Mexican Military Holds Border Patrol at Gunpoint Inside U.S.

Only in an ObamAmerica.


From Family Security Matters.

Mexican Military Holds Border Patrol at Gunpoint Inside U.S.


In the latest Mexican military incursion into the United States, two heavily armed camouflaged soldiers from Mexico actually crossed 50 yards inside Arizona and held American Border Patrol agents at gunpoint in a tense confrontation.

Armed with assault-style weapons, the Mexican soldiers retreated back south after a 35-minute standoff as if nothing ever happened and the Obama administration just let it slide. The unbelievable foray was made public by a mainstream newspaper that obtained government documents with alarming details of the January 26 incident. Specifically, the paper cites the Border Patrol Foreign Military Incursion report and a separate letter from U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, an Obama appointee who was recently sworn in.

The Mexican soldiers were spotted by a Border Patrol agent entering the U.S. about 2.5 miles west of Sasabe Arizona shortly before 9 a.m. A second federal agent positively identified the two individuals in tan, digital camouflage uniforms, on foot traveling westbound, on the United States side of the International Boundary Fence Line, according to the report obtained by the newspaper. The Mexicans misidentified themselves to U.S. Border agents and claimed to be pursuing drug smugglers, the government documents say.

Kerlikowske admits that the intruders were "confirmed members of the Mexican military" but he asserts that U.S. border officials determined that no further action was necessary involving the matter. Like a loyal Obama lapdog Kerlikowske claims military incursions from Mexico are infrequent though he was apparently forced to admit that there were 23 incidents in the Tucson and Yuma sectors of Arizona since 2010, including three this fiscal year alone.

The latest incursion was one of the most serious in recent years, according to U.S. officials that apparently didn't want their name printed in the newspaper. The same officials, clearly insiders privy to information that's not made public, seem to indicate that Mexican soldiers aren't chasing drug smugglers but rather protecting cartels as they transport their cargo into the United States through the treacherous desert.

Not surprisingly, Mexico's government long denied that its soldiers were involved in the January incursion and initially suggested the men were drug smugglers somehow clad in military uniforms. When reporters confronted Mexican officials with the evidence the embassy changed its story to this: "Those individuals were part of a counter-narcotics operation, which had taken place a few minutes prior on the Mexican side of the border," said Ariel Moutsatsos, minister for press and public affairs at the Mexican Embassy. "The two members of the Mexican army did not see any sign notifying them that they were crossing the border."

The official version from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico is that incursions happen and that they are "unintentional." No worries, says an American Embassy spokesperson quoted in the story, because U.S. officials work closely with their Mexican counterparts to ensure respect for the border and to return them quickly to Mexican territory. "The bilateral collaboration in these incidents testifies to the strength of our security cooperation," the U.S. Embassy official said.

Judicial Watch has done a lot of work in this area and has obtained records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that show Mexican military incursions occur quite often and go unpunished by the U.S. For instance, the DHS documents reveal 226 incursions by Mexican government personnel into the U.S. occurred between 1996 and 2005. In 2007 alone, 25 incursions occurred along the U.S.-Mexico border involving Mexican military and/or law enforcement. The problem has only gotten worse over the years, according to the records obtained in the course of JW's ongoing investigation.

A few years ago police in Phoenix Arizona reported that three members of Mexico's army conducted a violent home invasion and assassination operation that killed one person and littered a neighborhood with gunfire. The Mexican military officers were hired by one of that country's renowned drug cartels to carry out the deadly operation, according to Phoenix police officials, who confirmed the soldiers were armed with AR-15 assault rifles and dressed in military tactical gear. An official police memorandum describes it as a "drug rip," a tactical assault in which approximately 100 rounds were fired.

Mexican Convert to Islam Slaughters His Own Parents Because Allah Told Him They Were Infidels

From The Muslim Issue via The Religion of Peace.

Mexican convert to Islam slaughter his own parents because Allah told him they were infidels


Blame it on mental illness. Why did he only try to decapitate his own parents after he converted to Islam? Surely he was mentally ill before he converted. Yet he never tried to kill his own parents in 43 years of his life – until he converted to Islam, that is.

A relative to the victims write:

His parents were from Acapulco. Their names were Noemi Chavez Garcia and Aurelio Jacinto Vargas. They were returning from San Cristobal, Chiapas to visit their son and to help him out with money, but instead of being grateful, he grabbed a kitchen knife and slit his dad’s throat, killing him.

His mother tried to escape into the streets, but the killer caught up with her and slit her throat open too, dragging her lifeless body back to her dead husband where he tried to decapitate them.

Witnesses saw him murdering people and called the authorities. They promptly arrested the killer and found his dead parents in his room with a book of Koran next to them.

The reason I know this is because the victims were my uncle and aunt, whom I’ve known since I was a child. Everyone in my family is taking it really hard. It’s a horrible tragedy for us all.

Crazy slew subjected his parents to “divine mandate” in Palenque
* Gilberto Garcia Chavez, 43 years old, killed with his fists to his mother and stepfather because God asked him to.

Palenque, Chiapas / Friday, February 8, 2013

Enrique Romero | El Independiente del Sureste (Mexico)

A man deranged, apparently a religious fanatic and follower of Islam, coldly slaughtered his elderly parents in the colony Pakalkin of this city, after he received God’s command to kill them, which made him wildly attack them with a knife.

The couple had just arrived from San Cristobal to visit their son who lives in this city of Palenque.

The bloody events took place after 9:00 pm yesterday, in a house that is located on the street Bonampak, Kin Pakal colony, when neighbors called the emergency number 066 to report the assault, after witnessing how the demoniac subject grabbed the back of the elderly woman while she was trying to escape to the street and then cut her throat with a knife. He then took her limp body and drag it to the house, where he left it by the body of the stepfather.

Mexican Drug Cartel Leader, Nicknamed "El Loco", Arrested For Dumping of 49 Decapitated Victims

I guess when you see the video of the 49 headless bodies being dumped on a road in Mexico as a warning to other drug cartels you might expect that the leader who called for the grisly executions might be called "El Loco" or "the Madman."  Well, Daniel Elizondo Jesus Ramirez, the leader of the Zetas drug cartel, has been arrested by the Mexican army for the dirty deed (as well as many others).

From the report at Yahoo News:

Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed "El Loco," AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico.

When the Mexican Army came to arrest Daniel Elizondo Jesus Ramirez, say authorities, Ramirez attempted to elude capture by shooting at troops and throwing a fragmentation grenade. Zetas commanders nicknamed The Shrimp and The Speaker have also been linked to the body dump, but officials have not yet apprehended them.

The mutilated bodies of 43 men and six women were found near Cadereyta, Mexico on May 13. Though the condition of the bodies made it difficult to identify any of them, some physical features and tattoos indicated that they may have been migrants from southern Mexico and Central America.

A graphic seven-minute video posted on the web last week allegedly showed gunmen dumping the bodies, and then flourishing a "narcobanner" "signed" by El Loco and two other alleged Zetas commanders.

As bad as this incident is...well, it's been only one of many recently - I'm sure everyone recalls the photos of the victims hung from a bridge overpass in Mexico - in fact, hardly a week goes by without one cartel sending a "message" to the authorities or to other cartels.  At the same time, when you read this article, do you get the same impression that I did that the Mexican army and officials knew exactly where "El Loco" was the whole time?

(Hat Tip:  Mary)

'El Loco' Arrested After 49 Beheaded Bodies Found


Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed "El Loco," AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico.

When the Mexican Army came to arrest Daniel Elizondo Jesus Ramirez, say authorities, Ramirez attempted to elude capture by shooting at troops and throwing a fragmentation grenade. Zetas commanders nicknamed The Shrimp and The Speaker have also been linked to the body dump, but officials have not yet apprehended them.

The mutilated bodies of 43 men and six women were found near Cadereyta, Mexico on May 13. Though the condition of the bodies made it difficult to identify any of them, some physical features and tattoos indicated that they may have been migrants from southern Mexico and Central America.

A graphic seven-minute video posted on the web last week allegedly showed gunmen dumping the bodies, and then flourishing a "narcobanner" "signed" by El Loco and two other alleged Zetas commanders.

