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This is from Scott Peterson at the CSM ..

Iran specialists who have followed the Islamic Republic for years say that many details in the alleged plot just don’t add up .. “It’s a very strange case, it doesn’t really fit Iran’s mode of operation,” says Alireza Nader, an Iran analyst at the Rand Corp .. “This plot, if true, departs from all known Iranian policies and procedures,” writes Gary Sick, principal White House aide during the 1979 Iranian revolution and hostage crisis .. Mr. Sick notes in a posting on the Gulf2000/Columbia experts list that he moderates, “it is difficult to believe that they would rely on a non-Islamic criminal gang to carry out this most sensitive of all possible missions.” [Sick says that] relying on “at least one amateur and a Mexican criminal drug gang that is known to be riddled with both Mexican and US intelligence agents” appears to be sloppy .. The Associated Press spoke to [the used car salesman’s] friend and former Texas business partner David Tomscha, who said he was “sort of a hustler.” The Iranian-American, the AP reported, “was likable, albeit a bit lazy.”

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