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Drug cartels using drones with explosives to attack cops in US and Mexico
American Military News ^ | 6/04/21 | Liz George

Posted on 06/06/2021 2:25:58 AM PDT by Libloather

Drug cartels are using weaponized drones armed with explosives to attack law enforcement in Mexico and the United States, equipping themselves like terror groups, authorities said.

One drone operator with the Carteles Unidos cartel – who didn’t provide his name – told The Courier-Journal last week that the criminal organization has nearly 100 drones and many carry explosives.

“We have many drone models. They’re not too sophisticated but can carry a considerable amount of explosives,” the cartel member told The Courier-Journal, adding that the equipment comes “legally from the U.S.” via “groups in Michoacán that support us and have legit money to buy the drones.”

In one April incident, Mexican police were removing blockades erected by criminal groups in El Aguaje, a town in Western Mexico, when a drone dropped a gunpower bomb on the operation, wounding two officers, authorities said.

Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval confirmed that Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a rival of Carteles Unidos, was responsible for the April attack on police, and said that the drone operator was arrested.

A number of drone attacks have occurred over the last several years, and Mexican officials have launched multiple investigations into terrorism committed by the cartels, confiscating both drones and C-4 explosives, which are frequently used in the attacks. Authorities are concerned that the cartels could expand their use and obtain more deadly technology in the future.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: cartels; drones; mexico; us
Drone war.
1 posted on 06/06/2021 2:25:58 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Yep, this not an act of war, at all. /s


2 posted on 06/06/2021 2:31:27 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Libloather

Send some diverse tranny soldiers to do sonething about it.


3 posted on 06/06/2021 2:45:35 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY
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To: HYPOCRACY

Send some diverse tranny soldiers to do sonething about it.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

They have drones with explosives.

We have drones with hormone shots.

Suppose we can tranny the cartels?


4 posted on 06/06/2021 2:50:25 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Candor7

Worth a shot!


5 posted on 06/06/2021 2:53:00 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY
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To: HYPOCRACY

Cabron! Hasta La Vista mes cojones!


6 posted on 06/06/2021 3:06:55 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Libloather

We need to send in the US Military and stomp the guts out of the cartels, once and for all. Yeah, like that will ever happen.


7 posted on 06/06/2021 4:14:36 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it.)
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To: Libloather

Send the Army to stop it.


8 posted on 06/06/2021 4:23:54 AM PDT by familyop
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To: Libloather

bkmk


9 posted on 06/06/2021 4:36:52 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: Hardastarboard

We’ve done it before with Mexico.....


10 posted on 06/06/2021 5:41:04 AM PDT by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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But leftists will only continue to shit all over the police, slandering them with every epithet there is, propagandizing that it’s no sweat to be a cop, that the cops are the terrorists and thugs, murderers....DAMN ALL LEFTISTS TO HELL !!!!


11 posted on 06/07/2021 8:46:16 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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