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Eyewitness in Alleged Mexican Pirate Attack Case Comes Forward [ Mexico blocks US from search ]
ABC News ^ | Oct 7 2010 | By RYAN OWENS, GINA SUNSERI and LEE FERRAN

Posted on 10/07/2010 3:46:09 PM PDT by NoLibZone

An eyewitness has come forward in the case of the American who was allegedly attacked by Mexican pirates to claim he saw the man's panicked wife as she fled to the American side of the lake.

As a safety precaution, the witness spoke in shadow and with voice alteration to avoid identification because he said he feared for his life.

"It was hard, just remembering everything about us going in to go take pictures and enjoying the sunny day and enjoying the nice weather," Tiffany Hartley, wife of missing David Hartley, told "Good Morning America" today, just hours after returning from the emotional trip.

Surrounded by a flotilla of police and politicians, Tiffany Hartley looked somber as she gazed at the water -- the last place she saw her husband alive. The search was halted, reportedly after threats from Mexican drug cartels, but will resume today, Hartley said.

For Hartley, though, it's not enough. She called on senior U.S. officials, including President Obama, to work more closely with Mexican authorities to recover her husband's body.

"I think we need to make that up the ladder a bit, even all the way up to Obama," she said. "We really need to get U.S. and Mexico working together."

"It's hard to believe that they don't believe me, but it is a story that most people don't understand that pirates would be on a lake, that the cartel[s] are taking over Mexico. It's a story that people don't understand unless they're on that border."

U.S. officials said they're prohibited from entering Mexican waters to search for his body. In addition to President Obama, David Hartley's mother, Pam Hartley, has issued a public plea to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking for aid in bringing her son's body home.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: disgusting; illegalaliens; illegals; invasion; lakefalcon; loszetas; mexico; pirate; terrorism; thanksmexico; wakeupamerica; warnextdoor; wherestheoutrage; zetas
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To: NoLibZone
“U.S. officials said they’re prohibited from entering Mexican waters to search for his body”

Where's Teddy Roosevelt when we really need him?

21 posted on 10/07/2010 8:48:47 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: NoLibZone; SwinneySwitch; Conan the Conservative; Clintonfatigued; Liz; sickoflibs; DoughtyOne; ...

Sadly, for all of us, especially this MURDERED AMERICAN,
the wifes story checks out. Mexico has been give the benefit of the doubt for TOO long at the cost of too many lives.

Sheriff: Evidence supports wife’s account in pirate attack
By Kevin Vaughan
The Denver Post

[snip]ZAPATA, TEXAS — Blood, witness accounts and other unspecified evidence all corroborate the version of events laid out by a Colorado woman whose husband is missing and presumed dead after an attack on a lake straddling the Mexican border, the sheriff leading the investigation said this afternoon.

Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. detailed some of the reasons he does not doubt that David Hartley, a 30-year-old Loveland native, was murdered a week ago by a drug gang on Falcon Lake, a 44-mile long waterway bisected by the U.S.-Mexico border.

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_16279531


22 posted on 10/08/2010 7:49:13 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Conan the Conservative

You’re several days late with your prediction...


23 posted on 10/08/2010 7:55:53 AM PDT by lonestar
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To: AuntB
Falcon Lake is a mainstream reservoir on the Rio Grande River. It is located 40 miles east of Laredo, Texas on Highway 83 and lies in Star and Zapata Counties. The surface area is 83,654 acres and there is a maximum depth of 110 feet at the dam. The reservoir was dedicated by presidents TBTS Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines on October 19, 1953.


24 posted on 10/08/2010 7:57:16 AM PDT by Liz
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To: AuntB

It’s about time to nuke Mexico City!

Be Ever Vigilant!


25 posted on 10/08/2010 7:58:56 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Liz; blackie

What is STUNNING is the number of freepers who want to give Mexico a pass and blame the American! Jerimiah Wright would be proud.


26 posted on 10/08/2010 8:00:50 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: AuntB
What is STUNNING is the number of freepers who want to give Mexico a pass and blame the American!

Once again....We're surrounded by traitors, back stabbers and frauds in the U.S...

It's what happens when the U.S. Gov intentionally flooded our country with tens of millions of illegal aliens...Then thrown in the traitors that reap the profits from the endless flood of low wage illegal labor...

Profits regardless of consequences, will eventually leave America dead on the floor.

27 posted on 10/08/2010 9:33:37 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: MizSterious
The cartels want more than Mexico, and Americans had best take note.

Take notes?... Are you joking?

Parkland Hospital in Dallas is delivering almost 1000 babies per month, every month, from illegal aliens....At just one hospital.

Our towns and cities jammed with tens of millions of illegals from Mexico, while your government forces you to pay for it. If that isn't enough, your government is turning the U.S. into a flophouse for foreigners with their endless chain immigration.

Take notes?

We've been had.

28 posted on 10/08/2010 9:41:30 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: AuntB

B U M P


29 posted on 10/08/2010 9:57:12 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: AuntB; blackie; Liz

” What is STUNNING is the number of freepers who want to give Mexico a pass and blame the American! Jerimiah Wright would be proud. “

They are generally of the same ilk who find no fault with McCain.


30 posted on 10/08/2010 9:59:07 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: stephenjohnbanker

” What is STUNNING is the number of freepers who want to give Mexico a pass and blame the American! Jerimiah Wright would be proud. “

They are generally of the same ilk who find no fault with McCain.”

Yep, Mexico pandering, reality denying fools, the lot of them.


31 posted on 10/08/2010 10:06:10 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: dragnet2

” Once again....We’re surrounded by traitors, back stabbers and frauds in the U.S...

It’s what happens when the U.S. Gov intentionally flooded our country with tens of millions of illegal aliens...Then thrown in the traitors that reap the profits from the endless flood of low wage illegal labor...

Profits regardless of consequences, will eventually leave America dead on the floor. “

Nailed it!


32 posted on 10/08/2010 10:15:52 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: AuntB

0bama’s zombies live to blame America for everything...I have no time for those brain dead haters, the first one who confronts me will get a bullet between the eyes!

Be Ever Vigilant!


33 posted on 10/08/2010 10:55:23 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: DallasDeb
Wonder if Perry has something up his sleeve with the ultimatum-sounding message he gave to Calderone

Um, surrender?

Perry's been licking Mexican boots since day one. You live in one of the few states that discriminates against other American citizens in college tuition by giving in-state tuition to illegal aliens. Signed by Rick "helmet head" Perry.

And you think the guy is some sort of tuff guy planning to rough up Felipe Calderon?

Other way round, sistah.

34 posted on 10/09/2010 1:40:49 PM PDT by Regulator (Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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To: AuntB

BUMP!


35 posted on 10/09/2010 1:56:48 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Economic reform without education reform and originalism is a penny in the fuse box.)
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To: NoLibZone

Mexico blocks US from search” - that speaks loud and clear.


36 posted on 10/09/2010 2:10:03 PM PDT by Dante3
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