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Posted on 11/13/2011 2:49:13 PM PST by neverdem
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — The leaders of a powerful Mexican cartel, frustrated that U.S. law enforcement was interfering with their lucrative drug business, plotted a military-style attack on a U.S. or Mexican government building to "send the gringos a message," federal prosecutors allege in documents filed this week.
Leaders of the Sinaloa cartel sought dozens of American-made weapons for an attack in Mexico City on possible targets that included government buildings, an embassy or consulate or media outlet, according to documents in the case against Vicente Zambada, an alleged top lieutenant in the cartel.
Zambada is in jail in Chicago awaiting trial, one of dozens of defendants charged in the city as part of a sweeping international investigation. He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he conspired to import and sell large amounts of cocaine and heroin in the United States, including Chicago.
Authorities say his father, Ismael Zambada, runs the cartel along with Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. There's nothing in the documents to indicate the plot was carried out.
Vicente Zambada's lawyers claim he and other cartel leaders were granted immunity by U.S. agents — and carte blanche to smuggle cocaine over the border — in exchange for intelligence about rival cartels engaged in bloody turf wars in Mexico. Prosecutors have denied that such an agreement exists.
But deals with key players in...
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During the conversation, the documents say, Guzman suggests they target a Mexican or American government building in Mexico City. Vicente Zambada then turns to Margarito Flores and tells him to find a U.S. soldier returning from overseas to give him 20-30 "big powerful weapons," specifying that they be American-made. During a later recorded phone conversation, prosecutors say, Vicente Zambada reiterates with Flores that the cartel will buy the weapons...
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Gringos already got their message some time ago.
In 2012, they are Toast.
Better hope we don’t decide to send them a message. Wonder how well they would like drone strikes on their boss’s lairs
To paraphrase El Kabong:
“I’ll do the message sendin’ around here, Bobaloui, and dooon’t you forgit it!”
Am I reading this right? Why in hell would we let them smuggle coke into the US so WE could obtain intelligence about turf wars in Mexico?
Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda had the same idea, ... look at the response they got.
Just a planned attack on a rival drug running cartel.
Just a few of the most publicized..
Jesus Diaz
Jose Compean
Ignacio Ramos
Some that most of us have not heard about..
Police Officer Stephanie Mohr
Dep. Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez
Is it true that Officer Mohr got ten years because her dog bit an drug-smuggling, ILLEGAL alien? This is from the Clinton administration so anything is possible.. maybe the ILLEGAL alien was delivering money from the drug gangs for the Clinton campaign
That's enough to call BS right there. There's a glut of drugs in the US. Anyone can get highly pure drugs anywhere in the country at affordable prices.
Ingrates. The American ATF sells them all kinds of American weapons and this is the thanks we get?
So the Sinaloa cartel is now a terrorist organization. Use drones until the last one is dead.
Thanks neverdem.
They ain't building a fence for a reason - $$$$$$$$$$!
This strategy is known as “smart diplomacy”, if you weren’t aware.
This statement is coming from the Holder DOJ. Therefore, we are best served by viewing this statement through a political lens, the same lens that Obama and Holder use. The allegation likely serves as a feint or misdirection with respect to the Fast and Furious scandal. Nothing more, nothing less.
Send them a message. Wipe their butts off the planet.
You bet. I believe very little in regards to these sources and these types of reports.
It’s just a matter of time before the Mexican Cartel and the Middle East Terrorist groups hook up and target all things American.
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