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Posted on 07/23/2011 11:52:01 AM PDT by girlangler
Zetas may be smuggling weapons using State Dept. program - Chaparral, Columbus & southern NM roads
The brutally violent Zetas drug organization may be smuggling military-grade weapons through El Paso and Columbus, N.M., to feed its ongoing battles against other cartels and to possibly disrupt the 2012 elections in Mexico. Phil Jordan, a former director of the DEA's El Paso Intelligence Center and a former CIA operative, said the Zetas have shipped large amounts of weapons through the El Paso area.
"They are purchasing weapons in the Dallas area and are flying them to El Paso, and then they are taking them across the border into Juárez," said Jordan, a law enforcement consultant and former DEA official who still has contacts in the law enforcement community. Jordan said the Zetas were flying weapons caches out of the Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, and after they arrive in the El Paso vicinity, the Zetas smuggled them into Juárez.
"What's ironic is that the DEA also uses the Alliance Airport for some of its operations," Jordan said. "The Zetas were working out of a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in the Dallas area to smuggle the weapons to the border." The DEA has its Aviation Operations Center at Alliance. Robert "Tosh" Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot, supported Jordan's allegations and said the Zetas allegedly also purchased property in the Columbus-Palomas border region to stash weapons and other contraband. He said purchasing property and setting up a weapons-smuggling network suggests that the Zetas were establishing a staging area for their operations. Earlier this month, Plumlee had a debriefing with the Border Patrol in Las Cruces about the intelligence he gathered when he accompanied the U.S. military's Task Force 7 along the border. The military, which assists civilian law enforcement in counter-drug operations, was looking into allegations of gun smuggling along the border.
"The military task force became concerned that its information about arms smuggling was being compromised," Plumlee said. "From the intel, it appears that a company was set up in Mexico to purchase weapons through the U.S. Direct Commercial Sales program, and that the company may have had a direct link to the Zetas." Under the Direct Commercial Sales program, the U.S. State Department regulates and licenses businesses to sell weapons and defense services and training for export. Last year, according to U.S. statistics, the program was used to provide Mexico $416.5 million worth of weapons and equipment, including military-grade weaponry. Plumlee said military-grade weapons were found in a Juárez warehouse two years ago, and some of them were moved later to a ranch elsewhere in Juárez. Arms stash houses have also been reported in places across the border from Columbus and Antelope Wells, N.M.
"They've found anti-aircraft weapons and hand grenades from the Vietnam War era," Plumlee said. Other weapons found include grenade launchers, assault rifles, handguns and military gear including night-vision goggles and body armor. "The information about the arms trafficking was provided to our U.S. authorities long before the 'Columbus 11' investigation began," said Plumlee, referring to recent indictments accusing several Columbus city officials of arms trafficking in conjunction with alleged accomplices in El Paso and Chaparral, N.M. Plumlee, who has testified before U.S. congressional committees about arms and drug trafficking, said the roads in Southern New Mexico provide smugglers easy access to Mexico's highway networks...more
We can all be assured that Bingaman's attempt to designate a quarter of a million acres in southern NM as Wilderness won't complicate things a bit. Can't we?
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Next time the liberals bring up gun control we need to remind them of Obama selling guns to the Zetas and drug lords.
Amen.
Is it time yet?
Yes, It is TIME. TIME to DownSize DC!
Close entire Departments.
Investigate the rest and clean out the Traitorous Bastards who are destroying the nation.
IT IS TIME!
I learned something new this week, the BP has undercover agents. The problem was that he didn’t do it very well and was so obvious that I called a BP agent who confirmed that they had them and then I called the office and gave them the license # and sure enough, that is what he was.
He was so obvious that my husband, son and a neighbor independently stopped and asked what he was doing. He told my husband he was resting, I can’t remember what he told my son and finally told the neighbor that he was undercover.
There are so many places he could have parked and no one would have asked a question but he chose to park on our property next to our son’s PU. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
People always park alongside or on our property all the time, they park in the shade and eat or take a nap. You drive by and think nothing of it but this guy was acting more suspicious than the dumbest criminal.
I would be careful about how much credence I would put into this report. It is the only one alleging this. There has not been any independent support yet.
You've really changed, Matt. What do they have photos of you doing? Jesus.
Ah, HILLARY'S State Department, nyezzzz...!!! How interesting...!
Yes, every time she opens her mouth about US Mexican relations she's screaming about her angst regarding the flow of US guns to Mexico; so sad, so sad, wah, wah, waaaaah...!
And yet, here she has been signing for these gun sales --ya like that?
SEE? They were decrying a tragedy that they were INDUCING.
So now what's we got? Hussein, Holder AND HILLARY...!!
What is the BP and the PU? Please don’t assume that we all know what you are talking about. My first thought was BP (British Petroleum) has agents? Who knew.
What is the BP and the PU? Please don’t assume that we all know what you are talking about. My first thought was BP (British Petroleum) has agents? Who knew.
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