed hosted the three American hikers imprisoned in Iran for lunch Wednesday. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images

The money trail leads skeptical U.S. officials to believe that agents would have cleared plans to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador. Though initially skeptical that top Iranian regime figures were behind a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, U.S. government officials became convinced by the operation's...

Suspect arrested on Christmas Day flight confesses in court.

Lawmakers reacted with alarm Wednesday to the foiled bombing plot allegedly hatched in Iran. Read more...

Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry brought his campaign to Indianapolis today.   

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday an Iranian-backed terror plot coordinated in Mexico proves the U.S. must secure its southern border, an attempt to shore up his standing among Republicans on immigration...

Exclusive: The stupidity of the Republican presidential field seems to know no bounds, with Gov. Rick Perry’s putting the American Revolution in the 1500s and joining Rep. Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party in messing up the history of the nation’s founding, notes Robert Parry.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes Occupy Wall Street protesters have a right to freedom of speech at a Manhattan park, but not to keep the owners of the public space from cleaning it.

The alleged Iranian plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington was “amateur hour,” an unusually clumsy operation for Iran’s elite foreign action unit, the Quds Force, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

When White House officials first heard an informant’s report last spring of an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington, they found it implausible . They asked the same question we all have been puzzling over since the indictment Tuesday of the alleged plotters: If the Iranians planned such...

WASHINGTON - The alleged Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabias ambassador to the United States is a "dangerous escalation" in Irans support for terrorism and must draw an international response, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesd...

Mudslinging between the Middle East's two most powerful rivals is a longtime political fact of life. But it will likely escalate now with U.S. allegations of an Iranian-aided plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador in Washington, D.C.

The most sophisticated and organized terrorist organization operating in Mexico and the United States is Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim terrorist group and political party in Lebanon and sponsored by Iran. They want to wipe out Israel. Hezbollah got started in 1982 after the Israeli invasion into Lebanon. The...

KUALA LUMPUR: Natural rubber production in August dropped 4.5% month-on-month to 95,731 tonnes, according to the Statistics Department.

BECAUSE OF its large population and strong interest in the game, Turkey is regarded as one of Europe’s most lucrative television rights markets for major football matches and 12 years ago when Ireland were drawn against the Turks at the same stage of this competition the association took in around...

THE WAR of words pitting the US and Saudi Arabia against the Islamic Republic of Iran escalated yesterday following the US government’s revelation of a bizarre plot by an Iranian used car salesman living in Texas and the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington.

PETALING JAYA: Proton Holdings Bhd has denied reports speculating it may be looking at selling a stake in the company’s loss-making subsidiary Group Lotus to Genii Capital.

US government regulators cited oil giant BP and two other companies - Transocean and Halliburton - for alleged safety and environmental breaches stemming from last year's Gulf of Mexico rig explosion and massive oil spill. Related Stories Man charged in Hollywood hack probe US condemns Iran over 'terror plot' Defence...

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WASHINGTON - The White House says President Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah (ab-DUHL'-uh) have discussed a foiled plot allegedly masterminded by Iran to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington.

Although easygoing Texas used-car dealer seems an unlikely character in a murder plot, U.S. alleges his relative helped abduct and kill American soldiers in Iraq

The straight-out-of-pulp-fiction plot by alleged Iranian operatives to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington was so badly bungled that investigators initially were skeptical that Iran’s government was behind it, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Officials laying out the details of the case owned up to their early doubts about an...

Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud met Wednesday with Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Ghadanfar Ruknabadi to discuss ways of strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries, mainly in the field of tourism.

US and Saudi Arabia set to take matter to UN amid the White House call for more sanctions against Iran.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release Location:  James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:30 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  I apologize.  I know we gave the two-minute a little more than two minutes ago.  Something came up.         Q    What?  (Laughter.)           MR. CARNEY:  Nothing...

Manssor Arbabsiar, the American guy arrested Tuesday for the Saudi ambassador murder plot, has been all over Texas and you may have crossed paths with him.

The Associated Press The Associated Press Six people were killed and three were wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a hair salon in a normally sedate Southern California beach community, authorities said. The six deaths were confirmed and the other three victims were taken to a hospital in critical condition,...

Reporter's Note: The intelligence community in DC is buzzing over the discovery of an apparent murder plot hatched by Iranians. I assume the White House is also buzzing over my latest letter. Dear Mr. President, This news about the Iranians apparently plotting to attack the Saudi Ambassador to the U.

Six people were killed and three wounded in a shooting at a hairdressing salon in the Southern California city of Seal Beach, police said. Related Stories BlackBerry problems spread to US 19 held in Norway killings probe Man charged in Hollywood hack probe US condemns Iran over 'terror plot' Defence...

Southern California authorities say six people have been killed and three wounded in a shooting at a hair salon in the city of Seal Beach.

President Barack Obama's presidential campaign is accusing former Massachusetts ... With a nation deep in debt and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, the ...

American Global Leadership at the Center for American Progress Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC October 12, 2011 MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome back, for those of you who were with us yesterday evening and this morning. I think we’ve had a tremendous conference. We’re tremendously honored to...

The alleged Iranian extremist accused of plotting to kill a Saudi envoy on U.S. soil lived for years as a used-car salesman and businessman in the Texas beach town of Corpus Christi.

President Barack Obama's presidential campaign is accusing former Massachusetts ... With a nation deep in debt and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, the ...

President Barack Obama's presidential campaign is accusing former Massachusetts ... With a nation deep in debt and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, the ...

The United States is moving to further isolate Iran after accusing elements of the Tehran regime of being involved in an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador on US soil.

If you've been watching the new ABC-TV series "Pan Am," you probably get the feeling that the life of a stewardess back in the '60s was full of adventure, luxury, and glamour.

Herman Cain calls race a "non-issue," says he can siphon black votes from Obama.

President Barack Obama's presidential campaign is accusing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney of changing his positions on taxes, health care and China trade in what could be a preview of the 2012 presidential campaign.

Some members of Congress are saying an alleged Iranian assassination plot amounts to an act of war. The Obama administration has already placed new sanctions on Iran, but is not considered likely to pursue military action. read more

WASHINGTON/LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) The International Energy Agency cut its global oil demand growth projection on Wednesday while the U.S. government increased its outlook for 2012, making it the most bullish forecaster as the economy heads into an uncertain year.

Protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began in New York City's financial district and has since spread to hundreds of cities around the country, call themselves "the 99 percent": They say they're protesting on behalf of all but the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.