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INVASION USA: ARMED STANDOFF ON RIO GRANDE
World Net Daily ^ | Sunday, November 20, 2005 | Staff
Posted on 11/20/2005 5:34:36 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
Uniformed Mexicans with guns, bulldozer seize drug-bust truck
from Border Patrol
U.S. Border Patrol agents were backed down this week by armed men,
dressed in what appeared to be Mexican military uniforms and
carrying military weapons, who seized a captured dump truck filled
with marijuana from the U.S. agents and dragged it across the border
into Mexico with a bulldozer.
The border incident occurred Thursday evening when Border Patrol
agents attempted to pull over a dump truck on Interstate 10 in
Hudspeth County, Texas. The driver fled from the agents, exiting the
freeway and driving toward the Rio Grande which runs within 2 miles
of the interstate in this portion of West Texas.
The driver abandoned the truck after it became stuck in the river bed,
escaping into Mexico.
Agents called for reinforcement from the Texas state troopers and
Hudspeth County sheriff and began unloading the haul – estimated to
have been nearly 3 tons – when everything changed.
Officers "started to retrieve the bundles when the armed subjects
appeared," said Agent Ramiro Cordero, Border Patrol spokesman.
According to Hudspeth County Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, the dump
truck driver returned with armed men, some of whom drove "official
looking vehicles with overhead lights." Some of those armed, Doyal
told the El Paso Times, appeared to be Mexican soldiers in uniform
with military weapons.
"It's a very serious incident," Doyal said. "We are very fortunate ... no
one got hurt. Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an
international incident, or start shooting."
As WorldNetDaily has reported, there are widespread reports of
U.S.-trained Mexican commandos, called the Zetas, making
cross-border runs into U.S. territory in military-style vehicles, armed
with automatic weapons.
The Zetas were trained as elite commandos by U.S. forces to combat
the drug cartels, but they have switched sides and are working for the
drug smugglers in the border area posing a special hazard to
American law enforcement and Border Patrol agents, according to a
U.S. Justice Department memo. Under the control of reputed drug
kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Zetas are conducting a
bloody war for control of the entire southern border in an effort to
secure a monopoly on drug-smuggling and people-smuggling routes.
As both sides faced off, a bulldozer appeared from the Mexico side of
the river and was used by the armed men to pull the dump truck – and
the two-thirds of the marijuana that had not yet been unloaded – into
Mexico. The bulldozer, Doyal said, is believed to be used regularly to
make makeshift crossings over the Rio Grande.
The "armed encounter with drug smugglers," as Cordero described it,
is under investigation. No confirmation was made as to whether or not
the "soldiers" belonged to the Mexican military.
Build the wall, NOW.