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Grenades, .50 caliber machine guns on U.S. border
WND ^ | Jan. 20,2014 | F. Michael Maloof

Posted on 01/22/2014 7:31:23 AM PST by SwinneySwitch

WASHINGTON – Mexican drug cartels are “killing each other” with .50-caliber machine guns and grenades just across the U.S. border with Mexico, sources have told WND.

The gun battles are occurring near Fort Huachuca, Ariz., which is the location of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and school.

The Army center is 15 miles from the Mexican border, but the installation runs up against the border.

A source associated with the center said that only a “three-strand barbwire fence” is keeping any spillover of heavily armed cartel members out of the compound.

Students at the post have had only basic training and haven’t handled weapons beyond the M-16, which shoots a 5.56 mm round, roughly equivalent to a .223 caliber, which is less than half the size of the .50 caliber.

The episode is the latest flare-up in what American ranchers living along Arizona’s southern border say is a virtual war zone.

Mexican drug lords rule in the U.S. border regions and “we’re living by the law of the cartels,” one American rancher said.

The ranchers recently blasted the federal government for failing them, warning that the chaos spilling from Mexico is “putting U.S. national security at risk.”

Mark J. Dannels, sheriff of Cochise County in Arizona, said border security “should be a primary issue even before we talk about immigration reform.”

Dannels has spent 25 years in law enforcement along the border.

In a Facebook report on the latest incident, Dannels said the violence is occurring in Agua Prieta Sonora, Mexico.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aguaprieta; aliens; banglist; borderwars; grenades; huachuca; maduce
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“Reports of the death toll range from 8-13 people, none of whom are listed as U.S. citizens.”
1 posted on 01/22/2014 7:31:23 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
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To: HiJinx

ping


2 posted on 01/22/2014 7:36:11 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Big cartel fight coming, that is for sure, and the ‘losers’ will flood north and the winners will, too.


3 posted on 01/22/2014 7:39:07 AM PST by Hulka
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To: SwinneySwitch

Not sure if it’s that bad, but Texas has it’s own problems with violence across the border.


4 posted on 01/22/2014 7:41:06 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

“.223 which is less than half the size of a .50 BMG.”

Should I laugh or cry? To illustrate the difference between these state the difference in mass—the 50 cal is 10x’s more massive. Or one can talk about penetration, where the 50 can pass through 6 residential homes before running out of gas.


5 posted on 01/22/2014 7:41:49 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: SwinneySwitch

As long as its drug punks, it’s a good report.....!


6 posted on 01/22/2014 7:51:33 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

As long as its drug punks, it’s a good report.....!


7 posted on 01/22/2014 7:51:41 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: SwinneySwitch; SandRat; HiJinx

Former 35D/35E and MICCC grad from Fort Huachuca. Sad. Very pretty in Sierra Vista. Had breakfest at Cafe Ole with Sandrat once.


8 posted on 01/22/2014 7:53:14 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Must be the .50 caliber show loophole.


9 posted on 01/22/2014 7:54:06 AM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: SwinneySwitch
none of whom are listed as U.S. citizens.

Exactly what zero & justus want to happen.

Then the defecation will really engage the rotary object.

10 posted on 01/22/2014 7:54:47 AM PST by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: Hulka

Uh, washington is the cartel, they are weeding out those who do not play along.


11 posted on 01/22/2014 8:04:10 AM PST by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: Fido969

Or, proving the link between the Mexican army and the cartels.


12 posted on 01/22/2014 8:05:17 AM PST by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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To: aces

Not sure what you are saying.

Cartels are fighting for control south of the border, fighting to control that portion of the southern border and its smuggling routes.


13 posted on 01/22/2014 8:09:32 AM PST by Hulka
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To: SwinneySwitch

2 x M-16 = 1 x M-2...?

I’ll have to remember that...!!


14 posted on 01/22/2014 8:10:54 AM PST by gaijin
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To: nonsporting
Should I laugh or cry? To illustrate the difference between these state the difference in mass—the 50 cal is 10x’s more massive. Or one can talk about penetration, where the 50 can pass through 6 residential homes before running out of gas.

In the following video, eight .50 cal armor-piercing rounds stacked on top of each other penetrated 12 inches into a pressed earth wall 18 inches thick. Sandbags would probably be less resistant to multiple stacked rounds, but it's clear why some kind of soil-based barrier is the basic building block of even the crummiest infantry fortifications.

15 posted on 01/22/2014 8:13:33 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Hulka

I am saying all of that is a deception, the us federal gangsta imports oil tankers full everyday through our ports...does anyone truly believe that some poor mexicans with backpacks can supply the tonage use everyday?
Its all money and we are not aware of our governments deeds.


16 posted on 01/22/2014 8:13:38 AM PST by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: aces

Please provide a link where I can read about tankers that arrive everyday full of illegal drugs.

Thanks.


17 posted on 01/22/2014 8:16:31 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Hulka

You never will...our covert ops are black.


18 posted on 01/22/2014 8:17:42 AM PST by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: aces

Please let me know how you know about them if it is a cover-up/black-op of some sort.

Seriously.


19 posted on 01/22/2014 8:19:10 AM PST by Hulka
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To: SwinneySwitch
Always something, you know?

A naked muslim stuck in a Jersey municipal water treatment pipe one week, this South of the Border fun the next to add to the growing list from all the weeks prior.

Probably just coincidental, but when I look at these events with my frequently intermittent 20/20 hindsight glasses, these things all look similar somehow. Hmmmm...

Great...now that CCR song about a bad moon risin' won't stop replaying in my head. Always something...

20 posted on 01/22/2014 8:21:32 AM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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