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Title: Mexico Claims GI's Aid Pot Smugglers
Source:
Yahoo News
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060126 ... oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
Published: Jan 26, 2006
Author: AP
Post Date: 2006-01-26 18:01:33 by Zipporah
Keywords: Smugglers, Mexico, Claims
Views: 232
Comments: 4
2 hours, 49 minutes ago MEXICO CITY - Mexico's top diplomat suggested Thursday that American soldiers disguised as Mexican troops may have been in the military-style Humvee filmed earlier this week protecting a marijuana shipment on the border. ADVERTISEMENT Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez also told a news conference that U.S. soldiers had helped drug smugglers before. However, he offered no evidence. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico made no immediate comment on Derbez's claims. His comments came a day after U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza issued a statement asking the Mexican government to "fully investigate" the border incident. Monday's armed standoff began 50 miles east of El Paso, Texas, when Texas state police tried to stop three sport utility vehicles on Interstate 10. The vehicles made a quick U-turn and headed south toward the border, a few miles away. Crossing the border, one SUV got stuck in the Rio Grande River, and men in a Humvee tried in vain to tow it out. Then a group of men in civilian clothes began unloading what appeared to be bundles of marijuana and torched the SUV before fleeing. Mexico insisted Wednesday that the men in military-style uniforms were drug smugglers, not soldiers. In Mexico, kidnappers and drug smugglers regularly wear police gear, which is sold at street stands. Derbez said Thursday that the men photographed by Texas law enforcement could have been Americans. "Members of the U.S. Army have helped protect people who were processing and transporting drugs," Derbez said. "And just as that has happened ... it is very probable that something like that could have happened, that in reality they were members of some of their groups disguised as Mexican soldiers with Humvees." Three U.S. soldiers have pleaded guilty to running a cocaine smuggling ring from a U.S. base in Colombia, and a fourth is being tried in Texas this week. Derbez said there was no proof that the men seen in the incident were Mexicans. Derbez also said his country will send a diplomatic note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanding that U.S. officials tone down their comments on Mexico's security and immigration problems
This handout photo provided by the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office shows people on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande River, Monday, Jan. 23, 2006, removing bundles of what appeared to be drugs from an SUV that got stuck in the river after a chase by U.S. law enforcement agents along the U.S./Mexico border. (AP Photo/Hudspech County Sheriff's Office/Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition,HO)
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Proof! Proof? We don't need no stinkin proof!
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestDerbez said there was no proof that the men seen in the incident were Mexicans.
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