Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico

The Narcoshere ^ | 2/12/11 | Bill Conroy

[epow]

The Big Clubs in Mexico’s Drug War Aren’t Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole

Another series of leaked State Department cables made public this week by WikiLeaks lend credence to investigative reports on gun trafficking and the drug war published by Narco News as far back as 2009.

The big battles in the drug war in Mexico are “not being fought with Saturday night specials, hobby rifles and hunting shotguns,” Narco News reported in March 2009, against the grain, at a time when the mainstream media was pushing a narrative that assigned the blame for the rising tide of weapons flowing into Mexico to U.S. gun stores and gun shows.

Rather, we reported at the time, “the drug trafficking organizations are now in possession of high-powered munitions in vast quantities that can’t be explained by the gun-show loophole.”

Those weapons, found in stashes seized by Mexican law enforcers and military over the past several years, include U.S.-military issued rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and explosives.

The State Department cables released recently by WikiLeaks support Narco News’ reporting and also confirm that our government is very aware of the fact that U.S military munitions are finding their way into Mexico, and into the hands of narco-trafficking organizations, via a multi-billion dollar stream of private-sector and Pentagon arms exports.

Narco News, in a report in December 2008 [“Juarez murders shine a light on an emerging Military Cartel”] examined the increasing militarization of narco-trafficking groups in Mexico and pointed out that U.S. military-issued ammunition popped up in an arms cache seized in Reynosa, Mexico, in November 2008 that was linked to the Zetas, a mercenary group that provides enforcement services to Mexican narco-trafficking organizations.

Tosh Plumlee, a former CIA asset who still has deep connections in the covert world, told Narco News recently that

[mbynack]

Basically, the weapons are exported to the Mexican military and then sold to terrorists. The Mexican army is corrupt - Who knew?

[Dead Corpse]

Google up "Gunwalker". I think this is an attempt at mis-direction. BATFE is currently under investigation.

Sounds like the Spooks are trying to save the Feds bacon...

[Blood of Tyrants]

They are probably coming directly from the Mexican Army that we funded and armed.

[norton]

Actually...I was thinking of interment, not incarceration.

[William Tell]

marron said: "Its a big to-do about nothing."

Actually, it's quite important.

Our government is engaged in a purposeful campaign to encourage the liberal media to denounce law-abiding gun owners and dealers in an attempt to continue infringing our right to keep and bear arms. Our government is waging war on its people. I sure hope they don't win, as unpatriotic as that might sound.

[Smokin' Joe]

It might be a good talking point to point out that the cartels already have their fully military-capable weapons, that those aren’t going away, and stopping Americans from buying similar looking firearms with a watered-down tactical capability is not only locking the bern door long after the horses got out, but locking the wrong door at that.

[budwiesest]

That lie is being spread nationwide every day by ultra-liberal media organs such as MSNBC and the NY Times.

And such lying came to a head recently in the Tuscon shooting event where the Right and people like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh were specifically cited as contributing to the shooter's motives by being, "uncivil".

The calvary is coming (through Wisconsin, of all places) via the dismantling of the Dem machine, piece, by corrupt, union piece. It will spread throughout the states where their criminal influence on politics has festered for years.

I worry most about the huge sums of TARP or Stimulus funds that may have found their way into ACORN and other similar accounts.

Lie, Cheat, and Steal comes in a three-pak. See one, you better look for the others as they're nearby. Right now, Mexico is the least of my worries as I'm rooting for the upset about to take place in WI and it's ramifications. We get this union thing behind us and the border/armed citizens and a host of other infringements on inalienable rights of U.S. citizens will crumble.

The Good Guys are coming to Washington in 2012 and none too soon. The tide has shifted, the assaults on liberty will be a thing of the past. The fifty to seventy year attack on Liberty is just now coming to an end, it started on Nov. 2010. The whole Lying Left Franchise is in danger and they know it. Obama (Al Bama, Idiot Indonesian, Kenyan Klown, Alleged Hawaiian, Tan Trotsky, etc.) stepped on the trip-wire. America is awake. The giant has awoken and "change" is coming, but not what they intended- in fact, quite the opposite.

[Arrowhead1952]

I saw this thread link on the Tx message board today. You cannot buy any of those weapons or munitions at a gun show.

[aces]

Notthe only source but Mexico is a huge supplier...

[lentulusgracchus]

Thats because they are the suppliers,and very poor with no economy, no good answers, but crucifying folks with problems and creating a jail state has not and won’t work, .....

You guys would sound more consistent if you were posting in French, complete w/ white-flag graphics and pix of Jerry Lewis and E. J. Dionne. Even M. Sarkozy sounds less French than you do.

[aces]

And ya’ll would be realistic if your put on some witch hunter priest robes with burn at the stake logo’s..hehehehehe

and a big picture of a concrete world as the emblem..smile...