Thread: Major Gun Battle In Mexico Reported

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Major gun battle in Mexico reported

1:22 pm PDT -- American Border Patrol has learned from a reliable source that there is a major gun battle on-going in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. More than 100 people have been killed. Word is that the government may pull the National Guard off the border because it fears a confrontation if people head north.


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the government may pull the National Guard off the border

What the heck...sounds like we need to make sure the can protect themselves and US

we need to be adding armed troops with the order protect this country!!!!

Originally Posted by redbadger

the government may pull the National Guard off the border

What the heck...sounds like we need to make sure the can protect themselves and US

Ya... and then they are going to enforce the border when the new legislation is passed? Amazing.

This is really the worst government our country has ever seen.

Police commander killed as Mexican authorities continue manhunt

07:56 PM CDT on Friday, May 18, 2007
By LAURENCE ILIFF / The Dallas Morning News
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MEXICO CITY – A police commander was shot to death in the Sonora state capital as hundreds of police and soldiers intensified their manhunt Friday for suspected cartel gunmen who killed five officers near the border with Arizona, authorities said.

State Investigative Police Cmdr. Pedro Emigdio Córdova Herrera had gotten out of his department-issued truck late Thursday in Hermosillo when gunmen lying in wait fired at least five times, hitting him twice in the head, police said.

It was unclear if the killing was related to the clash between state police and as many as 50 Gulf cartel gunmen in Arizpe, about 70 miles southeast of Nogales.

At least 17 of the gunmen were killed when state police fired at their vehicles from a helicopter as they tried to escape into the hills on Wednesday. Earlier that day, the gunmen killed five police officers in the nearby town of Cananea, just 30 miles from the U.S. border, after traveling there in as many as 15 vehicles.

Rumors early Friday that the gunmen planned a new attack on Cananea, a mining town of 30,000, caused schools and businesses to close, along with the evacuation of City Hall. Fears spread to nearby communities, but police said there was no evidence that an attack was imminent.

According to police, some of the surviving gunmen may have melted into the local population or boarded buses and left the area, but at least 10 of them were believed to still be in the mountains near Arizpe. Of the four suspects captured Thursday, two are former army soldiers, authorities said.

Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours said that the slain police in Cananea were involved with drug traffickers and that one of the detained gunmen is a Hermosillo municipal police officer, the Hermosillo newspaper El Imparcial reported Friday.

Cananea is a key point along drug trafficking routes to the U.S., analysts and officials have said, and is part of a turf war between the Gulf cartel based along the Mexico-Texas border and the Sinaloa cartel based on the Pacific Coast south of Sonora.

Control of the town, and its police, appears to be the motive for the initial attack against police there in the early-morning hours Wednesday, analysts and officials said.

Michael Marizco, editor of borderreporter.com, said control of Cananea has changed hands between the Sinaloa and the Gulf cartels depending on alleged police complicity with one group or the other.

"What's going on here is that this was a strike back" by the Gulf cartel, said Mr. Marizco, whose Web site is dedicated to news and analysis along the Sonora-Arizona border.

Federal Public Security Minister Genaro GarcÃ*a Luna said earlier this week that the Cananea police killings were carried out by the Gulf cartel. Its paramilitary enforcement arm, the Zetas, is partially made up of former army soldiers.

Francisco Gómez, a reporter for the Mexico City newspaper El Universal, contributed to this report from Cananea, Mexico.

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Word is that the government may pull the National Guard off the border because it fears a confrontation if people head north.

Seems to me that our President has a sworn duty to do exactly the opposite....