ON THE NET...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22Texas+border%22&btnG=Search+News
http://www.altavista.com/news/results?q=%22Texas+border%22&nc=0&nr=0&nd=4
http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=%22Texas+border%22
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=%22Texas+border%22&submit=Search
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050801-122047-2623r.htm
"Mexican mercenaries expand base into U.S."
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
August 1, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A renegade band of Mexican military deserters, offering $50,000 bounties for the assassination of U.S. law-enforcement officers, has expanded its base of operations into the United States to protect loads of cocaine and marijuana being brought into America by Mexican smugglers, authorities said.
The deserters, known as the "Zetas," trained in the United States as an elite force of anti-drug commandos, but have since signed on as mercenaries for Mexican narcotics traffickers and have recruited an army of followers, many of whom are believed to be operating in Texas, Arizona, California and Florida.
Working mainly for the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's most dangerous drug-trafficking organizations, as many as 200 Zeta members are thought to be involved, including former Mexican federal, state and local police. They are suspected in more than 90 deaths of rival gang members and others, including police officers, in the past two years in a violent drug war to control U.S. smuggling routes."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3311456
Aug. 15, 2005, 6:50PM
"Out-and-out terrorism on the border near Laredo
Situation puts Americans right in the crosshairs"
By JERRY BREWER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Tony Garza, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, recently described a brutal gun battle that took place on July 28 in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, between "armed criminal groups," as having "included unusually advanced weapons." This since the combatants used an arsenal that combined automatic weapons, bazookas and hand grenades, in the attack on an apparent safe house of one drug cartel by those of another.
Actually, hundreds of different caliber shells were subsequently found at the war zone-like scene, along with AK-47 rifles, handguns and ski masks. And if that is not disturbing enough, a state policeman who asked not to be identified said that investigators found numerous photographs of municipal police officers at the residence, an apparent hit list of officials sentenced to death. Further intelligence revealed that each of the photographs listed the officer's name and assigned location, along with maps to their homes."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The attacks on Mexican and U.S. soil, along with the paramilitary sightings, should convince U.S. and Mexican officials, as well as the public at large, that these are terrorist attacks. Must there be suicide-homicide and related bombers to convince us that these are terrorist acts?"