Posted on 05/18/2007 6:49:38 PM PDT by Ladycalif
http://www.americanpatrol.com/
American Border Patrol
Major gun battle in Mexico reported
1:22 pm PDT -- American Border Patrol has learned from a reliable source that there is a major gun battle on-going in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. More than 100 people have been killed. Word is that the government may pull the National Guard off the border because it fears a confrontation if people head north.
It will start in the border towns. The media will ignore it, bury it, not report it. Soon innocent Americans will be killed by mercenaries, drug dealers, criminals crossing our borders. And it will be okay, as long as those being killed are not brown.
But....that’s already happening.
I assume the “government” mentioned in the article is the US Government. And I have to ask if the National Guardsmen at the border are armed. If so, they should defending our borders, not allowing armed thugs to conduct drive-by shootings. The US Government has been avoiding a confrontation at the border for a long time.
Well, by all means, roll out the f'n Welcome Wagon. We could use a little armed conflict along about now, ourselves.
That....is one hell of an idea.
Just where exactly does Kyle and McCain call home?
Oh that makes sense.
If a open gun battle move North in to US territory we simply back National Guard (the people expressly empowered to protect the US homeland) away from the border because we do not wish to involve them in a conflict.
Armed conflict in defense of the border is the National Guards purpose for existing!
and yet this is what is being Repported here along the Arizona Mexico border
BREAKING NEWS: Reports of advancing hit squads “a joke made in poor taste,” Cananea mayor says; meanwhile, rumors abound on U.S. side of border
By Jonathan Clark
Herald/Review
Published on Friday, May 18, 2007
NACO, Sonora, Mexico – Reports of a heavily armed column of gunmen advancing on Cananea, Sonora, were “a joke made in poor taste,” the city’s mayor said Friday afternoon.
At shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Mayor Luis Cha Flores issued a state of alert for his city after receiving what were then described as credible reports that a convoy of rogue gunmen had entered a town 10 miles west of Cananea.
But by early afternoon, Cha Flores was calling the reports a false alarm, and urged the people of Cananea to return to their normal activities, the Hermosillo newspaper El Imparcial reported on its website.
Sonora state attorney general Abel Murrieta Gutierrez had earlier dismissed the reports as unreliable.
Meanwhile, rumors of a massive shootout in Cananea with over 100 dead began circulating on the U.S. side of the border, with local citizens calling and e-mailing the Herald/Review with second- and third-hand reports of the carnage.
Several callers said they had received their information from U.S. officials.
Border Patrol spokesman Gustavo Soto said his agency had stepped up its preparedness upon hearing rumors of the bloodshed, but backed off when the rumors could not be substantiated.
“Once we learned the reports were not valid, we regained our normal posture,” Soto said.
One caller reported that a group of over 30 armed Arizonans were headed to the border to help the Border Patrol fend off an advancing column of narco-gunmen.
Soto said he was not aware of the vigilantes, but he discouraged civilians from trying to assume the role of law enforcement.
Carlos Patron, a resident of Cananea who drove to Naco, Sonora, on business shortly after noon on Friday, said he had left a quiet city.
“Everyone is hiding in their houses because of the warnings,” Patron said, adding that he had also not seen any evidence of violence during his 40-mile drive to Naco.
A story datelined from Cananea that was posted to El Imparcial’s website at 1:15 p.m. said that “little by little, calm is returning to the streets of Cananea after reports of an armed convoy advancing toward the city turned out to be false.”
Rumors that the armed convoy was planning to make its way from Cananea to Naco had closed schools and government offices in this border town. But the city’s director of public security, Juan Alberto Bracamonte, said he had received no credible reports of violence or advancing hit squads.
“It was a false alarm,” he said.
Spokesmen for U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement, which operates the Naco Port of Entry, did not immediately return calls. Security was visibly beefed up at the port at approximately 1 p.m., but appeared to be back to normal an hour later.
The Herald/Review continues to monitor the situation in Sonora and will update this story if the situation changes.