The banner warned that the same fate would befall members of rival cartels, the police and the military. The video is still available on-line, though a version that was posted on YouTube has been removed. The first version that appeared on YouTube was posted by someone who claimed to be a Zeta.

After the bodies were discovered in Cadereyta, the Zetas posted new "narcobanners" throughout Northern Mexico condemning the murders, but Mexican officials claimed they had only done so to create confusion about responsibility for the deaths.

The Zetas, who dominate much of eastern and northern Mexico, are battling the Gulf cartel and the Sinaloa cartel for dominance in Nuevo Leon and other Mexican states. Founded by former members of the Mexican military, the Zetas have a reputation for violence.

During a press conference in Mexico City, Brig. General Edgar Ruiz Villegas Melendez alleged that "El Loco" had been told to dump the bodies in the town square of Cadereyta but instead chose to dump them on a nearby highway. Villegas claimed that Ramirez, who was arrested Sunday, had confessed to dumping the corpses and said he'd done so on the orders of Zeta leaders.

El Loco is also a suspect in the kidnapping, murder and dismembering of two women last year, one of them the girlfriend of an Army lieutenant. He was mistakenly reported killed during an operation to apprehend the alleged kidnapers. He sent a taunting message to the Mexican media that said, "I'm still alive ... El Loco of the Zetas."

Hezbollah At Our Southern Border

There have been numerous reports of Hezbollah activity in South America, Central America and Mexico and even some evidence of Hezbollah agent infiltration of the southern United States so this article at Family Security Matters is timely, in that it describes more about Hezbollah operations that are becoming more and more clear and more and more alarming.

In my view, the crisis of our southern border is relative to three threats:

1. The mass illegal immigration into America will drown our economy in economic burden
2. The infiltration of America by violent Mexican drug cartels
3. The infiltration of America by islamice terrorist groups intent on attacking our country

As you'll see from the article, one of the draws for Hezbollah to Mexico is the money available from the drug cartels there - Hezbollah has a voracious appetite for funding and their long time terror capabilities bring a commodity that the drug cartels are more than willing to pay for.

Hizballah Fundraising and Operations in the U.S. and Latin America


A series of recent law enforcement actions indicates the depth of Iranian-tied criminal activity in Mexico may be greater than previously known.

In October, a Texas-car salesman was arrested in connection with an Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington. Prosecutors say officials in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps believed they were dealing with a "large and sophisticated" Mexican drug cartel to carry out the hit. A $100,000 down payment on the hit shows the Iranians were comfortable dealing with the cartel representative, who in fact was a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant.

Earlier this month, prosecutors in Virginia unsealed an indictment charging a Lebanese man, Ayman Joumaa, with smuggling more than 100 tons of Colombian cocaine with the Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel. Hizballah, an Iranian proxy in Lebanon, "derived financial support from the criminal activities of Joumaa's network," the U.S. Treasury Department claimed earlier this year.

Hizballah has a long history of violent attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets. In 1983 the Lebanon-based group was accused of bombing the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 240 soldiers. Hizballah, along with its patron Iran, have been considered responsible for the attacks on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina in 1992 and a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994. Hizballah also has extensive contacts in Latin America and within the United States.

In the plot against the Saudi ambassador, suspect Manssor Arbabsiar allegedly told law enforcement agents following his arrest that "he was recruited, funded and directed by men he understood to be senior officials in Iran's Qods Force." While the complaint does not name the Zetas, it describes the cartel the Iranians thought that they were dealing with as having "engaged in numerous acts of violence, including assassinations and murders."

The law enforcement actions come amid a recent report citing Israeli intelligence saying Hizballah's funding from traditional state sponsors such as Iran and Syria has declined sharply. That financial crunch may be leading the Shiite group to build alliances with Mexican drug syndicates and increasingly fund its terrorist operations through profits from the lucrative South American cocaine trade.

If true, the U.S. law enforcement actions may further erode Hizballah's finances.

A Treasury designation, a criminal indictment and a civil lawsuit allege the Lebanese drug dealer Ayman Joumaa is part of a complex cocaine and automobile smuggling enterprise in the United States and West Africa that handles hundreds of millions of dollars each month. Some of those profits are routed to Hizballah through the Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB).

More than $300 million was wired into the United States through Lebanese financial institutions, according to the civil suit. The money laundering scheme allegedly involves at least 30 car dealerships throughout the country. As part of the investigation, federal agents raided a dealership in Tulsa.

"They're making big time money and it's going right into weapons acquisition, terrorist training, recruiting, corruption," DEA official Rusty Payne told Fox News. "Things needed to carry out terrorist attacks around the world. Some of the money is flowing back to the United States, back to these used car companies, to purchase more used cars to ship them to West Africa to sell those at a profit and then mix those used car proceeds in with the drug dollars."

The growing nexus between Hizballah and Mexican drug cartels allows the Iran-backed extremist group to make use of drug cartel transit routes to gain entry into the United States through its porous border with Mexico. Hizballah, in turn, offers Mexican syndicates expertise on smuggling and explosives as well as access to its drug trafficking networks in the Middle East and South Asia.

Iran-backed Hizballah and Mexican drug syndicates share "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts," former DEA operations chief Michael Braun told the Washington Times. "They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another they're all connected."

Braun also alleged that members of Iran's Quds Force are "commanding and controlling" Hizballah's criminal operations in Latin America.

Cases Show Operatives Smuggled In

A leaked September 2010 Tucson Police Department internal memo talks of growing ties between Hizballah operatives and Mexican drug trafficker. It notes an increasing use of improvised explosive devices and car bombs by Mexican DTO's that suggest a growing collusion with the Hizballah militant groups which specialize in such explosive devices.

Border authorities have also discovered a number of "narcotunnels" along the U.S.-Mexican border that are used by cartels to get narcotics into the U.S. from Mexico. "There is growing concern that Hezbollah is providing technology for the increasingly sophisticated narco tunnels now being found along the U.S.-Mexican border, which strongly resemble the types used by Hezbollah in Lebanon." noted national security consultant Douglas Farah during October 2011 testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

In a June 2010 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., called for "more intelligence gathering" on rising Hizballah criminal activity in Mexico. "Across states in the Southwest, well trained officials are beginning to notice the tattoos of gang members in prisons are being written in Farsi. We have typically seen tattoos in Arabic, but Farsi implies a Persian influence that can likely be traced back to Iran and its proxy army, Hezbollah."

A series of cases in the past decade offers examples of Hizballah activity in Mexico:

· In 2006, Salim Boughader-Mucharrafille was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a Mexican judge on charges related to operating a smuggling ring and organized crime. Boughader-Mucharrafille was a Mexican of Lebanese descent and owned a café in Tijuana. According to the 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel, he smuggled at least 200 "Lebanese nationals sympathetic to Hamas and Hezbollah into the United States" from Mexico. One of the individuals Boughader-Mucharrafille smuggled into the U.S. worked for Hizballah's television channel, al Manar.
· Trained Hizballah fighter Mahmoud Youssef Kourani entered the U.S. through the Mexican border in early 2001. According to court documents, "Kourani surreptitiously entered the United States by sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border in the trunk of a car." Kourani bribed an official at the Mexican consulate in Beirut, Lebanon, to grant him a Mexican visa. In 2005, Kourani pleaded guilty to providing material support to Hizballah and was sentenced to 54 months in prison.
· In July 2010, Hizballah leader Jameel Nasr was arrested in Tijuana, Mexico. Nasr was reported to have been charged with establishing a Hizballah network in South America consisting of Mexican nationals with ties to Lebanon to attack Israeli and Western targets. Nasr traveled regularly to Lebanon to receive instructions from the Hizballah leadership based there. Nasr was living in Tijuana during the time of his arrest.
· Jamal Yousef, a former member of the Syrian military and Hizballah agent, was arrested in April 2009 in New York. Yousef ran a weapons smuggling operation involving American assault rifles, hand grenades, explosives, and anti-tank munitions. The arms were stolen from U.S. forces stationed in Iraq and sent to Mexico where they were stored for future sale to the Colombian terrorist group, FARC, in exchange for drugs that would be brought into the U.S. through Mexican cartels.

