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Fast and Furious Scandal: New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels
GERARDO REYES and SANTIAGO WILLS ^ | 9/30/12 | abc

Posted on 09/30/2012 5:15:51 PM PDT by Nachum

On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.

Indirectly, the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers. Three of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to a Mexican army document obtained exclusively by Univision News.

Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
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To: Nachum

video of tonight’s broadcast on Univision

http://youtu.be/9Y1Zz3otzos


21 posted on 09/30/2012 6:49:51 PM PDT by RaceBannon (When Chuck Norris goes to bed, he checks under it for Clint Eastwood!)
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To: Nachum

Does Univision post their shows to the net and if so will this one be posted?


22 posted on 09/30/2012 7:19:52 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,)
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23 posted on 09/30/2012 7:23:33 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Nachum

youtube with closed captions?


24 posted on 10/01/2012 2:08:44 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (searching for something meaningfull to say)
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To: Nachum
Fast and Furious did no more to arm the drug cartels than the War On Drugs has done.
25 posted on 10/01/2012 9:57:05 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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