Serious but amateurish: US describes Iranian plot (AP)

[TimesTen]

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111013/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_ambassador_plot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20111011/capt.bbc48d2db3714f50a13a1b3f891c2323-bbc48d2db3714f50a13a1b3f891c2323-0.jpg?x=127&y=130&q=85&sig=9NGocXQOWdWcZGtxeqeSMA--" align="left" height="130" width="127" alt="FILE - This May 16, 2003 file photo photo shows Adel al-Jubeir, then foreign affairs adviser to the Saudi Arabian crown prince, during a news conference at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington. The Obama administration on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 accused agents of the Iranian government of being involved in a plan to assassinate al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the United States. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - 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 as further stranger-than-fiction details emerged of the assassination gone wrong.</p><br clear="all"/>

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