Iran and Hizballah militants are making common cause with Mexican narco-traffickers as part of their broader, more global, asymmetric warfare against the United States. The threat is particularly menacing given Hizballah and Iran's active presence and extensive network in the broader Latin American region and state support from governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua.

In testimony before a House Homeland Security subcommittee, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, Roger F. Noriega, highlighted the danger posed to U.S. homeland security from growing Hizballah presence in Latin America, including Mexico:

"The more broad implication for U.S. homeland security is that Hezbollah—via Iran and Venezuela—has engaged the United States in an offensive strategy of asymmetric warfare on our doorstep. It is aiming to win the mental battle of attrition and the moral battle of legitimacy—particularly with the youth in Latin America. Unless our government recognizes and responds to their efforts, our ability to protect our interests and our homeland will be gradually and dangerously diminished."

Leader of Mexico's Most Violent Gang Arrested, Admits Ordering the Killings of 1500

Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, known as 'El Diego,' has been arrested in the Mexican city of Chihuahua and is now being held in Mexico City - this man represents one of the most violent gangs in all of Mexico and he has been reported to have admitted that he, personally, ordered the killings of upwards of 1500 people.

From the report at Sky News:

A man suspected of being the leader of one of Mexico's deadliest gangs has admitted ordering 1,500 killings.

There was a $1.2m (£730,000) bounty on offer for the 33-year-old's capture, which came after a gun battle between police and gang members.

Acosta, a former policeman, was paraded in front of the cameras in Mexico City following his arrest in the city of Chihuahua.

It is believed he was behind the attack in which an employee of the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, her husband and another man were killed last year.

The US has said they want to prosecute Acosta for their deaths and Mexican authorities say they expect to receive an extradition request.

You can see above that the U.S. definitely has a stake in the hide of Acosta but it will be interesting to see if Mexico will honor extradition.

Here's a bit more on how Acosta's La Linea gang fits into the drug cartel picture in Mexico:

La Linea is comprised of hit men and corrupt police officers who work as enforcers for the Juarez cartel, a notorious drug gang.

The Juarez cartel have been involved in a bloody three-year battle with the Sinaloa gang over the city's smuggling corridors.

You can see how Mexico is so messed up when you read that this monster is an ex-policeman and at the same time, you see that his gang is composed partly of corrupt policemen. Hell, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this guy gets sprung from his jail cell or prison cell before the next few weeks.

Gang Boss 'Behind 1,500 Killings' Arrested


A man suspected of being the leader of one of Mexico's deadliest gangs has admitted ordering 1,500 killings.

Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, known as 'El Diego,' is believed to be the leader of La Linea gang.

There was a $1.2m (£730,000) bounty on offer for the 33-year-old's capture, which came after a gun battle between police and gang members.

Acosta, a former policeman, was paraded in front of the cameras in Mexico City following his arrest in the city of Chihuahua.

It is believed he was behind the attack in which an employee of the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, her husband and another man were killed last year.

The US has said they want to prosecute Acosta for their deaths and Mexican authorities say they expect to receive an extradition request.

Police said he also admitted ordering a car bombing and an attack on a birthday party in which 15 people died, most of them teenagers.

La Linea is comprised of hit men and corrupt police officers who work as enforcers for the Juarez cartel, a notorious drug gang.

The Juarez cartel have been involved in a bloody three-year battle with the Sinaloa gang over the city's smuggling corridors.

Juarez, which is close to the border with America, is Mexico's most violent city with more than 3,000 murders last year linked to the drug trade alone.

Mexican Police Capture Kingpin of La Familia Drug Cartel

In the war against the vicious Mexican drug cartels, Mexican police have hit the jackpot in that they have captured Jose de Jesus Mendez who is the leader of the biggest drug cartel in the country, La Familia. This is huge.

From the report at Yahoo News:

Mexican police have captured the top boss of the notorious La Familia drug cartel in a raid on the central town of Aguascalientes, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

"The federal government has detained the top leader (of La Familia) Jose de Jesus Mendez," said security spokesman Alejandro Poire.

"This detention has destroyed the remaining command structure," he said, adding no shots had been fired in the raid that led to Mendez's capture.

Earlier, President Felipe Calderon sent a message on his personal Twitter account, saying: "A great blow by federal police against organized crime. One of the most wanted criminals captured. Congratulations."

La Familia is one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, and its stronghold is in Michoacan state where it has been battling the Los Zetas gang.

Now before we all put our feet up and rest easy, there are more drug cartels than you can shake a stick at and as can be expected, there's always going to be another to fill the vacuum but I think the overall excitement over this arrest is the fact that La Familia has been the largest and most organized. I gotta believe, however, that there is some sort of hierarchy in the organization which would leave someone else to head up La Familia but I'm not going to downplay what really is a significant win for the Mexican security forces.

(Hat Tip: Litehouse)

Mexican police capture top drug cartel boss


MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Mexican police have captured the top boss of the notorious La Familia drug cartel in a raid on the central town of Aguascalientes, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

"The federal government has detained the top leader (of La Familia) Jose de Jesus Mendez," said security spokesman Alejandro Poire.

"This detention has destroyed the remaining command structure," he said, adding no shots had been fired in the raid that led to Mendez's capture.

Earlier, President Felipe Calderon sent a message on his personal Twitter account, saying: "A great blow by federal police against organized crime. One of the most wanted criminals captured. Congratulations."

La Familia is one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, and its stronghold is in Michoacan state where it has been battling the Los Zetas gang.

The former head of La Familia, Nazario Moreno, was killed in December in a shootout with police. Classed among Mexico's seven major drug cartels, La Familia is considered the country's top producer of synthetic drugs.

It announced its arrival on the scene in October 2006, when its men walked into a bar and rolled five severed heads onto a dance floor.

La Familia was soon posing a direct challenge to the federal government, killing eight people in a grenade attack on a crowd celebrating Mexico's independence day on September 15, 2008.

In July 2009, it killed 16 police officers, 12 of whom were found in a heap on the side of a road.

The toll in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico has surpassed 37,000 since Calderon launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006.

33 People Killed In One Day In Northern Mexico

Authorities load the bodies of two bodyguards of the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico on June 15. In total, 33 people were killed in the city in one day.


Just yesterday, 33 Mexicans were brutally murdered in the northern area of Mexico called Nuevo Leon (which includes the city of Monterrey). That's right...not a typo...33 people killed in ONE day. Hell, we have seen huge suicide bombings in Iraq and in Pakistan that don't kill that number of people in one day.

From the story at Breitbart:

Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon, home to the industrial city of Monterrey, saw 33 killings Wednesday, in the most violent day in recent history, officials said Thursday.

The prosperous region, home to many foreign companies, was until recently considered a safe haven as drug violence increased in parts of Mexico.

But a bloody turf war between the Gulf cartel and its former hitmen the Zetas has spilled into the state in less than two years, producing daylight shootouts, grenade attacks and a climate of fear.

A spokesman for Nuevo Leon government, who requested anonymity, said 33 violent killings were recorded in and around state capital Monterrey, an area of some four million, on Wednesday.

Many of Wednesday's killings bore the signs of drug gang vendettas, including the discovery of the mutilated corpses of two bodyguards of State Governor Rodrigo Medina, along with a message allegedly from the Gulf gang.

At what point in time is the situation in Mexico going to be labeled correctly? When will it be called by it's true name? An insurgency. This isn't a land of some spotty violence or gang fights...this is a campaign of terror and intimidation and death. And it will continue moving north. Yes...across our border.

33 killed in violent in Mexico's Nuevo Leon


Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon, home to the industrial city of Monterrey, saw 33 killings Wednesday, in the most violent day in recent history, officials said Thursday.

The prosperous region, home to many foreign companies, was until recently considered a safe haven as drug violence increased in parts of Mexico.

But a bloody turf war between the Gulf cartel and its former hitmen the Zetas has spilled into the state in less than two years, producing daylight shootouts, grenade attacks and a climate of fear.

A spokesman for Nuevo Leon government, who requested anonymity, said 33 violent killings were recorded in and around state capital Monterrey, an area of some four million, on Wednesday.

Before then, the highest number recorded were 18, on May 20, including 14 in a deliberate fire in a jail in Apodaca town.

Many of Wednesday's killings bore the signs of drug gang vendettas, including the discovery of the mutilated corpses of two bodyguards of State Governor Rodrigo Medina, along with a message allegedly from the Gulf gang.

