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Lt. Col. Bill Cowan discusses Iran’s recent attempts to kill the Saudi Arabian Ambassador in the U.S and the decision to remove troops from Iraq.
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-- built colonies of Fox News contributor international acknowledged expert in there is a terrorism.
You know number recovering corps officer.
-- -- current account Mario the more I'm -- I'm doing fine nicely with -- And soul of this sub.
That this plot for this for the news there or any of to -- -- Saudi ambassador right.
Polaroid -- care.
-- -- -- Well no I mean I mean certainly we care because we have some reasonably the Iranians want to do something.
In -- inside of our country so we always have those threat.
Security concerns but.
I've and I think there's -- -- story just been revealed yet this whole thing is still a little bit strange to me I mean the Iranians are very professional.
Very professional they don't make too many mistakes when they're running clandestine operations in the -- from start to finish.
Looks like comedy show almost when it comes to assassination or finding people to do things for you.
Working with the drug cartel may be.
Mean there's somebody errors throughout -- saying for an operator.
A serious operator to the stand back and look at that you have to wonder what was really going on here.
Is -- really quite what is being made out to me now does -- -- used car -- and taxes somewhere right.
Well that's right -- -- and why would they wanna go to some used car dealer.
In Texas I mean -- the Iranians are very effective at getting of people inside this country we have a lot of Iranians here.
Who travel from more and -- they have passports they can get around they can find other folks.
To go to a used car dealer who by all accounts of its brands is a little bit of a questionable guy anyway and to have him somehow bumped in -- An undercover informant down there in Mexico City there's there are just too many -- here that don't work a good.
Iranian operations officer high and the -- -- they're special ops people.
Or high and there intelligence services but wants to assassinate somebody somewhere is not going to run an operation the way that's what has been laid out to us.
-- home what do you think wasn't worker.
I don't know I'm in I mean you know I know sometimes I think our own law enforcement people -- -- -- entrap folks and I'm wondering.
How much of this may or may not have been entrapment and not that this used car dealer.
Would have had -- nefarious desires to do something here inside this country.
But killing the Saudi ambassador may not have quite been what it was He may have been -- I don't know but He may have been led into that.
I just know this is an operator our -- that operation together I want to started out with the used car dealer somewhere down in Texas that has started out right here in the nation's capital.
Where there's probably outlook or a of people that somebody could tap into the wanted to original and on talk -- -- vote on -- nonchalantly.
On the -- announcement -- -- -- all the troops is not run from Iraq but then there.
Is -- man and -- think that -- ev presents a big problem Boris not because we wanna have our men and women over there fighting.
My own son -- done two tours inside Iraq I don't want to necessarily to go back but the US presence -- much as we see in Korea much at least on.
Postwar Europe the US presence.
Provides some kind of stability that the Iraqis may not have on their own and the Iranians I think -- matter gonna try and play that to their best advantage so.
That the concern here is what's Iraq gonna look like in.
345.
Years it mean there's a lot going on over there right now that we never see in the media there's still a lot of lot of killing a lot of sectarian violence a lot of but dissatisfaction among Iraqis I spoke with an Iraqi friend over the weekend.
Who told me that a local -- an Iraqi -- 75%.
Of the people do not want.
The United States to -- because they fear the violence that will come about.
After the US has gone so maintaining that presence there they didn't have to be going out on operations all they needed to do was be there.
That provides -- stability that the Iraqis are gonna lose and the Iranians are gonna take advantage of on a country you think it'll be -- once related.
Well I'm an I mean this sectarian you know we watched during the -- during the battles they're -- -- war the sectarian violence was pretty big guy.
I tend to think give you look at -- the -- either prime minister.
He's been coddling cereal a little bit which is not our friend He certainly coddling Iran a little bit.
I take most of the people inside the parliament are afraid.
Muqtada Al -- name that you -- many of your viewers may recall he's a guy that has that Shiite militia had very strong very powerful well armed.
We fought major battles with them those guys are out there lurking right now.
And -- given -- still going on inside the country and again not reported widely here I think most people are fearful.
Of a of voting for of voting visibly voting from the US president to continue the most people in the legislature there.
And I I'm afraid 345 years from now Iraq is not going to be what we went and fought for it to be.
It's going to be a country still in turmoil and most likely aligned with the Iranians.
Soul and -- fact this whole thing was not -- the down -- involved.
-- and I you know I've been direct many times I admire respect and admiration for our young men and women is is over the top I can't say enough about him.
And and I hate to say that it was it all worth it but you know as I reflect back.
I wish if we're going to spend all this time and money and I don't wanna lose any blood.
We should just -- -- someplace that mattered we should have been working some out not in armed conflict may be but somehow against the Iranians there are true enemy.
In that region if somebody is gonna -- us forever we don't at some point do something as they continue on their march to build a nuclear weapon.
I wish if we could go back and do things over again for a -- march 03 up to the president we've been spending just as much time and effort.
Maybe down on the battlefield but in other manners working the Iranians trying to get Ahmadinejad -- there and help the Iranians come up with a democratic.
Redeem -- which is what most of them actually want themselves.
There are gonna bear publishing I actually come accounts autism honor and a pleasure to have -- on operation.
My privilege I'm in thanks for food and don't count -- on Imus weren't part of his rise he's absolutely on -- percent right there burning.
Certain says at least so absolutely there's some people -- accountable for prominent -- -- --
