Posted on 07/17/2011 7:00:53 PM PDT by neverdem
The lawyer for Jaime Zapata's family says U.S. officials refuse to answer questions about whether the weapons used were linked to the Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
Five months after U.S. immigration agent Jaime Zapata was shot to death by a Mexican drug cartel, his family is demanding to know whether the weapons were purchased in the United States and smuggled into Mexico under the now-defunct Fast and Furious operation.
The family complains that U.S. authorities in Washington and Texas have refused to answer crucial questions about the Feb. 15 ambush on a four-lane highway in northern Mexico.
"What happened with Jaime needs to come out," the family's lawyer, Raymond L. Thomas of McAllen, Texas, said in a telephone interview Sunday. "And the likelihood that these were Fast and Furious guns is certainly plausible."
Mexican authorities have announced nine arrests in the high-profile case. Among them was Jesus Rejon Aguilar, a Zetas cartel leader who was captured near Mexico City this month.
In Washington, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is seeking information on the Zapata slaying.
Nelson Peacock, assistant secretary for legislative affairs for the Department of Homeland Security, which...
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Zapata, a 32-year-old Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent, was based in Laredo, Texas. He and fellow agent Victor Avila were on the Pan-American Highway in Mexico when they were stopped by at least eight men in two vehicles. The Americans identified themselves and the attackers opened fire, killing Zapata and wounding Avila.
In March, ATF officials in Texas told reporters that one of the weapons believed to have been used in the assault — a Romanian-made AK-47 — was bought in October at a Texas gun shop. The shop purportedly sold 40 firearms that wound up with the Zetas cartel...
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They're still pretending it was rogue gun dealers, and not a rogue federal operation.
They'll prosecute one of the gun dealers they told to sell the guns. You watch.
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Oh man, I was waiting for a Texas gun shop or show to be implicated in this mess.
Mexicans consider Texas to be northern Mexico, well as far as I am concerned anything south of the big river is south Texas.
Somebody involved in this project needs to go to prison, maybe several somebodies. This whole thing is aimed at keeping us from getting our hands on weapons legally.
Looks like the Mexican drug cartels are well-armed with ObamaGuns.
U.S. officials refuse to answer questions about whether the weapons used were linked to the Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.That's a yes.
And let’s not forget MS-13 gangs in Honduras, also armed by 0bama’s “Stimulus Bill.”
Omoslem is stimulating lots of murder.
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I do believe Obama is about to be sued, and these folks will surely have standing?/s
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http://www.nachumlist.com/gunrunner.htm
Once again you place your foot in your mouth..in a box.
The source? President Barak Hussein Obama and AG Eric Holder and the BATFE.
Anyone who takes (or has ever taken) a dime of taxpayer money should be disenfranchised from 2nd amendment rights.”
That sounds pretty leftist. Are there any other rights you feel like doleing out to whomever you prefere?
Anyone who takes (or has ever taken) a dime of taxpayer money should be disenfranchised from 2nd amendment rights.”
That sounds pretty leftist. Are there any other rights you feel like doleing out to whomever you prefere?
” ... at least eight men in two vehicles. The Americans identified themselves and the attackers opened fire.”
I have an idea: let’s locate the bad guys, round `em up, fly them to Afghanistan or Iraq and then sic a Predator on `em.
(If only they were Talibani .... )
On second thought, come and get em!
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