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  • Corpus Christi man pleads guilty in plot to kill Saudi ambassador

    10/17/2012 3:16:36 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 3 replies
    Caller-Times ^ | October 17, 2012 | Staff
    NEW YORK — A Corpus Christi man pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, agreeing to hire what he thought was a drug dealer in Mexico last year for $1.5 million to carry out the attack with explosives at a Washington restaurant. Manssor Arbabsiar, 58, entered the plea to two conspiracy charges and a murder-for-hire count in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where Judge John F. Keenan repeatedly asked Arbabsiar whether he intended to kill the ambassador. Arbabsiar, a U.S. citizen who holds an Iranian passport, said he did. Sentencing was set for...
  • Saudi envoy murder plot suspect pleads not guilty

    10/24/2011 8:28:07 AM PDT · by Cardhu · 1 replies
    ChicagoTribune ^ | October 24th 2011 | Reuters Staff
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Iranian-American man who U.S. officials say has links to Iran's security forces pleaded not guilty in federal court on Monday to plotting to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington in a bomb attack. , 56, who was arrested on September 29 in New York, faces several charges including conspiracy to murder a foreign official, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism. Another man, Gholam Shakuri, was also charged in the plot but is believed to still be in Iran. U.S. officials said he is a...
  • Crime bill hysteria [No, the Tories aren't 'Americanizing' Canadian justice]

    09/29/2011 6:28:57 AM PDT · by Clive · 4 replies
    Sun Media via Toronto Sun ^ | 2011-09-29 | Lorrie Goldstein
    Today let’s separate the sensible opposition concerns about the Tories’ omnibus crime bill from the absurd ones. It’s legitimate for the opposition to ask why the Conservatives are determined to pass this huge bill within their totally artificial deadline of 100 sitting days since taking office, since they have a majority government and almost four years to do so. The problem with omnibus bills is that in attempting to jam a wide range of legislation into one document, they often result in legislative blunders that would not have occurred if the bills had been scrutinized separately. That said, there is...