Is Wikileaks Responsible for Iran's Latest Plot?
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.