Posted on 11/20/2005 5:34:36 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
Uniformed Mexicans with guns, bulldozer seize drug-bust truck from Border Patrol
U.S. Border Patrol agents were backed down this week by armed men, dressed in what appeared to be Mexican military uniforms and carrying military weapons, who seized a captured dump truck filled with marijuana from the U.S. agents and dragged it across the border into Mexico with a bulldozer.
The border incident occurred Thursday evening when Border Patrol agents attempted to pull over a dump truck on Interstate 10 in Hudspeth County, Texas. The driver fled from the agents, exiting the freeway and driving toward the Rio Grande which runs within 2 miles of the interstate in this portion of West Texas.
The driver abandoned the truck after it became stuck in the river bed, escaping into Mexico.
Agents called for reinforcement from the Texas state troopers and Hudspeth County sheriff and began unloading the haul – estimated to have been nearly 3 tons – when everything changed.
Officers "started to retrieve the bundles when the armed subjects appeared," said Agent Ramiro Cordero, Border Patrol spokesman.
According to Hudspeth County Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, the dump truck driver returned with armed men, some of whom drove "official looking vehicles with overhead lights." Some of those armed, Doyal told the El Paso Times, appeared to be Mexican soldiers in uniform with military weapons.
"It's a very serious incident," Doyal said. "We are very fortunate ... no one got hurt. Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an international incident, or start shooting."
As WorldNetDaily has reported, there are widespread reports of U.S.-trained Mexican commandos, called the Zetas, making cross-border runs into U.S. territory in military-style vehicles, armed with automatic weapons.
The Zetas were trained as elite commandos by U.S. forces to combat the drug cartels, but they have switched sides and are working for the drug smugglers in the border area posing a special hazard to American law enforcement and Border Patrol agents, according to a U.S. Justice Department memo. Under the control of reputed drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Zetas are conducting a bloody war for control of the entire southern border in an effort to secure a monopoly on drug-smuggling and people-smuggling routes.
As both sides faced off, a bulldozer appeared from the Mexico side of the river and was used by the armed men to pull the dump truck – and the two-thirds of the marijuana that had not yet been unloaded – into Mexico. The bulldozer, Doyal said, is believed to be used regularly to make makeshift crossings over the Rio Grande.
The "armed encounter with drug smugglers," as Cordero described it, is under investigation. No confirmation was made as to whether or not the "soldiers" belonged to the Mexican military.
That, and about 15% of our imported oil comes from Mexico.
If you ask Sobran or Buchanan, it came when that tyrant Lincoln and his Black Republicans suppressed states' rights after the Appomattox Armistice....
I'm sorry, but when armed foreigners illegally cross the border and with the threat of deadly force steal criminal evidence from the custody of US border patrol agents, how on earth is it not ALREADY an international incident?
George P's mom was caught trying to smuggle $10,000 worth of designer clothes into the country? Nice. Of course she wasn't charged.
"This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community," asserts that George W. Bush,
Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments"
to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005."
Add another thing that Bush has in common with Clinton. Treason. The differences in Clinton and Bush
are slimming down to nothing.
Scare the crap out of Vincente Fox.
Great ideas!
Sadly, our elected officials have no interest in putting Americans first.
Preserve, protect and defend my ass.
Ft. Bliss is outside El Paso.
Why doesn't he? Could he be under orders from the Bush dynasty?
You will probably get that wish in any event.
The war and all the misinformation surrounding it will assure that no one, or damn few, will cross over from the Dims to vote for any future Bush candidate.
The border issues and spending will not go away during the present administration and will keep the conservative base away from any future Bush hopeful.
Jeb will stay put in Florida and any of his kids will have to content themselves with starring in cross-border corporations and a small chance at being ambassador.
But the time is ripe for a constitutional counterrevolution. Discontent with the ruling system, as the 1992 Perot vote showed, is deep and widespread among several classes of people: Christians, conservatives, gun owners, taxpayers, and simple believers in honest government all have their reasons. The rulers lack legitimacy and don’t believe in their own power strongly enough to defend it.
The beauty of it is that the people don’t have to invent a new system of government in order to get rid of this one. They only have to restore the one described in the Constitution — the system our government already professes to be upholding. Taken seriously, the Constitution would pose a serious threat to our form of government.
And for just that reason, the ruling parties will be finished as soon as the American people rediscover and awaken their dormant Constitution.
His sister was busted for drug use/possesion. Seems the 'heritage' lives on.
I'm amazed I'm not seeing all the ususal "Joe Farah is a nut case"
remarks here on this one!
I have said for some time that Bush is Clinton without the sexual immorality. That is being a little unfair but not by as much as one would think.
This kind of crap needs to be brought to a halt ASAP.
The Bushes are classier than the Clintons.There is no Bush death list of friends and associates suicides.
I used to think the conspiracy theorists were nuts;looks like they were closer to the truth yet most Americans could care less.
Remember the Alamo!
Well, I'm not in to the Bush family bashing. It could be President Gore or Kerry right now:') I'm behind GB in most decisions. I don't understand what he's up to regarding our borders though.
Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Arvin West
525 N Wilson
Sierra Blanca, Texas 79851
Phone: (915)369-2161
Fax: (915)369-2126
E-mail the Sheriff's Office: arvinwest@valornet.com
Hudspeth County is the third largest county in the State of Texas. Sheriff's Office is located in Sierra Blanca with sub stations in Dell City and Ft. Hancock, TX. Stop by and see us, we are always glad to visit.
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