Posted on 04/24/2010 10:06:14 AM PDT by Flavius
NOGALES, Arizona (Reuters) - In a warehouse in this Arizona border city, a U.S. Border Patrol trainer teaches a Mexican federal policeman to slip into a boxing stance and press a military assault rifle to his shoulder.
Taking aim at a silhouette just a few paces away, the policeman lets off a rapid burst of practice fire in an exercise designed to recreate the urban drug war raging just across the border in Mexico.
"They're getting into close-quarter combat all the time with the drug smugglers and the cartels," Border Patrol instructor Tom Pittman said during a break from training a group of nine Mexican federal agents on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Zetas 2.0
“It’s a collaborative effort to make both sides of the border safer,” Mark Qualia, a spokesman for the Border Patrol in Washington, said of the program, funded under Plan Merida, the $1.4 billion U.S. program started in 2007 to help Mexico fight the cartels.
“It’s a win-win for both countries.”
Looks like a lose-lose situation so far...
U.S. border police train Mexicans for drug fight???
Then who the #### is guarding the border!!!
U.S.-trained forces reportedly helping Mexican cartels (Free Republic thread 05/15/2008)
WASHINGTON As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday.
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The renegade members of Mexico's elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months, including prominent law enforcement leaders, the Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Yep, Ted Poe & John Culberson are the BEST US Representatives we have in Congress.
Lesson plan for all training necessary:
A: See potential target
B: Aim for center of visible mass
C: Squeeeeeeeeze
D: Repeat
“They’re getting into close-quarter combat all the time ...”
Then why aren’t they teaching you, Agent Pittman?
Skip the middle man, just have the U.S. train the drug cartel members.
So what’s the sub-text here? Mexicans are too stupid to figure out a training program for themselves? The American taxpayer has to do it?
Ping!
Thank you.
The border cops are training them? Because they are so successful and all.
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