Parts of Mexico, particularly near the US border, have seen a rise in suspected drug violence, with more than 37,000 deaths blamed on drug gangs since the launch of a military crackdown on organized crime at the end of 2006.

Mexican Police Raid La Familia Drug Cartel Ranch, 11 Killed

Finally, some good news coming out of Mexico as one of major drug cartels in the country had its ranch raided by Mexican police - the subsequent firefight left 11 drug cartel members dead, 36 members arrested and the best news of all, three of the top leaders of La Familia were taken into custody. Two Mexican police officers were wounded.

Now, the question comes into play just what will happen to these drug cartel leaders...will they stand trial and be sent into the darkest prison for 25 - 50 years or will there be some money changing hands and a "disturbing the peace" sentence handed down with 500 hours of community service decreed?

Yeah, I don't want to make a bet on it either.

The story is from Family Security Matters.

Mexican Cops Storm Drug Cartel Hideout Killing 11



Mexican police officers reported Saturday that they've killed at least 11 La Familia drug cartel members after an intense shoot-out at the crime gang's western Mexico ranch, a U.S. DEA agent told the Law Enforcement Examiner

Two officers were reported to have sustained wounds during the police raid that succeeded in capturing 36 gang members, including three of the top cartel leaders.

The DEA source said the arrests should help in weakening La Familia, which has a reputation for brutality and extreme violence on both sides of the U.S._Mexico border, but is defended by Mexico's local communities as a generous group that promotes Christian values.

Besides drug trafficking and human smuggling, La Familia is known for extortion and kidnapping, and much like the Colombian FARC, attempts to portray itself as a populist left-wing group that defends members of Michoacan society from the brutality of government forces or rival cartels.

La Familia primarily smuggles large shipments of cocaine into the United States along Mexico's Pacific coast. The gang produces and traffics the synthetic drug methamphetamine, a stimulent that is longer lasting and more deadly than cocaine.

La Familia shocked Americans and other nations in 2006, when its members allegedly tossed five decapitated heads into a Mexican nightclub with a sign that read: "Only those who deserve to die will die."

Mexican federal police officials said that the La Familia drug cartel is responsible for shooting-down a police helicopter on Tuesday. The helicopter is reportedly one of those given to Mexico by the United States as part of the Merida Initiative.

The Merida Initiative, a program begun during the Bush Administration in 2007, provides about $1.6 billion in law enforcement support to Mexico and Central American countries. The U.S. Department of State manages the Initiative while other U.S. agencies play key roles in its implementation.

Police officials told the news media that they had planned the raid following an informant's tip regarding a "sitdown" between alleged gang members at a ranch in Jalisco state, near the cartel's stronghold of Michoacan.

Federal police commissioner Facundo Rosas, during a press conference after the raid, said that among those arrested were three top members of the cartel.

"They were hiding in Jalisco, waiting for instructions from their boss and planning an attack on a group which calls itself the Knights Templar, with which they're at war," Mr Rosas told reporters at the news conference.

The police commissioner described the Knights Templar as former members of La Familia, who had split from the cartel after the killing of La Familia leader Nazario Moreno by Mexican federal police last December.

Besides the 11 dead and 36 captured cartel members, police officers reported they had seized 70 long-range weapons and 14 pistols, many of them handcrafted with gold, silver, diamonds and rubies. They also secured more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition and enough body armor to outfit 40 members.

In 2009, 303 individuals in the United States were arrested as part of Project Coronado, which targeted the distribution network of La Familia, through coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement.

More than 3,000 law enforcement agents and police officers operated throughout the U.S. to make the arrests during the takedown. During the two-day operation alone, $3.4 million in U.S. currency, 729 pounds of methamphetamine, 62 kilograms of cocaine, 967 pounds of marijuana, 144 weapons and 109 vehicles were seized by law enforcement agents.

Two U.S. Citizens Shot Dead At Mexican Border

Two American men, waiting on the Mexican side of the border at a California border crossing were shot dead while in their pickup truck yesterday. Let me make sure we are clear here...these two Americans were in their truck INSIDE MEXICO while waiting to cross back into their home country of America and were shot to death in their truck.

Here's some of the report at Yahoo News:

Two workers shot to death on Monday while waiting to cross the border from Mexico into the United States were American citizens, the U.S. State Department said.

The two men were riding in a pickup truck and about to cross into California at the San Ysidro border crossing point when they were gunned down on Monday afternoon, local authorities said.

Sergio Salcido Luna, 25, and Kevin Joel Romero, 28, were found dead in the vehicle having been shot several times. A small amount of marijuana was recovered from the scene, local law enforcement said.

"We can confirm that two U.S. citizens were shot to death at a Tijuana border crossing yesterday," the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

The two men worked for a beverage maintenance company in southern California, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Apparently, the Mexicans are trying to blame this on drug cartels but twice in the story we see that the pair had only a very small amount of marijuana in the truck - so who the hell killed these two Americans? Is this dejavu in regards to the American shot in cold blood in Mexico by Mexican security forces? Or was this really drug cartels? And where is the news on this coming from the Federal government?

These two Americans were probably a football field away from American soil and are now dead and I'm not hearing much from our State Department or the DOJ or Homeland Security. What is the response from the Mexican government? Why isn't the death of two Americans in Mexico making news, people?

Two U.S. citizens killed at Mexico border


TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Two workers shot to death on Monday while waiting to cross the border from Mexico into the United States were American citizens, the U.S. State Department said.

The two men were riding in a pickup truck and about to cross into California at the San Ysidro border crossing point when they were gunned down on Monday afternoon, local authorities said.

Sergio Salcido Luna, 25, and Kevin Joel Romero, 28, were found dead in the vehicle having been shot several times. A small amount of marijuana was recovered from the scene, local law enforcement said.

"We can confirm that two U.S. citizens were shot to death at a Tijuana border crossing yesterday," the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

The two men worked for a beverage maintenance company in southern California, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

San Ysidro is the busiest border crossing in the world, handling 50,000 vehicles each day crossing north from Tijuana along with 25,000 people on foot.

It is also used by traffickers ferrying drugs and undocumented immigrants north while illegal weapons head south to armed bandits in Mexico's bloody drug war.

Baja California state prosecutors on Tuesday downplayed speculation that the slayings were linked to the drug trade, and said that a small packet of marijuana in Salcido Luna's possession was likely for personal use.

In September 2009, U.S. agents fired at three vans packed with about 70 illegal immigrants that tried to evade heavy security at the same crossing and pass into the United States. Three people in the vans and a motorist were wounded.

Did You Know That America Is Flying Spy Drones Over Mexico?

In this article at The Telegraph, I learned, for the first time, that the U.S. government has teamed up with Mexico to try and battle the drug cartels along the U.S./Mexico border by providing unmanned spy drones to fly along the border and gather intel on drug movements. Perhaps I'm a mushroom here but I had no idea this was going on. I find it interesting that the Mexicans are insisting that they are running this surveillance program - let's see...the drones are American, the pilots of the drones are American....hmmmm.

From the report:

The country's National Security Council said in a statement that the unmanned aircraft have flown over Mexico on specific occasions, mainly along the border with the U.S., to gather information at the request of the Mexican government.

The flights expand the U.S. role in the drug war, in which Americans already have been training Mexican soldiers and police as well as co-operating on other intelligence.

"When these operations are carried out, they are always done with the authorisation, oversight and supervision of national agencies, including the Mexican Air Force," the council said.

It said Mexico always defines the objectives, the information to be gathered and the specific tasks in which the drones will be used and insisted that the operations respected Mexican law, civil and human rights.

So, my next question is this - why aren't these drones equipped with hellfire missiles so when they happen upon five Mexican drug cartel vehicles who have their trucks loaded with drugs and members of the cartel present have automatic weapons, the hellfires can be loosed and rained down upon these Mexican terrorists? Why not?

Do we needs drones to tell us that there are drugs passing over the border into America? Do we need drones to tell us that the cartel people running the drugs are armed? Do we need drones to tell us where along the border they are coming in? Well, obviously, the answer to all those questions is a resounding "hell no." I guess one thing the drones could try to do would to determine the origination point of these drug cartel excursions but I like the idea better of adding the firepower.

