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Border face-off involved men in Mexican Army uniforms
CNN ^
| Jan 23rd, 2006
Posted on 01/24/2006 1:28:51 PM PST by laney
Men dressed as Mexican Army soldiers, apparent drug suspects and Texas law enforcement officers faced off near the U.S.-Mexican border after three suspicious SUVs attempted to flee state authorities, officials said Tuesday.
Andrea Simmons, an agency spokeswoman in El Paso, told The Associated Press that Texas Department of Public Safety troopers chased three SUVs, believing they were carrying drugs, to the banks of the Rio Grande during Monday's incident.
Men dressed in Mexican military uniforms or camouflage were on the U.S. side of the border in Texas, she said.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderpatrol; borderwar; bush; chertoff; freeperfetish; immigrantlist; immigration; meninuniform; mexico
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:28:53 PM PST
by
laney
To: laney
Men dressed as Mexican Army soldiers Whose side is CNN on? Next they are going to use the "Men dressed as terrorists" metaphor. These are Mexican Army troops until proved different by the Mexican Government!
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:31:48 PM PST
by
Ben Mugged
(Unions are the stormtroopers of socialism)
To: laney
"La Cucka Racha-La Cucka Racha" *dances around room erratically*
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:32:48 PM PST
by
catbertz
To: laney
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:34:06 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Exposing clandestine operations is treason. 13 knots make a noose.)
To: Ben Mugged
No, it'll be "Supposed humans dressed in wilderness colors".
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:34:08 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(What? Me worry?)
To: xcamel
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:35:36 PM PST
by
laney
(Layer's of Light)
To: laney
after three suspicious SUVs Other articles reporting on this same very same incursion have described those SUVs as military Humvees. Not every Mexican druglord has a bunch of Humvees in the fleet painted to look like they belong to the Mexican Army. That would be a little too obvious.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:37:19 PM PST
by
jackbenimble
(Import the third world, become the third world)
To: Ben Mugged
maybe the Border patrol could get a few Bradley's.
Wait - the national guard already has them !!!
Wonder if the governor will deploy them.
Or even a few Texas Ranger's with varmint rifles.
Coyote's still got a bounty on them.
To: laney
We say they're Mexican Army, the Mexicans say they're not. Thus if we shoot them, the Mexicans shouldn't throw a fit. We need to shoot a few and capture a few with their ID cards on them.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:43:28 PM PST
by
SampleMan
To: xcamel; laney
Those are all different news sources, and vastly different titles. It's reasonable to expect people to search for the identical story having been posted, but, IMHO, I prefer to see the story from multiple sources; I get more information that way. I realize some people disagree on this matter, but I don't think you can get on the poster for not searching. I personally only search for the exact title. If it hasn't been posted, it hasn't been posted.
I've seen individual FReepers complain about this, but never an Admin Mod.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:44:56 PM PST
by
andyk
(Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
To: laney
The Mexican government, army, and police have always been deeply involved in the drug trade. Things don't seem to have changed one bit since Vincente Fox took over from the PRI. He's just as corrupt as the rest of them.
So, presumably the army was covering them. They don't do that for the little guys, they do it for the drug lords of Medellin when a shipment comes through.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:45:00 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: laney
Time to put a Spectre gunship out there, doing figure eights overhead, waiting for something like this so they can "take care" of it by conjouring up one of those Texas "dust devils".
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:45:22 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: jackbenimble
And with M50 machine guns in military mounts. Sounds suspiciously like Mexican army to me.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:45:33 PM PST
by
Ben Mugged
(Unions are the stormtroopers of socialism)
To: xcamel
While you are correct that the base article has been posted five times (including this post), each post was from a different source.
While World Net Daily, Fox, and some local paper may be news to us here at FR. Until it makes CNN and the NYT, it is not "news" to the MSM.
The story making CNN's on-line news is a significant step. If the article makes the NYT then it is gospel to the MSM.
While the DEM's and the MSM's (I know, redundant) may think this is an issue they can use against GWB, they fail to realize that he is not running for office on 2006. What the house (which has tried) and the senate (which has not) do is more important.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:46:03 PM PST
by
fireforeffect
(A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
To: SampleMan
We need to shoot a few and capture a few with their ID cards on them.
We captured about 10 of them a while back (maybe within a couple of years). The State Department threw a fit, and we just gave them back. No big deal...
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:46:13 PM PST
by
andyk
(Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
To: catbertz
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:48:09 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
To: laney
I find it worse than appalling that our Government stands by and lets this happen. The Mexicans are committing regular acts of war. The inaction of our Federal Government (The Bush Adminisrtation) borders on Treason or perhaps is Treason.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:49:19 PM PST
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis)
To: Ben Mugged
Calling Blackjack Pershing.
(He chased them back to Mexico City and was ready to declare Mexico a US Protectorate)
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:50:04 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: BnBlFlag
..The inaction of our Federal Government (The Bush Adminisrtation) borders on Treason or perhaps is Treason.<<
I agree and I've had about enough of Bush's crap on this. Unfortunately, it will take a dead Border Patrol agent before a serious effort to deal with this is launched.
To: SampleMan
"We say they're Mexican Army, the Mexicans say they're not. Thus if we shoot them, the Mexicans shouldn't throw a fit." Bingo. This was my first thought.
This issue is already long past the stage where a little "international incident" might be in order.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:58:29 PM PST
by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
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