Hmmm... no mention of this on CNN.com. Must not be important.
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It has been ongoing for a few days now. Some other info/videos of the troops:
CNN Story fromn a couple days ago:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/06/mexico.troops/index.html
Texas makes emergency plans in case violence spills over from Mexico
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201954/posts
Border lawmakers fear narco-nuke terrorism link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2201947/posts?page=1
[snip]“When you have…gangs and they have loose ties with al Qaeda and then you have Iran not too far away from building a nuclear capability, nuclear terrorism may not be far off,” said Rep. Trent Franks (R- Ariz.), a member of the House Armed Services committee.
“The goal of the cartels is to make money,” said Cuellar, who sits on the House Homeland Security committee. “If they can smuggle in drugs and human cargo, then certainly they can smuggle other things in, other devices to cause us harm.”
“We have not heard of any associations, but is there the possibility? I’ll be the first to say, yeah. They have the routes, they can very easily smuggle in other things.”