Mexico allows US drones into its territory


The country's National Security Council said in a statement that the unmanned aircraft have flown over Mexico on specific occasions, mainly along the border with the U.S., to gather information at the request of the Mexican government.

The flights expand the U.S. role in the drug war, in which Americans already have been training Mexican soldiers and police as well as co-operating on other intelligence.

"When these operations are carried out, they are always done with the authorisation, oversight and supervision of national agencies, including the Mexican Air Force," the council said.

It said Mexico always defines the objectives, the information to be gathered and the specific tasks in which the drones will be used and insisted that the operations respected Mexican law, civil and human rights.

The drones "have been particularly useful in achieving various objectives of combating crime and have significantly increased Mexican authorities' capabilities and technological superiority in its fight against crime," the council said.

The drone operations were first reported on Wednesday by The New York Times.

Mexican politicians have often criticised the involvement of U.S. agencies on Mexican soil. Last week, the Mexican Senate voted to summon Mexico's ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, to talk about allegations that U.S. agents allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico as part of investigations into drug trafficking.

Mexican Sen. Luis Alberto Villareal said direct U.S. involvement "violates trust and undermines national sovereignty."

More than 35,000 people have died since President Felipe Calderón launched a stepped-up offensive against the cartels in late 2006.

Don't Look Now But There's a Full Fledged Terrorist Insurgency Going On In Mexico

At some point in time, the Mexican terrorists...yes, I said terrorists...will start to spill over the U.S. border and when that happens, we are going to be loading dead Americans onto pickup trucks and THEN we'll see if Washington, D.C. feels they need to do their job.

Look at this portion of the story at Breitbart that talks about a hit on a house just south of the U.S. border in Mexico and tell me that you can describe this any other way than a full fledged insurgency of terror:

Gunmen burst into a home in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed a woman and her two teenage daughters, state officials said Tuesday.

Authorities said the armed group opened fire in the home and killed the woman, 40, and her daughters, aged 17 and 15. A 29-year-old man in the house was also seriously wounded.

In a separate incident late Monday, nine people were injured when a grenade was tossed into a shop in the northeastern Mexican city of Matamoros.

Police said an unknown person hurled the device into a clothing store in Matamoros, a border city that is the scene of a turf battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas.

In the same region, 18 people were killed Monday in a series of attacks on a bus, a private car and public buildings.

Believe me, it's obvious...these aren't some sort of drug cartel hits - these are terror attacks. These are innocent people being mowed down by Mexican terrorists and if you think that the porous American border is going to stop these clowns, you're smoking something.

The Mexican government has lost control and the American government is shirking control and thus, the recipe for innocent lives on BOTH sides of the border is for death. Lots of death.

Woman, teen daughters slain in Mexico violence


Gunmen burst into a home in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed a woman and her two teenage daughters, state officials said Tuesday.

Authorities said the armed group opened fire in the home and killed the woman, 40, and her daughters, aged 17 and 15. A 29-year-old man in the house was also seriously wounded.

Ciudad Juarez is considered the most violent city in Mexico with some 3,100 murders last year, with 300 of the victims women, according to figures from Chihuahua state.

Most of the crimes are said to be due to turf battles between drug cartels fighting to control lucrative smuggling to the United States.

In a separate incident late Monday, nine people were injured when a grenade was tossed into a shop in the northeastern Mexican city of Matamoros.

Police said an unknown person hurled the device into a clothing store in Matamoros, a border city that is the scene of a turf battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas.

In the same region, 18 people were killed Monday in a series of attacks on a bus, a private car and public buildings.

More than 34,600 people have died in drug violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers and federal police in a widespread crackdown on the illegal cartels.

Holger Called It Back In August - Mexican Army Murdered American Citizen, Planted Evidence In Coverup

I'm usually a bit above doing the "I told you so" but hell, I told you so! LOL Back in August, I ran this blogpost regarding the murder of an American citizen by the Mexican army and how, in my estimation, this was a murder and a coverup - not a gunfight like the Mexican officials had claimed where American, Joseph Proctor, had first fired upon them with an automatic weapon.

Well, it's been four months since my prediction and now, the Mexican government has admitted to the fact that Joseph Proctor was murdered by Mexican troops and that a "throw down" weapon was placed on Proctor's body - several Mexican troops are under arrest.

First, let me excerpt what I had written back in the August post:

Let's look at the details of the shooting and killing of the American man, Joseph Proctor, on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico...from the article at the El Paso Times:


A Mexican soldier said that a U.S. citizen attacked an army convoy and was killed when troops shot him in self-defense outside the resort city of Acapulco, a police official said. The man's father said Monday that he found it hard to believe.
An army lieutenant told police that Joseph Proctor opened fire on a military convoy with an AR-15 rifle, forcing the soldiers to shoot back, said Domingo Olea, a police investigator in the western state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located.

Olea provided no further details on Proctor, who was found dead in his car early Sunday.

A Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said the army was investigating the lieutenant's claim. The official said Proctor might have been a passenger in the car, although nobody else was found with him at the scene.

Proctor's father, William Proctor, said he did not know of his son being involved in any illegal activity and did not believe he would have owned a gun or attacked soldiers.

He said Joseph had sometimes complained about being pulled over by Mexican security forces looking for bribes.

"He would get mad when the police pulled him over looking for payoffs," Proctor said.
Okay, now am I crazy here folks or does this little "story" by the Mexican army reek to high heaven? Let me break down this scenario with comments:

1. The Mexican army is renowned for stopping foreigners at check points and shaking them down for bribes and payoffs - Joseph Proctor had a history of vocalizing his objection to these shakedowns.

2. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, an American citizen in Mexico, where assault rifles are illegal, sudddenly comes into possession of an AR-15. By the way, the Mexican army uses American-made AR-15's. And it's my guess that if an American citizen actually WANTED to get an illegal assault rifle in Mexico, the only ones for sale would probably be AK-47's.

3. Joseph Proctor decided he was mad at the Mexican army so he decided to fire on an entire military convoy....from his car! That's right, Proctor was killed while in his car. Now I ask you, if you wanted to mow down a bunch of Mexican soldiers with a weapon the length of an assault rifle, would you be sitting in the front seat of your car?

4. There is no history of crime in Joseph Proctor's past and no history of gun ownership.

So, how about we cut through the bullshit afforded us by the Mexican army spokesman and call a spade a spade. Per Holger, here's what happened:

Joseph Proctor found himself stopped at a Mexican army security checkpoint. The soldiers found an "infraction" regarding his papers or his vehicle and they offered to let Proctor go if he were to hand over some compensation. Proctor lost it. He got mad as hell and resisted the shake down. Things got out of control and one of the soldiers responded by firing off several rounds from his AR-15 into the body of Joseph Proctor while he was inside of his car. Knowing that they made a helluva mistake, the Mexican army commander at the scene had a throwdown AR-15 placed in the car with Proctor and a story of his attack was developed.

Now, whether you believe my take on this story or not....WHERE is the bloody coverage of this story? I mean seriously...we have an American citizen dead at the hands of the Mexican army and not only is the State Department nor our Embassy people doing a damn thing to even investigate this, but there is zero coverage of this. Let's put the shoe on the other foot. How about a Mexican citizen with a visa for America is shot and killed by Arizona National Guard troops in Arizona - would that get any coverage? Wouldn't there be an international and Mexican outrage?

Well, since this happened several days ago and the only press it's getting is from a local Texas newspaper and a peon blogger named Holger...I guess we better just move on, huh?

Well, now that I've been proven right...what happens now? I read the story about the new revelation from Google (below) and I don't see a single mention of protest by the American government. I don't see a single reference from Barack Hussein Obama or Eric Holder. Where's the outrage? Where's the call for justice? Where's the call for the execution of the troops involved? How high up did the decision to plant the evidence go? How soon did Mexican President Calderon know the truth?

AP IMPACT: Mexico says its troops killed US man


MEXICO CITY (AP) — Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life.

The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. An AR-15 rifle lay in his hands.

His distraught girlfriend, Liliana Gil Vargas, was summoned to police headquarters, where she was told Proctor had died in a gunbattle with an army patrol. They claimed Proctor — whose green van had a for-sale sign and his cell phone number spray-painted on the windows — had attacked the troops. They showed her the gun.

