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Couldn’t Match His Socks

by Josh Marshall
10.13.11 | 7:00 am

Friends of Mansoor Arbabsiar, the man accused of trying to plan the assassination of the Saudi Ambassador, was so inept he could barely match his socks or remember where his mobile phone was. Not the sort, they say, who could have pulled off such a plot.

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