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Title: Drug cartel reportedly plotted to blow up Texas dam
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100603/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2382
Published: Jun 4, 2010
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2010-06-04 02:48:19 by Horse
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Views: 195
Comments: 6
Mexican and U.S. authorities were "secretly scrambling" last month to thwart a Mexican drug cartel's plot to blow up a Texas dam that would have flooded an area with about 4 million inhabitants, according to the Houston Chronicle's Dane Schiller and James Pinkerton. Law enforcement officials were reportedly tipped off to a plot when they found one of the handbills that the drug cartel Los Zetas was distributing on the Mexican side of the river, warning residents to clear out ahead of the explosion. Authorities found "small amounts of dynamite near the dam," the Chronicle said. Los Zetas wanted to blow up the Falcon dam not to hurt civilians, but to exact revenge on a rival gang called the Gulf Cartel, which smuggles drugs in the area, local authorities said. The gang has also been implicated in armed robberies of Texan fishermen in Lake Falcon, the reservoir behind the dam. U.S. officials said they had "serious and reliable sources" informing them of the plot, the Chronicle reported. Officers placed hidden cameras on the dam and hid in the brush to watch. Police Capt. Francisco Garcia of Roma, Texas, told the Chronicle that the traffickers would have needed a tractor-trailer full of dynamite to pull off the explosion.
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#2. To: Horse (#0)
Really ???
You really don't know what to believe these days out of LE & so called gov't. Nevertheless, whether it was a genuine threat or not, you know that it's a secondary national priority. We have hundreds of billions to throw at chasing the miserable Taliban all around miserable Afghanistan.
I heard Alex Jones talk about a Mexican drug gang in southern California that
tried to blow up a police station. Last month I read of the Zetas
simultaneously attacking two Mexican army bases.
One of these days, things will get bad enough and you'll see a sea change politically. They'll need to send a Pershing south to deal with some of these characters.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestU.S. officials said they had "serious and reliable sources" informing them of the plot,
#3. To: noone222 (#2)
Really ???
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