Posted on 05/29/2010 6:35:42 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Men Were Eating At Food Stand When They Were Shot
EL PASO, Texas -- Deadly violence in Juarez broke out just yards away from an international bridge Friday.
Five men were killed shortly after noon at the foot of the Zaragoza bridge on the Mexican side of the Ysleta port of entry, according to ABC-7's news partner XHIJ Channel 44.
The men were eating at a food stand when they were shot. The youngest victim was just 19 years old, while the oldest was 58.
Police found 38 shell casings from high-power rifles. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection told ABC-7 traffic was not interrupted at the bridge.
One man said he saw people running everywhere as the killers sprayed the area with bullets.
shocking, I’ll tell you
The wages of blogpimping.
Oh wait.. wrong thread.
And yet, it didn't slow bridge traffic meaning the US side didn't bother checking if the shooters headed north.
The borders are secure! Janet says so!
Well as long as cross border traffic is ok , Mussalini won't care...........you know that and the trains running on time.
get use to it
It is really too bad we don’t have anyone around Ft. Bliss of the likes of General “Black Jack’ Pershing. The outlaws and the bandits used to head south across the Rio Grande with Pershing after them breathing down there necks. Now they are getting real close to the border, next you know they will be on this side of the river pulling the same crap.
The good news is that's four less than last week.
Rifles are inert tools. It's the ammo that is or isn't 'high-powered'. Oh well...
I ate at a Mexican food stand once, and I was down for several days. Up and down.
On the one hand, this is terrible.
On the other, it’s less that can come here.
Whaddya gonna do?
“38 shell casings from high-power rifles.”
I would love to know what .38 caliber and what high-power rifles used the .38 caliber cartridge in the shootings. Those two are not normally connected together.
When I first read it, I thought the same thing.
38 is the number of casings, not caliber.
That was a neighborhood near you.
It's that frying pan/fire thing.
More from lovely Mexico:
May 30, 2010
Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) — A prison warden in the Mexican state of Morelos was abducted as he reported to work Saturday morning and his dismembered body was found later in four locations in the city of Cuernavaca, the government-run Notimex agency reported.
The warden was identified as Luis Navarro Castaneda, director of the Atlacholoaya prison.
Written messages were left with the body remains, Notimex said. The news agency did not report what the messages said.[snip]
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/30/mexico.warden.killed/index.html?eref=igoogle_cn
I have read where when General Pershing was going after Poncho Villa, that is when they first used motorcycles. Was your grandfather part of that deployment?
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