Pearls from CSIS: 'Maybe the Iranians want to punish Al Jubeir because maybe they read Wikileaks!'

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"... "It is conceivable to me that somebody saw some of the comments that the ambassador made in WikiLeaks about Iran that he attributed to the king and said the way to do this is we could punish the ambassador," he says.... Jubeir used a particularly evocative phrase, says Alterman. "Ambassador Jubeir told American officials that the king of Saudi Arabia told you to 'cut off the head of the snake.' That refers to a potential attack in Iran," Alterman says..."