Posted on 10/08/2010 7:48:37 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
ZAPATA — A Texas border sheriff on Thursday said he was calling directly on Zeta operatives to simply produce the body of a missing U.S. citizen believed shot and killed last week by drug gangs on Falcon Lake reservoir.
“All we want on this side is a body,” Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said at a news conference here attended by three congressmen and a host of other U.S. officials.
Gonzalez said he had made his entreaty privately through channels he could not disclose, but that now he was making his request public so the Zetas — an assassination hit squad now turned full-fledged cartel — would know he had no jurisdiction to go after them.
Mexican authorities resumed their search on Thursday morning for the body of David Michael Hartley. The morning’s ongoing efforts, being conducted by at least 40 troops, comes one week after Hartley’s wife made a frantic 911 call reporting his slaying during a sightseeing trip.
U.S. officials confirmed on Thursday that the search for Hartley has been thwarted by threats of an ambush from drug gangs, the Associated Press reported.
The part of Tamaulipas state that includes Falcon Lake is overrun by violence from a turf battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zeta drug gang, made up of former Mexican special forces soldiers, and both are battling the Mexican military, the AP said.
On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Perry called on Mexican President Felipe Calderón to do a thorough search for the body.
Speaking in Houston, Perry, who's running for re-election, said he had not heard from Calderón. He was harshly critical of the Mexicans’ efforts to find the body.
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My neighbor always says we need a “junkyard dog” for President—perhaps you are both right.
Foggy Bottom is silent..................
Well, we got the “dog” part.................
Except that the witness reports do not support that. Maybe you should read up on this before commenting.
We seriously need to setup a shooting range at that lake.
You mean Mexican divorce? That theory is floating around one bait camp in the Zapata area from what I’ve read.
Those are some mean people, trained by US special forces/blackop types.
Some of their members will cut your head off with a hand saw... Literally. Then post it online.
Been thinking along that line myself....yours is first comment I have read on such a possibility.
Hope such us not true but......
The US should be taking over the whole lake and putting a secure border fence somewhere south of it.
But our media and folks on the border believe she isnt telling the truth? grrr.
I hate to slander dogs that way. Noble animals, good friends, no this is something slimier, perhaps a cockroach. Evidently when they fumigated the White House, they missed some...
This is why Obama needs to be impeached, tried for treason and brought to justice.
So you’d rather go with the gossip story rather than the eyewitness reports?
If you venture into a war zone on a lark, how much taxpayer money should be spent so that your body is at the funeral?
You go hiking in Iran, or jetsking in insurgent controlled areas of Mexico, or adventuring in eastern Congo, or take a mission trip to Dafur you should expect bad things to happen. And you shouldn’t expect the army to come riding over the hill.
I wasn’t suggesting asking for permission from Obozo. I also wasn’t suggesting that the boat operate on the U.S. side of the lake. I am suggesting that someone with the tools and the kahonas should go down there and begin to systematically hunt down and eliminate these thugs. And, I do mean eliminate.
I’m giving no one a pass. It just seems like a good way to get rid of someone, if that was the intent. Would probably make for a good tv plot.
CALM DOWN!!
The couple was not from Texas. If you don’t live in a border state, and all you watch is network news and teevee game shows, you come away with the opinion that Mexico is our friend and ally, that you’re perfectly safe vacationing on the border. I hope this case disavows many of that notion.
No, I don’t think they should be help responsible THIS time, but after this, everyone should know: it’s unsafe to vacation near Mexico, let alone IN Mexico.
Meanwhile, NObama & Holder are suing the state of Arizona over the state’s efforts at cleaning out the illegals from their borders.
“you can bet Spetznaz would already be in Mexico “
Yup! Send in a lot of Marines. Take over the whole lake. Tell mezico that, due to their irresponsibility, we’ve moved the Border in regards to this lake. It’s now all US territory.
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