Texas Republican: Put Mexican Drug Cartels on State Dept’s List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations:

Friday, April 01, 2011

By Penny Starr

CNSNews.com) – Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) introduced legislation on Wednesday that would direct Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) – a designation that would put them on the same list as al Qaeda, the Taliban and Hezbollah.

[b]The designation by the State Department also would make the named cartels subject to the same sanctions as other terrorist organizations, including the freezing of the cartels’ monetary assets and the criminal prosecution of those that provide “material support or resourcesâ€