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Title: Drug cartel reportedly plotted to blow up Texas dam
Source: [None]
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
Keywords: None
Views: 190
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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#1. To: Horse (#0)

Don't any of you rush to judgment - keep in mind that they're just trying to put bread on the table for their families - they're doing work that Americans won't do.

scrapper2  posted on  2010-06-04   3:01:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Horse (#0)

U.S. officials said they had "serious and reliable sources" informing them of the plot,

Really ???

"Rebellion is natural when governments become "revolting. YOU only count when it's census or TAX time" ... bend over and lick the hand that beats you !

noone222  posted on  2010-06-04   6:08:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: noone222 (#2)

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.

Expropriate British Petroleum.

randge  posted on  2010-06-04   6:34:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: randge (#3)

You really don't know what to believe these days out of LE & so called gov't.

No question about that ... and either way, whether true or simply an advertisement for government instigated terror ... the issue is now set before us.

"Rebellion is natural when governments become "revolting. YOU only count when it's census or TAX time" ... bend over and lick the hand that beats you !

noone222  posted on  2010-06-04   7:06:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: randge, noone222 (#3)

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.

The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie

Horse  posted on  2010-06-04   9:32:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Horse (#5)

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.

Expropriate British Petroleum.

randge  posted on  2010-06-04   10:02:48 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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