And we are arming the enemy just like in Afghanistan.
"Border gun shop owners sue over rule" August 06, 2011|Associated Press
PHOENIX - Gun store owners in states along the Mexican border have sued the acting director of the federal agency that oversees firearms to halt a new requirement that they alert authorities if someone buys multiple high-powered rifles in a five-day span.
The requirement, which goes into effect Aug. 14, follows a controversial 2009 law enforcement operation in Arizona known as “Fast and Furious’’ that resulted in more than 2,000 high-powered weapons making their way to Mexico as authorities investigated people directing gun buys on behalf of cartels.
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There is even talk they will be brought north to subdue rebellious and riotous Americans.
The operation has been the subject of recent congressional hearings in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives acknowledged making mistakes....
What a great job of obfuscation as well as omission.
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"US boosting role in Mexico’s fight against cartels; Nations step up effort to enhance their cooperation" August 07, 2011|By Ginger Thompson, New York Times
WASHINGTON - The United States is expanding its role in Mexico’s bloody fight against drug trafficking organizations, sending new CIA operatives and retired military personnel to the country, and considering plans to deploy private security contractors in hopes of turning around a multibillion-dollar effort that has shown few results.
Unreal.
In recent weeks, small numbers of CIA operatives and US civilian military employees have been posted at a Mexican military base, where, for the first time, security officials from both countries are working side by side in collecting information about drug cartels and helping plan operations.
Related:
"the US Drug Enforcement Administration helped by providing information."
So is the CIA going to stop running drugs?
Officials are also looking into embedding a team of US contractors inside a specially vetted Mexican counternarcotics police unit. Officials on both sides of the border said the new efforts have been designed to get around Mexican laws that prohibit foreign military and police from operating on its soil, and to prevent advanced US surveillance technology from falling under the control of Mexican security agencies with long histories of corruption.
“A sea change has occurred over the past years in how effective Mexico and US intelligence exchanges have become,’’ said Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico’s ambassador to the United States. “It is underpinned by the understanding that transnational organized crime can only be successfully confronted by working hand in hand, and that the outcome is as simple as it is compelling: we will together succeed or together fail.’’
Welcome to the New World Order!
The latest steps come three years after the United States began increasing its security assistance to Mexico with the $1.4 billion Merida Initiative and tens of millions of dollars from the Defense Department.
This as the SuperCongress is going to slash your social services, America.
They also come a year before elections in both countries, when President Obama may face questions about the threat of violence spilling over the border, and President Felipe Calderon’s political party in Mexico faces an electorate that is almost certainly going to ask why it should stick with a fight that has left nearly 45,000 people dead.
And QUESTIONS about GIVING the DRUG GANGS the GUNS!
Related: U.S. Government Brings Drug War to U.S. Cities
Say what?
In the last three years, officials said, exchanges of intelligence between the United States and Mexico have helped security forces there capture or kill some 30 mid- to high-level drug traffickers, compared with two such arrests in the previous five years.
Are we winning yet?
The United States has trained nearly 4,500 new federal police agents and assisted in conducting wiretaps, running informants, and interrogating suspects.
Oh, the U.S. has INSTIGATING INFORMANTS INVOLVED, and INTERROGATED (that means tortured) suspects, huh?
Yup, the U.S. is OCCUPYING Mexico!!
The Pentagon has provided sophisticated equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters, and in recent months it has begun flying unarmed surveillance drones over Mexican soil to track drug kingpins.
Related: US drones secretly aid Mexico drug war
Not so secret anymore.
Still, it is hard to say much real progress has been made in crippling the brutal cartels or stemming the flow of drugs and guns across the border. Mexico’s justice system remains so weakened by corruption that even the most notorious criminals have not been successfully prosecuted....
Right, blame it all on the Mexicans!
US officials declined to provide details about the work being done by the US team of fewer than two dozen Drug Enforcement Administration agents, CIA officials and retired military personnel from the Pentagon’s Northern Command.
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Related:
America's Third War: The U.S. Cut a Deal With the Sinaloa Cartel, Say Court Documents
U.S. federal agents allegedly cut a deal with the Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed it to traffic tons of narcotics across the border, in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to documents filed in federal court.
Fast and Furious: Report Says Sinaloa Cartel Has Enough U.S. Guns to be an Army
The result, according to the report, is the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico now has enough weapons to launch a Mexican government take-over
Also see:
Mexico records steep decline in immigration outflow
Anti-tech group sent bomb, Mexico says
UPDATE: Insider: CIA Orchestrated Operation Fast and Furious -gov allowed Mexican drug cartel to import tons of cocaine
