Suspect in Saudi ambassador assassination plot pleads guilty
By CNN's Mark Norman
An Iranian-American man from Texas on Wednesday pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to participating in a plot meant to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
Prosecutors said Manssor Arbabsiar, 57, tried to recruit a Mexican drug cartel to bomb a Washington restaurant where Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir dined. But the scheme unraveled when Arbabsiar's cartel contact turned out to be an undercover agent.
Arbabsiar acknowledged in court to conspiring with members of the Iranian military in the formulation of the plot and is expected to be sentenced in January.
Federal officials say Arbabsiar met "on a number of occasions in Mexico with a Drug Enforcement Administration confidential source."
Posing as an associate of a sophisticated and violent international drug cartel, the source, called CS-1 in a federal complaint, was hired by Arbabsiar and his cohorts to assassinate the ambassador.
Arbabsiar, according to federal officials, explained to CS-1 that once the ambassador was killed, more assassination projects would be in the works.
Attorney General Eric Holder said earlier that the plot had been endorsed by parts of the Iranian government, but Iran has denied any involvement.
Arbabsiar's defense team could not be immediately reached for comment. It has said that he "suffers from undiagnosed and untreated bipolar disorder," according to a statement from Dr. Gregory B. Saathoff, a psychiatrist retained by prosecutors.
Saathoff earlier determined that Arbabsiar did not have a mental illness that would have impaired him from consenting to questioning by authorities.
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Mansour Arbabsiar pled guilty of plotting assassination of Saudi Ambassador back in October. Sentencing was scheduled on 23 January, but no news....
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