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Feds: Mexican Cartel Plotted Attack on U.S. to 'Send the Gringos a Message'
cnsnews.com ^ | November 11, 2011 | KAREN HAWKINS

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.

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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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: americanmade; banglist; cartels; corruption; fastnfurious; fbi; fraud; guncontrol; ismaelzambada; mexico; mexifascism; obama; sinaloa; sinaloacartel; terrorism; vicentezambada; wod; wodlist; wosd; zambada
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1 posted on 11/13/2011 2:49:16 PM PST by neverdem
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To: FReepers; everyone; All



FReepathon Day 44!



2 posted on 11/13/2011 2:51:43 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC BY DONATING NOW! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: neverdem

Gringos already got their message some time ago.

In 2012, they are Toast.


3 posted on 11/13/2011 2:51:50 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: neverdem

Better hope we don’t decide to send them a message. Wonder how well they would like drone strikes on their boss’s lairs


4 posted on 11/13/2011 2:52:03 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: neverdem

To paraphrase El Kabong:

“I’ll do the message sendin’ around here, Bobaloui, and dooon’t you forgit it!”


5 posted on 11/13/2011 2:54:05 PM PST by G Larry (Catholic Conservative Supporting Israel!)
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To: neverdem

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?


6 posted on 11/13/2011 2:58:12 PM PST by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: neverdem

Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda had the same idea, ... look at the response they got.


7 posted on 11/13/2011 2:58:31 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: neverdem

Just a planned attack on a rival drug running cartel.


8 posted on 11/13/2011 3:00:05 PM PST by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics. ProgressiveRepublicansInConservativeCostume)
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To: neverdem
No military style attacks.. instead they are attacking with help from federal government agencies' employees (elected, appointed and career) and employees of the federal courts (appointed).

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

9 posted on 11/13/2011 3:04:54 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: neverdem
The leaders of a powerful Mexican cartel, frustrated that U.S. law enforcement was interfering with their lucrative drug business...

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.

10 posted on 11/13/2011 3:17:32 PM PST by Ken H (They are running out of other people's money. )
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To: neverdem

Ingrates. The American ATF sells them all kinds of American weapons and this is the thanks we get?


11 posted on 11/13/2011 3:33:21 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Ah, the old Hope-a-Dope.)
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To: neverdem

So the Sinaloa cartel is now a terrorist organization. Use drones until the last one is dead.


12 posted on 11/13/2011 3:53:03 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks neverdem.


13 posted on 11/13/2011 4:05:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: runninglips
The one Obama supports?

They ain't building a fence for a reason - $$$$$$$$$$!

14 posted on 11/13/2011 4:17:39 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Can we send a drone after a hostile leader on foreign soil - even if he is ours?)
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Click it.

15 posted on 11/13/2011 4:37:07 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Quickgun

This strategy is known as “smart diplomacy”, if you weren’t aware.


16 posted on 11/13/2011 5:04:39 PM PST by bkopto (Obama is merely a symptom of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: neverdem
federal prosecutors allege in documents filed this week.

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.

17 posted on 11/13/2011 5:14:24 PM PST by bkopto (Obama is merely a symptom of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: neverdem

Send them a message. Wipe their butts off the planet.


18 posted on 11/13/2011 5:16:17 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Ken H
federal prosecutors allege in documents filed this week.

You bet. I believe very little in regards to these sources and these types of reports.

19 posted on 11/13/2011 5:18:17 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: neverdem

It’s just a matter of time before the Mexican Cartel and the Middle East Terrorist groups hook up and target all things American.


20 posted on 11/13/2011 5:27:18 PM PST by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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