12/10/2011 12:23
US warned about the possible terrorism
Two men, including a naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran, were charged Tuesday in a terrorist plot "conceived, supported and directed" by elements of the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States while he was at a restaurant in the nation's capital, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.
He said the plot was foiled by U.S. drug agents in Mexico and a paid informant posing as a willing co-conspirator, recruited from the ranks of a drug-trafficking cartel.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the plot "crosses a line" in Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism and will further isolate the Islamic republic. Clinton said she and President Obama were reaching out to other countries to work against what is becoming a "clearer and clearer threat" from Iran.