Posted on 06/03/2010 3:54:34 PM PDT by stevie_d_64
Mexican and U.S. authorities were "secretly scrambling" last month to thwart a Mexican drug cartel's plot to blow up a Texas dam that would have flooded an area with about 4 million inhabitants, according to the Houston Chronicle's Dane Schiller and James Pinkerton.
Law enforcement officials were reportedly tipped off to a plot when they found one of the handbills that the drug cartel Los Zetas was distributing on the Mexican side of the river, warning residents to clear out ahead of the explosion. Authorities found "small amounts of dynamite near the dam," the Chronicle said.
Los Zetas wanted to blow up the Falcon dam not to hurt civilians, but to exact revenge on a rival gang called the Gulf Cartel, which smuggles drugs in the area, local authorities said. The gang has also been implicated in armed robberies of Texan fishermen in Lake Falcon, the reservoir behind the dam.
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Dams aren’t easy to just blow up ...
Drug cartel is a pretty convenient term. Personally I’m going with terrorist.
Yeah, well, that’s OK— Obama is too busy telling Israel how to deal with her borders.
“Los Zetas wanted to blow up the Falcon dam not to hurt civilians, but to exact revenge on a rival gang called the Gulf Cartel” OH WELL, that makes it alright then.
*ping*
Sure they are. Look what Bush did to the levies in New Orleans.
As a pawn, a blown Texas dam and the death and suffering resulting from it, would be a huge net gain for us. The entire nation would demand that both borders be sealed drum tight. This would have been painful, but a good thing in the long run.
Impossible. The border is safe, Napolitano says so.
I said, this would be a good thing in the long run.
I have to add “unless you are one of these killed in the flood, or ruined by the damge it caused.”
LOL -— you jest of course.
In WWII the Brits tried the same trick. I took quite an effort before they made it happen and then it was a tiny dam.
Did the DHS take this sort of thing into account in its security strategy, or the Black Panthers threatening racially motivated violence? I didn’t think so.
Celebrate diversity!!/s
I am sure they were paid off by a group of wackos like some Sorros group not to do that. If that was to happen, the US people would force the gov. to close the border and we know, we can’t keep the Dem party from there votes.
“The System Worked”... (attributed to one J. Napolitano in a rare moment of levity...)
No way.
Bush blew up all the levies.
Because he hates black people.
Just blew them all right up. He’s a demolition expert.
Yep that’s the movie ... Documenting their problems.
would have flooded an area with about 4 million inhabitants... [police] found one of the handbills that the drug cartel Los Zetas was distributing on the Mexican side of the river, warning residents to clear out ahead of the explosion... Los Zetas wanted to blow up the Falcon dam not to hurt civilians, but to exact revenge on a rival gang called the Gulf Cartel, which smuggles drugs in the area, local authorities said. The gang has also been implicated in armed robberies of Texan fishermen in Lake Falcon, the reservoir behind the dam.
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