Posted on 01/22/2014 7:31:23 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
WASHINGTON – Mexican drug cartels are “killing each other” with .50-caliber machine guns and grenades just across the U.S. border with Mexico, sources have told WND.
The gun battles are occurring near Fort Huachuca, Ariz., which is the location of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and school.
The Army center is 15 miles from the Mexican border, but the installation runs up against the border.
A source associated with the center said that only a “three-strand barbwire fence” is keeping any spillover of heavily armed cartel members out of the compound.
Students at the post have had only basic training and haven’t handled weapons beyond the M-16, which shoots a 5.56 mm round, roughly equivalent to a .223 caliber, which is less than half the size of the .50 caliber.
The episode is the latest flare-up in what American ranchers living along Arizona’s southern border say is a virtual war zone.
Mexican drug lords rule in the U.S. border regions and “we’re living by the law of the cartels,” one American rancher said.
The ranchers recently blasted the federal government for failing them, warning that the chaos spilling from Mexico is “putting U.S. national security at risk.”
Mark J. Dannels, sheriff of Cochise County in Arizona, said border security “should be a primary issue even before we talk about immigration reform.”
Dannels has spent 25 years in law enforcement along the border.
In a Facebook report on the latest incident, Dannels said the violence is occurring in Agua Prieta Sonora, Mexico.
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Big cartel fight coming, that is for sure, and the ‘losers’ will flood north and the winners will, too.
Not sure if it’s that bad, but Texas has it’s own problems with violence across the border.
“.223 which is less than half the size of a .50 BMG.”
Should I laugh or cry? To illustrate the difference between these state the difference in mass—the 50 cal is 10x’s more massive. Or one can talk about penetration, where the 50 can pass through 6 residential homes before running out of gas.
As long as its drug punks, it’s a good report.....!
As long as its drug punks, it’s a good report.....!
Former 35D/35E and MICCC grad from Fort Huachuca. Sad. Very pretty in Sierra Vista. Had breakfest at Cafe Ole with Sandrat once.
Must be the .50 caliber show loophole.
Exactly what zero & justus want to happen.
Then the defecation will really engage the rotary object.
Uh, washington is the cartel, they are weeding out those who do not play along.
Or, proving the link between the Mexican army and the cartels.
Not sure what you are saying.
Cartels are fighting for control south of the border, fighting to control that portion of the southern border and its smuggling routes.
2 x M-16 = 1 x M-2...?
I’ll have to remember that...!!
In the following video, eight .50 cal armor-piercing rounds stacked on top of each other penetrated 12 inches into a pressed earth wall 18 inches thick. Sandbags would probably be less resistant to multiple stacked rounds, but it's clear why some kind of soil-based barrier is the basic building block of even the crummiest infantry fortifications.
I am saying all of that is a deception, the us federal gangsta imports oil tankers full everyday through our ports...does anyone truly believe that some poor mexicans with backpacks can supply the tonage use everyday?
Its all money and we are not aware of our governments deeds.
Please provide a link where I can read about tankers that arrive everyday full of illegal drugs.
Thanks.
You never will...our covert ops are black.
Please let me know how you know about them if it is a cover-up/black-op of some sort.
Seriously.
A naked muslim stuck in a Jersey municipal water treatment pipe one week, this South of the Border fun the next to add to the growing list from all the weeks prior.
Probably just coincidental, but when I look at these events with my frequently intermittent 20/20 hindsight glasses, these things all look similar somehow. Hmmmm...
Great...now that CCR song about a bad moon risin' won't stop replaying in my head. Always something...
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