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Gulf Cartel Threatens FBI Kidnappings
KRGV-TV ^ | 28 Jan 05 | KRGV-TV

Posted on 01/28/2005 3:05:03 PM PST by fidelio

SAN ANTONIO -- Valley authorities are on alert tonight after the FBI San Antonio office receives "credible information" of a threat to kidnap agents and kill them.

The Gulf Cartel is believed to have massed armed men, with visas and passports, along the border to come into the United States and kidnap two FBI agents.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: dhs; drugs; fbi; immigratio; mexico; wod
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1 posted on 01/28/2005 3:05:04 PM PST by fidelio
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To: fidelio

What is the "Gulf Cartel"?


2 posted on 01/28/2005 3:07:02 PM PST by Clara Lou (Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: Clara Lou; fidelio
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/family/gulfcartel.html
3 posted on 01/28/2005 3:08:38 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: fidelio
Can't the Feds do anything about the Mexican cartels and Russian mafia (mafiya) that seem to do virtually anything at will? It almost seems as if the Feds are terrified of the criminals. I read a paper from a Californian police department that made the Mafiya seem unstoppable.

They may be ruthless criminals, but they are still criminals and thus should be stopped.

4 posted on 01/28/2005 3:08:41 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: Clara Lou

And to accomplish what?


5 posted on 01/28/2005 3:09:02 PM PST by RetiredArmy (The Democratic Party would make Uncle Joe Stalin Proud!)
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To: Clara Lou

it's next in a series of Golf Carts, right after Golf Cart "K" and right before Golf Cart "M".

:>)


6 posted on 01/28/2005 3:09:07 PM PST by invoman
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To: Clara Lou

Really obnoxious drug lords in Mexico, the Central Ameria countries, and South America. They're not nice, they believe in torture of the kind you wouldn't wish on even Osama.


7 posted on 01/28/2005 3:09:39 PM PST by xJones
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To: Clara Lou
The Gulf Cartel is one of the largest crime families based in Mexico. It is one of several really potent groups that have wide sway in the region (including the lower part of the US). In Mexico they have a good part of the police force in their patroll, as well as the jail wardens (to the extent that even when several of the ruling elite were imprisonned they continued running the daily operations without pause).

They are just as ruthless as the Russian groups.

8 posted on 01/28/2005 3:11:13 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: RetiredArmy
And to accomplish what?

To stop the drug trade busts. These drug lords think they're little gods.

9 posted on 01/28/2005 3:12:24 PM PST by xJones
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To stop the drug trade busts. These drug lords think they're little gods.

In a way they are. Sadly.

10 posted on 01/28/2005 3:13:00 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: fidelio; B4Ranch

If this keeps up, we're gonna have a new Elliot Ness rising up from the ranks... and you know what that means. Yup, yet another fbi series on tv. The horror.


11 posted on 01/28/2005 3:13:35 PM PST by glock rocks ( Miss Kitty, the sun hasn't come up on the day that Marshal Dillon can't take care of himself.)
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To: xJones

Ok. So, like ripping off a couple of agents is going to shut the entire program right. Ok, I understand now. Their thinking is a bit off I would think myself.


12 posted on 01/28/2005 3:14:22 PM PST by RetiredArmy (The Democratic Party would make Uncle Joe Stalin Proud!)
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To: spetznaz
So we go all Pablo Escobar on them. Dead men make no profits, unless they can sell their votes in King County, Washington.
13 posted on 01/28/2005 3:14:58 PM PST by Jokelahoma (Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)
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To: fidelio

The Gulf Cartel is only doing the job Americans won't do.


14 posted on 01/28/2005 3:16:22 PM PST by politicalwit (Import poverty...hire an illegal today)
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To: xJones; spetznaz

Thank you for this information. I'd never even heard of them.


15 posted on 01/28/2005 3:18:02 PM PST by livius
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To: RetiredArmy

You should see some of the stuff those dudes do to cops. I'm assuming they would be trying to frighten individual officers to 'not try too hard.'


16 posted on 01/28/2005 3:19:13 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: Jokelahoma
So we go all Pablo Escobar on them.

Or go "Los Pepes" on them.

17 posted on 01/28/2005 3:23:28 PM PST by Polybius
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To: RetiredArmy

Well, it would sure shut MY PROGRAM down, since my son is one of the FBI agents. All politics are personal, ya know.


18 posted on 01/28/2005 3:23:40 PM PST by 1lawlady
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To: xJones

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that there was a "cartel" in Mexico. It certainly isn't surprising that corruption flourishes in Mexico.


19 posted on 01/28/2005 3:23:54 PM PST by Clara Lou (Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: xJones
There's a lot going on in the border towns that we know nothing about.

I work down there. I hear the rumors.

20 posted on 01/28/2005 3:28:42 PM PST by TexasCowboy (We make geldings of our boys then wonder why they don't become stallions)
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