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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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To: BushisTheMan

If it wasn't drugs it'd be something else. Do a google on these guys. They're vicious.


41 posted on 01/28/2005 4:42:11 PM PST by monkeywrench
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To: TexasCowboy
There's a lot going on in the border towns that we know nothing about.


....so...enlighten us.
42 posted on 01/28/2005 4:42:47 PM PST by dagoofyfoot
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To: dagoofyfoot

See #37, please.


43 posted on 01/28/2005 4:45:25 PM PST by TexasCowboy (We make geldings of our boys then wonder why they don't become stallions)
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To: TexasCowboy
drugs and terrorism


well that's a new twist...


{sarcasm off}
44 posted on 01/28/2005 4:46:43 PM PST by dagoofyfoot
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To: wardaddy; Polybius; El Conservador; Cincinatus' Wife; Travis McGee; Jokelahoma
Los Pepes brought down Padrino.....no doubt.

With a little help from Delta Force, according to Mark Bowden in Killing Pablo.

45 posted on 01/28/2005 4:49:40 PM PST by angkor
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To: B4Ranch
The Tucson Border Patrol Sector got a new chief today. This is one of the little tidbits he tossed out:

If Border Patrol agents apprehend a terror suspect, the public will never know, Nicley added.

He said it is possible that one or more terror suspects have been picked up along the Arizona-Mexico border, but disclosing that would let terrorists know too much and the safety of all Americans supersedes the public's right to know in such cases.

This is the closest thing to an official statement on the matter so far. Looks like the prayer rugs found at load-out sites were not just leftovers from a clearance sale at Pier One.

46 posted on 01/28/2005 4:52:37 PM PST by JackelopeBreeder (Proud to be a mean-spirited and divisive loco gringo armed terrorist vigilante cucaracha!)
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To: BushisTheMan
Or maybe Americans should stop buying and taking drugs. Then these little drug turds wouldn't have any money to buy people.

It is always more politically correct to go after the sellers than the buyers. Sad, but true. This is the same reason Afghanistan is the number one producer of heroin and there is great pressure for them to burn the poppy fields. Yet the fact still remains that if we stopped purchasing heroin that alone would take care of the poppy fields. And conversely, as long as there are heroin buyers in the US (by far the greatest market of heroin) there will ALWAYS be poppy fields.

Same thing with Cocaine (which is the major money-maker for the Mexicani cartels). If people stopped buying coke these cartels would lose a lot of dimes.

Infact most serious crime could basically be stopped if the users of drugs/prostitutes/stolen goods etc changed. Almost instantly infact.

However, it is always more politically correct to go after the 'bad peddlar' and not have a look at who he is selling the drugs to. (BTW: Most heroin and cocaine sales (apart from the low-grade 'crack' cocaine) are sold to middle to high income clientelle. People who should know better).

47 posted on 01/28/2005 4:56:10 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: 1lawlady

I'll be thinking of you and your son. He's not got an easy job these days.

The state dept issued a travel warning about the Mexican towns across from Loredo, Tx (because 27 Americans have been killed, kidnapped, gone since Sept.) and the Mexican government threw a tizzy fit. Today the El Presidente's office issued a statement [paraphrased] that the USA should stay OUT of their business!


48 posted on 01/28/2005 4:56:33 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("We are all sinners. But jerks revel in their sins." PJ O'Rourke)
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To: JustAnotherSavage

El Presidente's needs to clean up his business....or we should all stay out of Mexico for a few months.


49 posted on 01/28/2005 4:59:41 PM PST by hoosiermama (prayers for all)
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To: mindspy; mysto; holyscroller; ozarkgirl; Outland; Rick Deckard; ZeitgeistSurfer; Klickitat; ...

Jan. 28, 2005 NEW POLL UP!

This poll refers to an ID # given by the IRS for Federal tax purposes only. At least 5 states are accepting this ID card to give social services, registering to vote, even sell property to Illegal Aliens. Financing institutions love it and make excuses that this should be legal.

Do you believe state governments should allow illegal aliens to use a federal identification number to obtain rights intended for U.S. citizens?

Yes 6% 156 votes

No 94% 2650 votes

Total: 2806 votes
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

Show will repeat. It's a good one!


50 posted on 01/28/2005 5:04:41 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("We are all sinners. But jerks revel in their sins." PJ O'Rourke)
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To: JustAnotherSavage

Dobbs is working to grow his ratings. Good.


51 posted on 01/28/2005 5:11:51 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: xJones

This is a big problem on the border. There have been a lot of drug related killings this year. So many that the US has put out a warning to Americans crossing into Mexico. The Mexican govenment is furious to say the least. They, the Mexican Government, claims this is all America's fault. They claim that if we didn't demand drugs, there wouldn't be a problem.

For those of you interested go to http://www.el-universal.com.mx then click on the left corner English. There is a huge article about this problem.


52 posted on 01/28/2005 5:12:45 PM PST by texastoo (a "has-been" Republican)
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To: texastoo
They claim that if we didn't demand drugs, there wouldn't be a problem.

I've yet to hear a compelling argument to the contrary.

53 posted on 01/28/2005 5:14:37 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: Wormwood

You apparently don't understand the process of the Drug dealers addicting people.


54 posted on 01/28/2005 5:25:02 PM PST by marty60
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To: Wormwood

True, we have had the problem for years but not the violence that we are seeing now. Right now the killings in Mexico are related to drug gangs claiming territory for the US market.

By the way, right after 9/11 the Mexicans got behind on shipments north as the borders were somewhat closed. That didn't last for long.

So as far as I am concerned the argument goes as to which came first "the chicken or the egg".


55 posted on 01/28/2005 5:30:41 PM PST by texastoo (a "has-been" Republican)
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To: Wormwood

Similarly, if American jobs, schools, hospital facilities and other handouts weren't so damned attractive to illegal aliens, there wouldn't be any Mexicans in this country illegally...

Same stupid reasoning to excuse the inexcusable.


56 posted on 01/28/2005 5:37:38 PM PST by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: fidelio

cross ref to article on this subject

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1331076/posts


57 posted on 01/28/2005 5:38:24 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: marty60
You apparently don't understand the process of the Drug dealers addicting people.

In my experience, drug users are turned on by other users, not dealers.

Dealers may profit, but it takes a friend to addict you.

58 posted on 01/28/2005 5:55:09 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: fidelio

Why do they have visas and passports?

Under Bush, they are (his words) "Guest Workers" certainly not "illegal aliens" or terrorists.


59 posted on 01/28/2005 5:55:41 PM PST by sarah_f (Know Islam, Know Terror.)
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To: Czar
Similarly, if American jobs, schools, hospital facilities and other handouts weren't so damned attractive to illegal aliens, there wouldn't be any Mexicans in this country illegally...

Well, they're not sneaking in for the scenery.

60 posted on 01/28/2005 5:57:13 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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