The assassination was never going to take place. On
Tuesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller described Iranian American Mansour
Arbabsiar's alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the
United States as straight out of a "Hollywood script." In a sense he was
right—because the plot was controlled from the beginning by the FBI.
According to the criminal complaint, when Arbabsiar traveled to Mexico
in May 2011, to allegedly find an assassin from the ranks of Mexican
drug cartels, he ended up talking to a paid DEA* informant who dodged
drug charges in exchange for cooperating with authorities. In keeping
with previous sting cases, the FBI was careful to record statements from
Arbabsiar dismissing the possibility of numerous civilian casualties,
something that makes an entrapment defense all but impossible to mount.
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