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/05/18/news/doc464e127cd4528374585029.txt
Sweet!
Excellent choice for concealed carry too!
“Word is that the government may pull the National Guard off the border because it fears a confrontation if people head north.”
Incredible........
Mexico today, an American city tomorrow! Thank you Bush, Kennedy and the rest of our feckless leaders! We thank you and our children thank you, they will be the recipients of your dastardly deeds for many years to come.
“Thanks Ted.”
Can anybody explain why that disgusting Ted Kennedy gets to write the newest amnesty bill when he also authored the failed immigration bills of 1965 and 1986? It’s obvious that each of these has only led to the present gold-plated mess, and yet they let this senile drunk write yet another amnesty bill. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. No wonder no one respects the Senate. They are morons.
cover up starting already...that was fast.
For the life of me, I can’t find anything in my recollection or history books that reminds me of ANY country that has ever NOT protected its borders.
I know is not just me.... but at times I get confused... is this still the US???
Wow. Wait until it gets widespread and some non-brown American kills one of these thugs in self defense. The American will be crucified.
Depends upon how you define "failure," apparently. Looks like our definition is 180 degrees from Kennedy's ... and McCain's, and President Bush's.
20 Killed in Gunbattles in North Mexico
20 Killed in Gunbattles and Abductions in Northern Mexico
armed assailants in a fierce gunbattle just south of the Arizona border on Wednesday after tracking a group of gunmen who killed five policemen into the nearby hills.
About 40 assailants, whose tactics and weaponry resembled those of Mexico’s powerful drug gangs, drove into the town of Cananea, 20 miles south of the U.S. border, in up to 15 vehicles and seized four policemen in two patrol cars, Sonora state police said in a statement.
The bullet-riddled bodies of the four, along with 50 spent cartridges, were found on the side of a road hours later, the statement said.
Sonora state Gov. Eduardo Bours said a total of five policeman were killed in the day’s fighting, but did not specify how the fifth officer died.
Three other officers were seized elsewhere. Two were released earlier in the day, and one was freed during the later gunbattle. Three Cananea residents who had also been aducted were freed.
After the initial attack on Cananea, the gunmen fled and tried to hole up in mountainous terrain around the town of Arizpe, about 50 miles to the south.
Police followed the assailants there, engaged in a shootout and killed 15 of the assailants, Bours said. Police seized 15 assault rifles and eight pistols following the hours-long confrontation, the Sonora state government said in a press statement.
Bours declined to speculate on a motive for the killings, but Mexico has seen a wave of attacks on police, military and intelligence officials as the government battles drug trafficking gangs.
President Felipe Calderon has vowed to crack down on Mexico’s powerful drug cartels, which are battling for lucrative smuggling routes north, sending 24,000 soldiers and police to violence-plagued states to go after everyone from cartel leaders to growers and dealers.
Meanwhile, in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora state, unidentified assailants on Wednesday tossed a hand grenade from a passing car at the offices of the newspaper Cambio. The device only caused minor damage and no injuries. A similar attack on the newspaper occurred in April.
And authorities in the northern state of Coahuila reported that men disguised as Mexican federal agents had kidnapped the state’s chief anti-kidnapping investigator.
Lucio Tello, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office, said Enrique Ruiz Arevalo, director for investigations of kidnapping and organized crime for the agency, has been missing since Monday.
The four kidnappers wore black uniforms with the insignia of the Federal Agency of Investigation, Mexico’s equivalent of the FBI, when they grabbed Ruiz Arevalo and another agent in Torreon, 310 miles southwest of the U.S. border at Eagle Pass, Texas.
They released the other agent hours later. Tello said the attorney general’s office knew of no motive for the abduction.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3182240
Wonderful!
I regret I lived long enough to see the day America finally surrendered to the barbarian hordes.
Like Ramos and Campeon? and worse.
Bzzzzt!! Wrong answer. The correct response is to reinforce the border and defend it with as much force as necessary to prevent breach. Our government leaders have really lost touch with reality. They need to be replaced.
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