His mother, Donna Proctor, devastated and incredulous, has been fighting through Mexico's secretive military justice system ever since to learn what really happened on the night of Aug. 22.

It took weeks of pressuring U.S. diplomats and congressmen for help, but she finally got an answer, which she shared with The Associated Press.

Three soldiers have been charged with killing her son. Two have been charged with planting the assault rifle in his hands and claiming falsely that he fired first, according to a Mexican Defense Department document sent to her through the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

It is at least the third case this year in which soldiers, locked in a brutal battle with drug cartels, have been accused of killing innocent civilians and faking evidence in cover-ups.

Such scandals are driving calls for civilian investigators to take over cases that are almost exclusively handled by military prosecutors and judges who rarely convict one of their own.

"I hate the fact that he died alone and in pain an in such an unjust way," Donna Proctor, a Queens court bailiff, said in a telephone interview with the AP. "I want him to be remembered as a hardworking person. He would never pick up a gun and shoot someone."

President Felipe Calderon has proposed a bill that would require civilian investigations in all torture, disappearance and rape cases against the military. But other abuses, including homicides committed by on-duty soldiers, would mostly remain under military jurisdiction. That would include the Proctor case and two others this year in which soldiers were accused of even more elaborate cover-ups.

While privately informing Proctor's family about his case, Defense Department officials have publicly refused to discuss it at all. The day after his death, Guerrero state prosecutors announced to reporters that Proctor was killed after attacking a military convoy.

His mother, angry that she kept reading news reports with that version of the events, has asked Defense Department officials to reveal publicly that soldiers were charged with planting the gun on her son. The department replied, in writing, that it would only do so after the soldiers had been sentenced.

Defense Department spokesman Col. Ricardo Trevilla told the AP to file a freedom of information petition. IT DID but was rebuffed with the explanation that information on the ongoing investigation was "classified as reserved for a period of 12 years."

Proctor's family, meanwhile, still doesn't understand why he was killed.

Donna Proctor said her son hated guns so much that he rejected her suggestion that he follow in her footsteps and become a court bailiff, a job that requires carrying a sidearm.

Instead, he become a construction worker and eventually started his own business in Atlanta, Georgia. Last year, he moved to Mexico's central state of Puebla with his Mexican-born wife and their young son, Giuseppe. The marriage foundered and his wife returned to Georgia.

Proctor stayed behind with his son and eventually met and fell in love with Liliana Gil Vargas, a waitress and mother of four. After a vacation in Barra de Coyuca, the beach town outside of Acapulco, the couple decided to move there. Proctor was saving up top to open a restaurant.

According to the document sent to his mother, the soldiers tried to stop Proctor and inspect his vehicle. They claim he fled, prompting one of the soldiers to shoot at him, hitting his car. The soldiers chased down the car and fired again, "wounding the driver who nonetheless continued to drive away, fleeing, crashing the car three kilometers down that road," the document said.

A superior officer in the patrol told the battalion commander what happened. The battalion commander sent another officer to the scene with the AR-15 rifle "in order to be placed in the vehicle, using the hands of the deceased to try to simulate an attack against military personnel," the document says.

For the family, there are many unanswered questions. Did Proctor really flee? Why would he have refused to stop?

Donna Proctor said he complained about being shaken down by Mexican police and soldiers but also spoke of being friendly with soldiers on the base near the home he was building in Barra de Coyuca.

"He was 32. He loved life. He loved his son and he wanted to work hard to give him something," she said.

Donna Proctor said Mexican Defense Department officials visited her recently in Long Island and compensated her for the cost of flying her son back to the U.S. and the funeral. She said she told them she wanted justice — and for the world to know what really happened.

"I told them I had no intention of this being the end of it," she said.

American Border Patrol Agent Survives Iraq War, Is Killed On American Soil By Mexican Invaders

It's beyond ironic to me that a young American soldier can fight through the deadly battles of the Iraq War, come home, begin work as a Border Patrol agent and subsequently lose his life, while he stands on American soil, to invading drug cartel terrorists from Mexico. But it's there for all of us to see. Border agent Brian Terry is dead because we have a Congress and a U.S. President who refuse to adequately protect the American people.

From the account of the story at Family Security Matters:

A decorated agent of the U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday night was shot and killed on the U.S. side of the Arizona-Mexico border while attempting to apprehend suspects who regularly victimize illegal immigrants, according to the leader of National Border Patrol Council Local 2544, the union that represents agents.

Border agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was on a stakeout with three other agents in a remote area north of Nogales when a gun battle erupted with the armed suspects, reported National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner. No other agents were injured, but one of the suspects was wounded in the shootout.

The Federal Bureau of Investigating is assisting in the investigation of the shooting. Investigators said that they have four suspects in custody and are searching for a fifth.

A Border Patrol agent for about three years, Terry also served in the military and had been deployed to Iraq. He died early Wednesday.

"It's amazing that Agent Terry survived a full-blown war, but was killed in his own country by foreign bandits," said former New York Detective Mike Snopes, who also served in military intelligence.

Let's cut through the bullshit here - we have drug cartel terrorists who simply are no different than al Qaeda. The likes of al Qaeda murder because Mo and allah tell them to while drug cartel terrorists murder because of money and power. What would the headlines of this story been if a national guard troop had been killed in Arizona by an al Qaeda assassin? But this story never even saw the light of day on the MSM.

Not only is our Federal government covered in the blood of Brian Terry, the MSM is complicit in covering up that government's negligence.

Let me play President for a moment. I would call a meeting with the President of Mexico. I would bring a photo of the dead body of Brian Terry and I would tell the Mexican leader that from this point forward, the U.S. will employ all military equipment and forces to kill every Mexican cartel member that sets one foot or one tire inside of the sovereign nation of America. And to that point, there more than likely will be citizens of Mexico killed in the process that are confused as invading drug cartel members. And finally, America demands the authority to send covert operations personnel INTO Mexico to subvert the activities of the cartels along the U.S. border.

Simple as that.

The message to Barack Hussein Obama and the Congress has to be be hammered home - NOT ONE MORE DROP OF AMERICAN BLOOD WILL BE TOLERATED. Has our President asked the Mexican President to station Mexican troops at the border to halt drug cartels from entering America? Has our President decided to assist the border patrol with national guard troops equipped to fight? Hell no. This is not a U.S. President - this is a spineless bumbling fool who is willing to shed American blood in hopes of securing a voting block for 2012.

Border Patrol Agent Murdered in Arizona


A decorated agent of the U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday night was shot and killed on the U.S. side of the Arizona-Mexico border while attempting to apprehend suspects who regularly victimize illegal immigrants, according to the leader of National Border Patrol Council Local 2544, the union that represents agents.

Border agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was on a stakeout with three other agents in a remote area north of Nogales when a gun battle erupted with the armed suspects, reported National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner. No other agents were injured, but one of the suspects was wounded in the shootout.

The Federal Bureau of Investigating is assisting in the investigation of the shooting. Investigators said that they have four suspects in custody and are searching for a fifth.

A Border Patrol agent for about three years, Terry also served in the military and had been deployed to Iraq. He died early Wednesday.

"It's amazing that Agent Terry survived a full-blown war, but was killed in his own country by foreign bandits," said former New York Detective Mike Snopes, who also served in military intelligence.

Bandits have long roamed border areas, robbing and sexually assaulting illegal immigrants as they cross into the country, according to police sources in Arizona.

"This is a sign that the politicians and bureaucrats are overly optimistic in their assessment that the borders are more secure now than at any point in our history. It showed just the opposite," Bonner said.

"Ironically, the biggest operation by the Obama Administration in Arizona is a lawsuit against the state's new law that was passed in order to fight the crime and violence perpetrated by illegal aliens," said Snopes.

"While distorting the results of his administration's actions regarding border security, President Obama appears more aggressive towards law enforcement officials like Sheriff Joe Arpaio [of Maricopa County, AZ]," he added.

Unfortunately, the Department of Homeland Security’s latest failure to protect the United State is a costly program to place crucial electronic surveillance systems along the U.S.-Mexico border that is years behind schedule. The security project is grossly over budget because Secretary Janet Napolitano's agency hasn’t adequately managed the contractor doing the work, according to a Washington, DC watchdog group.

