our correspondent adam brooks, i asked him what this means. >> it certainly makes a political statement it is important to say that the u.s. does not say that it has recalled him. the americans have not used them. they just said he has left syria for his personal safety. the implication is that he could go back at any point, but it is a political statement. washington is saying that the syrians, they believe, no longer have the ability to protect america's most senior diplomat in that country, so they are pulling them out, so it is a statement that shows that the u.s. is really losing faith in the government of president faÇade. >> and what about the paula of ambassador ford? >> they call it reciprocity. we have been told that the syrian ambassador has left washington. that means that neither ambassador is in the other's capital, and that means there is a significant lowering of the strength and importance of the channels of communication between washington and damascus, so this is quite important. >> adam brooks in washington. moving now to the developments in libya, reports are emergi

and for more on the latest developments, i enjoyed by the bbc's adam brooke. >> they say this was a plot like in a movie. a man according to the charge sheet met with people who he thought were mexican drug traffickers, and he tried to hire them as assassins. he tried to get the mexican drug traffickers to come to washington, d.c., and set up a bomb and kill the saudi ambassador. however, these men were not mexican drug traffickers. they were members of the dea, an american agency, and that man was arrested and is in custody. another man is also being charged, who is allegedly a member of a clandestine and oversees special operations force. it is being portrayed by the americans tonight as elements of the state of iran is sponsoring an assassination attempt against the saudi ambassador on american soil, which is, indeed, an extraordinary tale. >> as you said, all around the world, and global plot, and the director of the fbi robert mueller pointed this out himself. >> this case demonstrates that we live in a world where boundaries are increasingly irrelevant, a world where individuals fr

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