Posted on 07/17/2011 7:00:53 PM PDT by neverdem
The lawyer for Jaime Zapata's family says U.S. officials refuse to answer questions about whether the weapons used were linked to the Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
Five months after U.S. immigration agent Jaime Zapata was shot to death by a Mexican drug cartel, his family is demanding to know whether the weapons were purchased in the United States and smuggled into Mexico under the now-defunct Fast and Furious operation.
The family complains that U.S. authorities in Washington and Texas have refused to answer crucial questions about the Feb. 15 ambush on a four-lane highway in northern Mexico.
"What happened with Jaime needs to come out," the family's lawyer, Raymond L. Thomas of McAllen, Texas, said in a telephone interview Sunday. "And the likelihood that these were Fast and Furious guns is certainly plausible."
Mexican authorities have announced nine arrests in the high-profile case. Among them was Jesus Rejon Aguilar, a Zetas cartel leader who was captured near Mexico City this month.
In Washington, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is seeking information on the Zapata slaying.
Nelson Peacock, assistant secretary for legislative affairs for the Department of Homeland Security, which...
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Zapata, a 32-year-old Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent, was based in Laredo, Texas. He and fellow agent Victor Avila were on the Pan-American Highway in Mexico when they were stopped by at least eight men in two vehicles. The Americans identified themselves and the attackers opened fire, killing Zapata and wounding Avila.
In March, ATF officials in Texas told reporters that one of the weapons believed to have been used in the assault — a Romanian-made AK-47 — was bought in October at a Texas gun shop. The shop purportedly sold 40 firearms that wound up with the Zetas cartel...
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The Fed Gov Thugocracy will try to cover for murder that was supposed to excuse their tyrrany. I think it will take some aggressive, gun point citizens arrests and from the top down. The thugs cannot get away with their crimminal and evil games.
The last 6 paragraphs of the LA Times story need to be read.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-guns-cartel-20110718,0,1003846.story
LA Times, on the home page, good.
I’m very anxious to see this scandal break out in the MSM, but I’m not holding my breath.
Ping
Bravo Sierra
“The gun shop owner’s name is Ian Garland, and you claim he’s Mexican, “perhaps with papers now for America”?? How did you arrive at that?”
I read his letters.
>It won’t be part of Fast And Furious - which was Arizona-area only.
It WILL be part of an F&F clone run out of the ATF’s Texas district office - just watch.<
The point is, they gave the guy permission to sell to one buyer who they kept taking the guns from before they crossed the boarder.
The dealer - sold to other people by his own admission without ATF authorization in large quantities because he thought that they were able to by being part of the City .. a special officer and the Mayor along with a few other city workers.
ATF never gave him permission to sell to them the way that they were. “Buying 10 - 20 firearms at a time” the mayor etc.
As I said, I am not betting on this - I think he is trying to get on the bandwagon of gunwalker and cast doubt on his case. Which was an OCEDEF case, not part of what was happening.
bflr
Obama lied, and Citizens DIED!!
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