As a result, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars will be wasted and the porous southern border will continue to be vulnerable despite the Obama Administration’s assurances that it’s as secure as it’s ever been. So far the troubled project, known as Secure Border Initiative Network, has cost the government $672 million although it’s nowhere near completion, according to Judicial Watch, a public-interest group that investigates political corruption.

After years of debates, congressional votes, government studies and political posturing by lawmakers, the so-called "virtual fence" continues to cause more problems than it solves, according to testimony at a session of the House Homeland Security Committee.

In a compromise that met with disappointment by those who advocate tighter border security, instead of walls or chain link fencing, the U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security Department created the concept of virtual fence security that includes surveillance cameras, motion or heat sensing detectors, radar, and supposed state-of-the-art control towers designed to detect and prevent illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States.

According to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police, the security contractor -- Boeing Co. -- is installing the hi-tech physical security system. The original plan called for a completion date by December 2009 at a cost of $1.1 billion for a virtual fence. According to the report obtained by NACOP, Boeing requested that completion date to be amended by seven years.

Physical security experts told this writer it should surprise no one that a relatively simple project would become complicated and unmanageable given that fact that most of the decision-makers probably have no law enforcement, security or engineering background.

The Obama initiative aims to enhance border security by designing technological tools that enable Border Patrol agents to detect and respond to incursions along unmanned stretches of the 2,000-mile Mexican border. This includes installing unattended ground sensors, radars and cameras. The so-called virtual fence was supposed to be completed by 2011, but Homeland Security officials recently pushed the date up to 2014, well after Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.

That’s because the agency has failed to properly oversee the project’s prime contractor, resulting in costly rework, numerous delays and lots of extra money. In fact Homeland Security officials stood by as the contractor provided information that was “replete with unexplained anomalies, thus rendering the data unfit for effective contractor management and oversight,” congressional investigators found.

Three Americans Shot and Killed At Mexican Border, CNN Yawns

Boy, you want to talk about real investigative reporting (pardon me while I turn the sarcasm off here) then go to this CNN story that is supposed to detail the fact that three citizens of the United States of America were killed in cold blood this past weekend at the Mexican border. At that story, you'll find nearly zip - basically an obligatory post by CNN...you know, three Americans dead, no big deal.

From the "story":

Three Americans died in weekend violence in the area of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a U.S. official said.

"Two citizens were fatally shot early Sunday close to the Zaragoza international bridge," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Monday. "In a separate incident, another U.S. citizen was fatally wounded in Ciudad Juarez itself."

The circumstances of the Americans' deaths weren't immediately clear.

"First, we offer our condolences to the families of the victims," Crowley said. "We have been in touch with those families and are providing all possible assistance."

Crowley added, "We will support the Mexican government in the investigation that is already under way."

Well, you know...if this piece of shit from the State Department wants to gloss over these murders that's one thing but good grief, does anyone remember a time when a news reporter would get that kind of bullshit brushoff from a government official and then dive head first into the story and find out the truth? Did CNN even THINK about finding some witnesses in the area? Did they even check with local law enforcement? Are we even sure which side of the border the two murders at the bridge occurred on?

We have seen 432 reports about the three American hostages that were arrested by Iran but since the Left is interested in that drama, it gets play, but when three other Americans are literally killed...they get nothing. CNN gave three dead Americans 132 words. Why? Because the Left media in this country wants to be sure they don't do a damn thing to upset the amnesty movement in this country. Disgusting lot they are.

3 Americans shot to death near Mexico-U.S. border


(CNN) -- Three Americans died in weekend violence in the area of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a U.S. official said.

"Two citizens were fatally shot early Sunday close to the Zaragoza international bridge," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Monday. "In a separate incident, another U.S. citizen was fatally wounded in Ciudad Juarez itself."

Violence is rife in the area, as the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels battle for control of lucrative smuggling routes into the United States, where demand for illegal drugs is strong.

The circumstances of the Americans' deaths weren't immediately clear.

"First, we offer our condolences to the families of the victims," Crowley said. "We have been in touch with those families and are providing all possible assistance."

Crowley added, "We will support the Mexican government in the investigation that is already under way."

Mexican Drug Cartels Adopt the Tactics of Al Qaeda, 17 Mexican Mayors Assassinated In Two Years

Okay, some of you may still not be willing to refer to the forces of evil south of our border as an "insurgency" as I would describe it, but you should be able to identify them as terrorists with what has gone on recently in the targeting of public officials in Mexico.

From the report at Reuters via Breitbart:

The slaying of Sanchez, which police blamed on drug hitmen in marijuana-producing Michoacan state, underscored the vulnerability of elected officials as President Felipe Calderon intensifies his fight against powerful drug cartels.

Last week, suspected drug hitmen shot and killed the mayor of a rural town outside Monterrey, the northern business city with close U.S. ties. Another shooting hours later left a mayor-elect in northern Chihuahua state critically wounded.

Drug hitmen have killed at least 17 mayors across Mexico since early 2008, according to media tallies. Five of those have died in the past six weeks as gangs seek to control towns along key smuggling routes into the United States.

"They've threatened to kill me twice. They wanted me out of the way to have total control," said Mauricio Fernandez, the mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia near the Texas border, the country's richest municipality that is part of Monterrey.

This is all about intimidation and creating fear - that, by definition, is terrorism. And the fact that these are mayors, public officials, elected government members...well, that is what links it to the tactics that al Qaeda has used in many countries - especially Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Just about every week we hear of a Pakistani elected official being assassinated by terrorists (al Qaeda) and just about every week we hear of a Mexican elected official being assassinated by terrorists (drug cartels). You see? No difference.

Awhile back, the Mexican bad guys basically just snuffed out the officials that wouldn't play ball or who had gotten in the way - similar to gang and mafia tactics in America. But now, they are on a rampage of killing the title holder, not the individual - we've also seen this with the attacks on police and security officers in Mexico. The #1 target for al Qaeda in any location is the police station and police officers - if they can deplete the number of officers and intimidate all prospective replacements, they gain control of security...and we are seeing this now within a stone's throw of American soil and America lives.

Let's be big boys and girls and understand something - this border problem we have in America is literally weeks and months away from becoming way more than just an immigration issue - there are going to be dead Americans because of this and I'm telling you right now, there are some very specific people in Washington, D.C. that are going to have a LOT of blood on their hands.

Hitmen kill Mexican mayors as drugs war intensifies


(Reuters) - When criminals beat small-town mayor Gustavo Sanchez to death with rocks this week, Mexicans were horrified but no longer shocked by the latest attack on a local leader in the country's vicious drugs war.

The slaying of Sanchez, which police blamed on drug hitmen in marijuana-producing Michoacan state, underscored the vulnerability of elected officials as President Felipe Calderon intensifies his fight against powerful drug cartels.

Last week, suspected drug hitmen shot and killed the mayor of a rural town outside Monterrey, the northern business city with close U.S. ties. Another shooting hours later left a mayor-elect in northern Chihuahua state critically wounded.

Drug hitmen have killed at least 17 mayors across Mexico since early 2008, according to media tallies. Five of those have died in the past six weeks as gangs seek to control towns along key smuggling routes into the United States.

"They've threatened to kill me twice. They wanted me out of the way to have total control," said Mauricio Fernandez, the mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia near the Texas border, the country's richest municipality that is part of Monterrey.

The attacks on elected officials add a new element of fear to the fight against cartels in Mexico, where drug violence has killed over 29,000 people since Calderon launched his drug offensive when he took office in late 2006.

Cartels "have reached a point where they are prepared to confront the authorities in this country in a way that threatens the wider population," U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual told reporters last week.

Motives for the killings are not always clear. Police at times suspect murdered officials have upset drug gangs or were killed by hitmen who accused them of ties to rival cartels.

Calderon, a conservative, vowed to "redouble our fight against these criminals" after the killing last week of the second mayor murdered near Monterrey since mid-August.

The body of Prisciliano Rodriguez, mayor of the town of Doctor Gonzalez near Monterrey, was left on a rural road, his white Stetson hat sitting nearby, after gunmen shot him on Thursday evening.

