Thread: Mexicans bomb US Embassy!

mrlogical wrote:

"why don't we start trying to collect and post the names and cities of where these illegal drug runners live, and start a database of them, especially the ones threatening our citizens and OUR lawmakers? it would be great if our lawmakers would post the thug-drug names and their pictures too, let's expose them to the world"
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Here you go:

DEA Names Eleven 'Most Wanted' Mexican Fugitives Sought by U.S.

(Pictures of each at this link:) http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/46528

April 14, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the first time has listed the eleven most-wanted Mexican drug-crime fugitives sought by the United States.

The fugitives, all Mexican nationals, are members of Mexican drug cartels that are now considered to be the top organized crime threat to the United States, responsible for murderous violence along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years.

“We thought [the list] was appropriate based on the violence in Mexico,â€

April 12, 2010

Consular Bomb Raises Concerns

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By NICHOLAS CASEY

MEXICO CITY—An attack over the weekend on the U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, the second against U.S. government employees on the Mexican border in less than a month, highlights the mounting safety risks to U.S. outposts in the area from drug violence.

Late Friday evening, unknown attackers threw a bomb onto the patio of the Nuevo Laredo consulate. The blast shattered windows, but occurred after hours and injured no one, the consulate said. Mexican authorities are investigating.

The bomb came less than a month after a grisly attack on people associated with the Ciudad Juárez consulate, which left three people dead. On March 12, hit men chased a pregnant consulate employee and her husband, along with a third man in a separate car, through city streets in broad daylight, gunning them all down. Mexican authorities say an El Paso drug gang was involved in the killings.

A connection between the two attacks appears unlikely given the regions are controlled by different drug organizations. Still, the events underscore an emerging truth in the Mexican drug war: Despite the fact that the U.S. government outposts are officially uninvolved in the fighting, the diplomatic employees are being drawn into the storm.

"We've seen an increase in this type of violence in Nuevo Laredo this year, and that's true of all the consulates along the border, including Monterrey," said Brian Quigley, a State Department consular spokesman. He said both the Nuevo Laredo and nearby Piedras Negras consular agency would remain closed until "we have adequate security to keep our visitors and staff safe."

This isn't the first attack. In October 2008, two men fired a gun and threw a grenade at the U.S. consulate in Monterrey, Mexico's northern business capital. The grenade didn't explode. Nuevo Laredo's consulate was closed for several days in 2005 by then-U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza following a gun battle between warring gangs close to the consulate.

The U.S.-Mexico border once stood out as a relatively peaceful assignment in the U.S. Foreign Service. Relations between the countries were friendly and cross-border business boomed. Employees could maintain a house on the other side of the border or visit relatives there.

The U.S. has built a string of well-staffed embassy outposts in the region including Ciudad Juárez, the largest American consulate in the world with 300 employees. Others along the border include consulates in Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, Tijuana and Nogales, along with smaller consular agencies in Ciudad Acuña, Piedras Negras and Reynosa. But the situation has been changing the past few years.

In 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderón decided to crush the powerful drug organizations by deploying military and federal police throughout the country. Four years later, the most notable result appears to have been an increase in violence: Nearly 18,000 have been killed in fighting since 2006.

Mexicans have been a target of most of the violence. This weekend, video emerged of gunmen mowing down eight people, including a 14-year-old girl, in the northern town of Creel last month; on Sunday, the body of a Mexican journalist was found in the central state of Michoacán with his throat slit. The family of Enrique Villicana Palomares, a columnist for the daily newspaper The Voice, reported him missing last week. Both cases are being investigated for drug connections.

Mexican security forces are responsible for protecting U.S. diplomatic missions in the country, a task some say they may not be up to. "They haven't taken it seriously," says Alberto Islas, private security consultant in Mexico City, of Mexico's federal and local police.

Mexican police in Nuevo Laredo didn't immediately respond to a call for comment. Mr. Quigley, the consular spokesman said there was an "excellent working relationship" with Mexican authorities.

Still, Mr. Islas says, U.S. efforts to beef up security in its facilities—with perimeter fences, for example—haven't been matched by their Mexican counterparts, like limiting traffic next to consulates to pedestrians.

Mr. Quigley, the consular spokesman, says consulates constantly conduct their own reviews of security. "I would say we've taken the appropriate security measures based on the incidents that have happened," he says.

Authorities are still probing what happened Friday. F.B.I agents and officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were in Nuevo Laredo to investigate this weekend, the consulate said. A surveillance tape may offer clues to what happened Friday, and has been turned over to Mexican authorities performing their own inquiry.

http://online.wsj.com

WHY IS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PROTECTING THE BORDER IN KOREA, AND LEAVING OUR BORDER WITH MEXICO WIDE @ OPEN SOME HOW THIS DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT I HATE TO SAY THIS, BUT IF THEY DO START HURTING THOSE WHO ARE IN GOVERNMENT, MAYBE THEY WILL FINALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Originally Posted by mami

Originally Posted by ShockedinCalifornia

Just think of how many U.S. police departments and ICE offices might be bombed if these people are legalized. Then it really will be like bloody Mexico.

I, firmly believe Obama is going to give all this criminals the Immigration
Reform, 11.5 million of illegals and we are struggling with unemployment?
i,wonder if Janet Napolitano,Hillary,And Obama are working with us or
against us!! what do you think?

ITS OBVIOUS THAT THEY ARE AGAINST US

Originally Posted by mami

Originally Posted by rewhblcain

Originally Posted by mrlogical

why don't we start trying to collect and post the names and cities of where these illegal drug runners live, and start a database of them, especially the ones threatening our citizens and OUR lawmakers? it would be great if our lawmakers would post the thug-drug names and their pictures too, let's expose them to the world

Probably be easier if we post the ones that are not involved with the drug trade. :lol:

Let me tell you something!! Calderon the president of Mexico is very aware about where this cartels live and the State Of Sinaloa are protecting them the governor and all the politicians are doing the same thing Calderon is no different, I, don't understand why Hillary and Janet Napolitano whent to Mexico a month ago to deal with this people giving them your tax payers money and my money, this problem is going to stop until Obama send the Army and Marines, to the border and stop this criminals for good by 2011 it'll be to late.

WHY IS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT GIVING MONEY TO THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT WHAT IS THEIR DRUG CARTELS? MAYBE THIS IS WHY THOSE ON SOCIAL SECURITY DIDN'T RECEIVE A COLA THIS YEAR. THEY HAVE BEEN STEALING FROM THE SS TRUST FOR YEARS AND I REALLY WOULDN'T PUT IT PASS THE GOVERNMENT TO BE GIVING THEM MONEY FROM THAT TRUST WHILE AMERICAN CITIZENS STRUGGLE.