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bob baer, thank you for calling in. isha? >> i want to get mr. jordan, former ambassador to saudi arabia -- we haven't actually established contact with him yet. but i want to go to the white house, and bring in jessica yellin to get the latest as to what she is hearing billion this alleged plot. jessica. >> reporter: hi, isha. the president was first briefed on this in june. a senior u.s. official tells me that the u.s. will not tolerate a target on our u.s. shores. we should expect further steps to try to isolate iran and that the u.s. will work with international partners towards that end. we have multiple sources telling us that we should expect at the very least new sanctions against iran and we should expect something announced later today towards that end. of course, there could be further action at the security council as you have heard others say. what a senior official tells me is that they think this is an acceleration that will hurt iran not just here in the u.s. but overseas where it will not be looked upon fondly where they have att

lot easier, simply because our troops won't be in striking distance. >> interesting perspective, bob baer, john burns, robin wright, thank you very much. we're on facebook, follow me on twitter @andersoncooper. people weighing in on twitter. >>> up next, late new developments out of libya and a closer look at gadhafi's final movements. this new video that we've gotten today shows people hitting him, pummeling him about the head when he's clearly very badly wounded. what we're learning from the fighter who's captured him. >>> and stunning revelations how steve jobs fought the cancer that ultimately killed him. why he waited nine months to have the tumor inside him removed. how he finally turned to the best science that money could buy. why, in the end, it was not enough. dr. sanjay gupta explains when we continue. at a time like this, friends and family matter most. even preparing this lunch is a help, emotionally and financially. mm, it's true. i was surprised to hear there was no life insurance. funerals are so expensive. i hope larry can afford it. i know. that's why i'm glad i got a po

time.com intelligence columnist, bob baer, and robin wright, arab affairs analyst at the woodrow wilson center, the author of "rock the cas ba, rage and rebellion across the islamic world." john, let's start with you. were you surprised by this announcement and what do you make of it? what does it mean for iraq? >> well, i think the iraqis made it inevitable by resisting any legal ground of immunity to american troops. that's self-of evident. i do think that it has very ominous implications. i think a trip wire of a few thousand american troops combat capable if not actually engaged in combat could make the difference or could have made the difference in offering a sort of stabilizing factor for iraq at a period which is going to be fundamentally unstable. i think it's worth remembering that nothing politically has been resolved in iraq. all or almost all of the sectarian gee graphic, regional, religious, political, ideological disputes that have plagued the american presence in iraq remain unresolved. without american troops there as a guarantor of at least a final degree of stability,

lot easier, simply because our troops won't be in striking distance. >> interesting perspective, bob baer, john burns, robin wright, thank you very much. we're on facebook, follow me on twitter @andersoncooper. people weighing in on twitter. >>> up next, late new developments out of libya and a closer look at gadhafi's final movements. this new video that we've gotten today shows people hitting him, pummeling him about the head when he's clearly very badly wounded. what we're learning from the fighter who's captured him. >>> and stunning revelations how steve jobs fought the cancer that ultimately killed him. why he waited nine months to have the tumor inside him removed. how he finally turned to the best science that money could buy. why, in the end, it was not enough. dr. sanjay gupta explains when we continue. [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil®. here's one story. [ regis ] we love to play tennis. as a matter of fact it was joy who taught me how to play tennis. and with it comes some aches and pains and one way to relieve them all is to go right to the

or or to delegate a used car salesman in texas to carry out that kind of sensitive operation as bob baer former cia operative in the middle east who has dealt with. iranian issues and hezbollah issues in in the middle east over the years has said they're much more professional that so so that's kind of a of the first a question mark about this story and then there's a history here that i think we need to keep in mind and that is that the united states and saudi arabia and israel among the three of them have been responsible for two accusations against iran for carrying out alleged terrorist attacks in the past one rather two in buenos i raise in one thousand nine hundred two against the israeli embassy in one thousand nine hundred four against a jewish community center and then in one thousand nine hundred sixty four bombing the khobar towers. billet for servicemen killing a number of americans and not attacked. i have investigated both of the. those cases very carefully and have discovered that the official. the official version in both cases is highly misleading and the case that was m

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with us tonight, cnn contributor, tom fuentes and bob baer. sources telling you. >> he said it is like a hollywood plot and as we got additional details it is not only that but an incredible example of the sophistication and success of the fbi and law enforcement agents here. we know manssor arbabsiar flew in to mexico and was denied entry. it turns out we learned from senior counterterrorism officials he was denied by design. you would think he then flew to new york. you may ask yourself why didn't he fly to texas? that's where he and his family were living. because federal officials in the united states understood that under texas law he may not have been able to be held to do an intelligence interview. he was flown to new york. unbeknownst to the defendant, on the flight were federal agents. they took him in to custody and to a secret facility where he was held from september 29th until today. that's 12 days, john. each of those days he was interviewed by federal agents. each of those days before the interviews began he was given miranda wa

. >> bob baer, as we talk about this, and it is a spy novel in a court document, what's the next chapter if this is a spy novel? we don't expect the united states to have any military options against iran. yes, more sanctions. but anything off the table, covert, things we can't see that the united states or any ally could do to the revolutionary guard and the quds force? >> i'd go farther than that. i'd have a back channel with tehran right now. because if they were to make an attack on washington, d.c., or several attacks, that is an act of war. we have to get to that regime and ask them, what are they thinking about because it's not going to be expelling diplomats if one of these attacks happens. it may have to go after the regime and the quds force bases and the rest of it. there's no in between measures. this is very serious, all of this. >> fran townsend, adel al jubeir. the saudi arabia ambassador to the united states, just that title been, that's important, but he's more than that. a key foreign policy adviser to king abdullah and we have the shia/sunni tensions in iran. >> adel a

i mean it's entirely possible and bob baer and others are scratching their heads and rightfully so. this is sloppy operation. we've seen this in the other contexts of terrorism. guys who have aspirations but not necessarily a lot of capability. so, you know, there's a lot of internal politics going on in iran. a lot of contests for, you know, staking out turf within the iranian government. ahmadinejad is at crossways with the ayatollah. the ayatollah has close relationship to iranian revolutionary guard. the kuds are dimension of that. it is very possible could be hatched in the bureaucracy somewhere. that is the essential question. if the leadership blessed this operation and was openly supportive this has grave ramifications for the region and for the united states. jenna: our leaders here seem to suggest that they believe, they, administration, if you will and iran was a part of this. the attorney general says he will hold iran accountable. secretary of state hillary clinton says that the united states is going to send a strong message to this country. what exactly does that mean