Is Wikileaks Responsible for Iran's Latest Plot?

Written by David Frum on Friday October 14, 2011

Eli Lake asks: Was Iran's plot to murder Saudi ambassador to the US Adel-el Jubeir inspired by Wikileaks revelations?

If the Iranians needed a motive to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States they may have found it in a diplomatic cable leaked earlier this year by WikiLeaks.

In the April 20, 2008 cable, Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir relayed to America’s No. 3 diplomat in Riyadh that the Saudi king wanted the U.S. to attack Iran’s nuclear program. “He told you to cut off the head of the snake,” the cable quotes al-Jubeir as saying.

Lake quotes House intelligence committee chair Mike Rogers: "

He (al-Jubeir) was seen as one of the most vocal critics of Iran too.

Category: News Tags: Iran Plot Wiileaks