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**UPDATES** BREAKING: US CBP Chopper Down at Texas Border, Fired on from Mexico
Breitbart ^ | 6/5/15 | Brandon Darby

Posted on 06/05/2015 10:21:43 PM PDT by exbrit

Breitbart Texas has learned that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter was shot down or forced to initiate an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas due to receiving gunfire from the Mexican side of the border

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: chopper; drugdealers; laredo; mexico; randnesty; texas
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To: dragnet2

No. I mean they vote for the party who gives them stuff and does stuff they like.


41 posted on 06/06/2015 10:16:04 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: demshateGod

Are you somehow suggesting the Republicans have not 100% aided and abetted lawless violent wide open borders and have not subsided millions of illegals with our tax dollars for 35+ years?


42 posted on 06/06/2015 10:19:18 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Two ways, one was the sound of the round hitting and going through the the cockpit, passing through a seat. The other would be the vibration in the rotor system after a bullet passed through one of the blades.


43 posted on 06/06/2015 11:41:34 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: CPT Clay

Act of war?


Ha! It SHOULD be....0bie will just say the cartels were acting stupidly.

Has he condemned the ChiComs for our Fed govt hack, yet?


44 posted on 06/06/2015 11:45:39 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: dragnet2

I’m saying no party is on the side of America. The people who hate America and want it fundamentally transformed vote for people who will do just that. The people who love America vote for people who would rather go to cocktail parties than defend America.


45 posted on 06/06/2015 11:54:07 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: exbrit
Josh Earnest will refer reporters to Homeland. Homeland will refer to Defense. Defense will refer to State. Harf will explain the administration's position on this.

-PJ

46 posted on 06/06/2015 11:58:58 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: USNBandit
Pretty good shooting.
Any idea about what kind of weapon and caliber?
TWB
47 posted on 06/06/2015 11:59:48 AM PDT by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin, the Flame of the North)
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To: exbrit

Has Obama surrendered to Mexico yet?


48 posted on 06/06/2015 12:05:09 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (With God, Barack Obama can't hurt us. Without God, George Washington couldn't ave us.)
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To: TWhiteBear

The initial info says AK variant in 7.62x39. The altitudes flown during an enforcement portion of a flight are pretty low. Sounds like they were right on the river and the suspect shot about 5 rounds from the Mexican side of the river. The EC 120 is a very soft skinned animal. Mostly fiberglass.


49 posted on 06/06/2015 12:07:18 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: centurion316

Yeah those red ones get your attention don’t they.


50 posted on 06/06/2015 6:06:20 PM PDT by superfries
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To: USNBandit; knarf

Thx, I guess we did find out knarf.


51 posted on 06/06/2015 6:09:27 PM PDT by superfries
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To: dragnet2

If as reported one round went through a rotor blade the whistling sound would be audible. If that caused the blade to seperate in any way that too would have been felt as well as heard.Not to mention if they were under goggles at night the rounds coming up would have been fairly visible if there were tracers.If they had FLIR even more so.


52 posted on 06/06/2015 6:13:13 PM PDT by superfries
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To: EternalVigilance

“Has Obama surrendered to Mexico yet?”
Oh yes. His first week in office of his first term.
Apologized for all the American atrocities such as The Alamo, etc.


53 posted on 06/07/2015 2:40:32 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: exbrit
a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter was shot down or forced to initiate an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas due to receiving gunfire from the Mexican side of the border

It's time to do like the Israelis did in Lebanon in the 80s. It doesn't matter who the official government of Mexico is or if they are or aren't supporting the cross-border attacks on our nation and law enforcement personnel. It needs to stop. It's time for a massive invasion and occupation of the border counties for the purpose of cleaning the elements that are attacking the U.S. Once the thugs and their offensive weapons are disposed of, we can pull back with the caveat that U.S. troops will be back if the hostile activity resumes.

54 posted on 06/07/2015 6:53:01 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

IOW, the border has already been militarized by virtue of the fact that Mexican gangsters are shooting at US helicopters; and oh, btw, Mexico isn’t *assisting*, or this wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Mexico to Assist in Helicopter Shooting Probe, Rejects Border ‘Militarization’
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/59418/20150612/mexico-to-assist-in-helicopter-shooting-probe-rejects-border-militarization.htm


55 posted on 06/13/2015 11:40:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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