Posted on 02/11/2009 11:08:23 AM PST by AuntB
Grenades used in three recent attacks in Monterrey, Mexico, and Pharr, Texas, all originated from the same lot delivered from South Korea...
That the grenade used in the third attack reportedly came from Mexico indicates that in addition to the well-known path of weapons flowing from the United States into Mexico, arms also are flowing from Mexico into the United States.
The first of the three attacks targeted the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico. In the second incident, again in Monterrey, gunmen attacked a local TV station on Jan. 12 in an attempt to intimidate the news agency into cutting back reporting on cartel activities. The feared group Los Zetas— which originally came from the ranks of Mexico’s special forces — reportedly was behind both attacks.
In the third attack, three Hispanic men on Jan. 31 tossed a grenade into a night club near Pharr, Texas — a Stratfor source has indicated might have belonged to the Bandidos motorcycle gang. The Bandidos have ties to Mexican cartels, as well as a reputation for violence.
The Bandidos gang and groups like it are known to have used improvised explosive devices like pipe bombs.
Mexico’s military is known to use South Korean grenades. High levels of corruption in Mexico make it very likely that members of the Mexican military sold the grenades to Los Zetas.
Gangs north of the border are known to collaborate closely with cartels in Mexico the flow of arms from south to north — specifically grenades — is a new discovery.
U.S. officials already have expressed concerns of being out-gunned by well-armed Mexican killing squads that use high-powered, automatic weapons. The addition of grenades to the arsenals of gangs north of the border represents even more of a threat to U.S. law enforcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at stratfor.com ...
Thanks for posting. Very interesting.
“That the grenade used in the third attack reportedly came from Mexico indicates that in addition to the well-known path of weapons flowing from the United States into Mexico, arms also are flowing from Mexico into the United States.”
In other words we are at war with Mexico and are ignoring it?
Pretty much! We ignore it at our own peril.
We ignored the Jihad for a quarter of a century.
Makes me miss General Pershing.
>That the grenade used in the third attack reportedly came from Mexico indicates that in addition
>to the well-known path of weapons flowing from the United States into Mexico, arms also are
>flowing from Mexico into the United States.
Well, we have to have SOME suppliers to keep our 2nd Amendment right, right?
-—naahhh—everybody knows you can buy grenades at the local hardware store, along with “high-caliber assault weapons capable of shooting 900 rounds per minute of armor-piercing ammunition”—(sarc)
Part of the gun show loophole that Obama will fix.
Part of the gun show loophole that Obama will fix.
"Mexico’s military is known to use South Korean grenades. High levels of corruption in Mexico make it very likely that members of the Mexican military sold the grenades to Los Zetas."
Thank you very much for the ping AuntB.
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City ...
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6848672&page=1
just doing the kidnapping Americans are unwilling to do.
Arms Trade in Mexico Ping!
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