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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021806995.html

Ok, this is where it gets VERY WEIRD. 2 agents, traveling in a BULLETPROOF SUBURBAN, and they get forced off the road. One of the OPENS THE PASSENGER WINDOW, Zapata gets shot, AND THEN THE WINDOW IS CLOSED and Avila calls for help.

This sounds like the hotel scene from “Bullitt.” How much you wanna bet Avila was driving, opened the door, got shot in the leg when they nailed Zapata (in the passenger seat) and then rolled the window up when they were done.

WHO THE HELL OPENS A WINDOW TO 10 ARMED MEN WHO MADE YOU PULL OVER?

Accused killer http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/01/ice-agents-accused-killer-appears-for-the-first-time-in-u-s-federal-court/

The Zetas hand him over to the US http://www.insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/2348-did-the-zetas-force-us-agents-killer-to-surrender

Alledged mistaken ID http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/02/24/ice-agent-jamie-zapatas-alleged-killer-confesses-mexican-army-error/

THEN THE US ATTORNEY’S TAPE OVER AN FBI WITNESS ABOUT ESPINOZA ZAPATA AND DO NOT RECALL HIM TO TESTIFY ABOUT THE MURDERER AGAIN http://www.texasobserver.org/big-beat/grand-jury-testimony-in-jaime-zapata-murder-case-accidentally-taped-over-by-court-reporter

It’s APRIL and the murderer’s lawyer has yet to see his “confesion”
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/04/lawyer-for-zeta-to-seek-suppression-of-confession-in-killing-of-ice-agent-jaime-zapata/

Cornyn asking questions last month about this http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/05/john-cornyn-wants-to-know-if-ice-agent-was-victim-of-texas-based-operation-similar-to-fast-and-furious/

This sounds like the hotel scene from “Bullitt.” How much you wanna bet Avila was driving, opened the door, got shot in the leg when they nailed Zapata (in the passenger seat) and then rolled the window up when they were done.

WHO THE HELL OPENS A WINDOW TO 10 ARMED MEN WHO MADE YOU PULL OVER?

Interesting theory.

Armored SUV could not protect U.S. agents in Mexico
The door locks popped open.
That terrifying sound — a quiet click — set into motion events that remain under investigation. When Zapata needed it most, the Suburban’s elaborate armoring was rendered worthless by a consumer-friendly automatic setting useful for family vacations and hurried commuters but not for U.S. agents driving through a red zone in Mexico.
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With the Suburban on the side of the road and unlocked, the Zeta gunmen wrestled Avila’s passenger door open. As the agents screamed that they were Americans and diplomats, Avila or his attackers hit the button that rolled the bulletproof window down. The gap was just four inches but enough for one gunman to get the barrel of his AK-47 into the Suburban and rake gunfire across their laps.

"WHO THE HELL OPENS A WINDOW TO 10 ARMED MEN WHO MADE YOU PULL OVER?"

"The agents were forced to the side of the road and, when their passenger-side window briefly opened, the assailants fired several rounds into their vehicle, fatally shooting Zapata, who was driving, and wounding Avila in the leg."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/18/AR2011021806995.html

Zapata was driving. Avila was in the passenger seat. The passenger side window was opened. I'd assume that Avila opened it, which makes it even more suspicious, since Zapata took the brunt of the fire and Avila only one non-life threatening wound.