"...the presence of special operations forces in Mexico “is really nothing new in terms of how we have dealt with Mexico in the past.”
"Since the task force operations have already been exposed, at least to the extent that narco-trafficking organizations are surely aware of their presence in Mexico, Plumlee [Willaim Robert "Tosh" Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot] says making known in the U.S. the information about Task Force 7 may actually help to protect its members, via that public sunshine.."
“Black operations have been going on forever,” the official says. “The recent [mainstream] media reports about those operations under the Obama administration make it sound like it’s a big scoop, but it’s nothing new for those who understand how things really work.”
In May, the SAS secret ops missions claimed exposed by General Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal recieved a complaint from UK's Director of Special Forces (DSF) after he was said to have broken the SAS's code of silence and spoke about the missions mounted by the SAS and their Royal Marines equivalent, the SBS, in Iraq and Afghanistan. The SAS has, in the past, proved to be unforgiving towards those who it considers to have broken the code of "omerta" (vow of silence) about its activities. General Sir Peter de la Billiere, commander of British forces in the first Gulf War, and a former DSF, also became persona non grata in Hereford after including a chapter in his memoirs about special forces operations.
Rules, promises & secrets are just made to be broken.
Anywhere near Belize? I heard some girl say her hubby or boyfriend ‘deployed’ to Belize... Isn’t that Nicaragua or something?
Bring the troops home from Iraq & Afghanistan and use them to seize a 2 mile wide buffer of northrn Mexico as a barrier.
Can someone tell me why dropping 10 daisycutters on the compounds of the top 10 drug dealers is a bad idea? I am open to the pros and cons of this...
The only problem with training the Mexican army in spec ops is that the Mexican army is in separable from the narco-terrorists.
just some TDY. It’s nothing we didn’t do back in the 60’s, 70’s,80’s. That’s what the School of the Americas was for. It was Army but occasionally other services might have been placed on TDY down south in the boonies of El Salvador or Guatemala.
I think its bs
The Gulf of Mexico is our lake. We go anywhere we please.
Feed the Mexicans, shoot the narcos (to paraphrase Lee Marvin).
I have to give mixed reviews to Narconews. They have a virtual monopoly in South of the border drug war news, and a near monopoly in news from Guatemala through central and South America. However, they also have a wildly left wing, and somewhat “Bolivarian” slant to what they write.
So they do get some very big scoops ignored by the US media, even after they break them. They keep an eye on US military and intelligence activities going on there, which have been and are substantial.
To say they have an “eclectic” mix of headlines is an understatement.
The plot of “Clear and Present Danger”?
Paranoia will make you crazy. Worrying about who to trust will mean lots of dead bodies and inhibited operations