Officials blame the surge in violence around Monterrey and in neighboring Tamaulipas state on the rivalry between the Gulf cartel and its former armed wing, the Zetas.

Many residents in Monterrey and surrounding Nuevo Leon state, once an oasis of calm and prosperity, are terrified.

"Doctor Gonzalez is a no-man's land. It was just a matter of time before this happened," said a local resident who declined to give his name. "No one goes out at night."

This week, a cartoon in El Diario newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, the violent city across from El Paso, Texas, showed a mayor with a giant bull's eye on his cowboy hat.

WELL PAID BUT VULNERABLE

Winning a spot as mayor can be the start of a long, lucrative political career in Mexico, and many mayors have relatively high salaries, even those running small towns.

But mayors are also reliant on ill-equipped and often corrupt local police for protection, making them easy targets for drug gangs who have infiltrated police forces across Mexico.

The mayor of the town of Santiago near Monterrey was abducted last month by his own police and handed over to the Zetas to be killed, preliminary state investigations show.

Some among a slew of new mayors who take office for a three-year term in October already received threats from cartels during their election campaigns.

The government says it is doing everything it can to keep public officials safe. "We're working hard to identify those who may be at greater risk," Mexican national security spokesman Alejandro Poire told reporters on Tuesday.

Few mayors are as fortunate as Fernandez, who was tipped off by U.S. authorities about a murder plot last year and who has the support of some of Mexico's biggest companies in his plan to spend $50 million on reforming his police force.

Fernandez is known across Mexico for creating a paramilitary squad to go after kidnappers shortly after taking office -- though he says it has since been disbanded.

Officials in Chihuahua, Mexico's most violent drug war state, feel extremely vulnerable despite the army presence.

"I don't know how the government is going to look after the security of the new mayors near Ciudad Juarez. There is so much fear," said Victor Quintana, a leftist lawmaker in Chihuahua.

Is the Mexican Army Covering Up Their Murder of an American Citizen in Acapulco?

I heard of this incident the other day while listening to The Wilkow Majority on Sirius radio and since I haven't seen it anywhere else, I thought it deserved some attention here at Holger Awakens. What with all of the criticism that the United States has taken from Mexico and its President about our "tolerance" of illegals in our country, I found it interesting that the Mexican army goes ahead and kills an American citizen in their country and seemingly, at least in my eyes, seeks to cover it up.

Let's look at the details of the shooting and killing of the American man, Joseph Proctor, on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico...from the article at the El Paso Times:

A Mexican soldier said that a U.S. citizen attacked an army convoy and was killed when troops shot him in self-defense outside the resort city of Acapulco, a police official said. The man's father said Monday that he found it hard to believe.
An army lieutenant told police that Joseph Proctor opened fire on a military convoy with an AR-15 rifle, forcing the soldiers to shoot back, said Domingo Olea, a police investigator in the western state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located.

Olea provided no further details on Proctor, who was found dead in his car early Sunday.

A Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said the army was investigating the lieutenant's claim. The official said Proctor might have been a passenger in the car, although nobody else was found with him at the scene.

Proctor's father, William Proctor, said he did not know of his son being involved in any illegal activity and did not believe he would have owned a gun or attacked soldiers.

He said Joseph had sometimes complained about being pulled over by Mexican security forces looking for bribes.

"He would get mad when the police pulled him over looking for payoffs," Proctor said.

Okay, now am I crazy here folks or does this little "story" by the Mexican army reek to high heaven? Let me break down this scenario with comments:

1. The Mexican army is renowned for stopping foreigners at check points and shaking them down for bribes and payoffs - Joseph Proctor had a history of vocalizing his objection to these shakedowns.

2. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, an American citizen in Mexico, where assault rifles are illegal, sudddenly comes into possession of an AR-15. By the way, the Mexican army uses American-made AR-15's. And it's my guess that if an American citizen actually WANTED to get an illegal assault rifle in Mexico, the only ones for sale would probably be AK-47's.

3. Joseph Proctor decided he was mad at the Mexican army so he decided to fire on an entire military convoy....from his car! That's right, Proctor was killed while in his car. Now I ask you, if you wanted to mow down a bunch of Mexican soldiers with a weapon the length of an assault rifle, would you be sitting in the front seat of your car?

4. There is no history of crime in Joseph Proctor's past and no history of gun ownership.

So, how about we cut through the bullshit afforded us by the Mexican army spokesman and call a spade a spade. Per Holger, here's what happened:

Joseph Proctor found himself stopped at a Mexican army security checkpoint. The soldiers found an "infraction" regarding his papers or his vehicle and they offered to let Proctor go if he were to hand over some compensation. Proctor lost it. He got mad as hell and resisted the shake down. Things got out of control and one of the soldiers responded by firing off several rounds from his AR-15 into the body of Joseph Proctor while he was inside of his car. Knowing that they made a helluva mistake, the Mexican army commander at the scene had a throwdown AR-15 placed in the car with Proctor and a story of his attack was developed.

Now, whether you believe my take on this story or not....WHERE is the bloody coverage of this story? I mean seriously...we have an American citizen dead at the hands of the Mexican army and not only is the State Department nor our Embassy people doing a damn thing to even investigate this, but there is zero coverage of this. Let's put the shoe on the other foot. How about a Mexican citizen with a visa for America is shot and killed by Arizona National Guard troops in Arizona - would that get any coverage? Wouldn't there be an international and Mexican outrage?

Well, since this happened several days ago and the only press it's getting is from a local Texas newspaper and a peon blogger named Holger...I guess we better just move on, huh?

US man killed by Mexican soldiers near Acapulco


ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - A Mexican soldier said that a U.S. citizen attacked an army convoy and was killed when troops shot him in self-defense outside the resort city of Acapulco, a police official said. The man's father said Monday that he found it hard to believe.
An army lieutenant told police that Joseph Proctor opened fire on a military convoy with an AR-15 rifle, forcing the soldiers to shoot back, said Domingo Olea, a police investigator in the western state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located.

Olea provided no further details on Proctor, who was found dead in his car early Sunday.

A Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said the army was investigating the lieutenant's claim. The official said Proctor might have been a passenger in the car, although nobody else was found with him at the scene.

Proctor's father, William Proctor, said he did not know of his son being involved in any illegal activity and did not believe he would have owned a gun or attacked soldiers.

"I doubt that. Joseph had a temper but he didn't use guns," Proctor said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his home in Auburn, New York.

William Proctor said Joseph, 32, had lived off and on in Mexico for at least six years. He said his son had been in the process of divorcing his wife in Georgia and lived with a girlfriend and their young son in Mexico. He said he had little contact with his son and was unsure what Joseph did in Mexico but that he had worked in landscaping in the U.S.
He said Joseph had sometimes complained about being pulled over by Mexican security forces looking for bribes.

"He would get mad when the police pulled him over looking for payoffs," Proctor said.

Olea said the Mexican girlfriend, Liliana Gil Vargas, identified Proctor's body. She gave Mexican authorities identification papers that listed Proctor as a resident of Georgia.

In brief comments to Mexican reporters, Gil said she last saw Proctor on Saturday night when he went out to run an errand at a convenience store in Barra de Coyuca, a community outside of Acapulco.

Gil said the couple had been living in the central state of Puebla, near Mexico City, but had moved to Barra de Coyuca four months ago.

Joseph Proctor's mother, Donna Proctor, declined to speak to the AP when reached by telephone at her home in Hicksville, N.Y.

A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said consular officials in Acapulco had been in contact with Proctor's family and were providing assistance to repatriate his body. The spokeswoman declined to be named, in line with Embassy policy.

Soldiers frequently come under attack from drug-trafficking gangs in the Acapulco area and there have been cases across Mexico of innocent bystanders dying in the crossfire between soldiers and drug gangs, or of soldiers opening fire on civilians who failed to stop at checkpoints.

The military has faced mounting allegations of human-rights abuses since President Felipe Calderon deployed thousands of soldiers in 2006 to fight drug traffickers in their strongholds.

In November 2009, American Lizbeth Marin was shot to death in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. Mexican newspapers reported that Marin was hit by a stray bullet fired by a soldier participating in a raid.

More recently, two Mexican university students were killed in March in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen and soldiers outside the gates of their campus in the northern city of Monterrey.