U.S. Diplomatic Vehicles Fired Upon, Mexico City

[Kirk Freeman]

Near Tres Marias United States Diplomatic vehicle attacked from Mexican federal police vehicle. Three people injured.

The question that immediately springs to mind: how many Fast and Furious guns were used?

Gunmen attack U.S. diplomatic vehicle in Mexico - CNN.com

 

[CSORuger]

The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed that a U.S. diplomatic vehicle was "shot up" in Mexico, but said no DEA officers were involved in the incident.

Why were Mexican marines, driving a U.S. Embassy vehicle, with no US agents?

The Joint Staff Report revealed that the operation known and authorized at the highest levels of the Justice Department and which included agents from ATF, DEA, FBI, ICE, and the IRS, allowed guns to be illegally purchased in the United States and transported to Mexico to end up in the hands of members of drug cartels. This chain of events inevitably placed the guns in the hands of violent criminals which the Department of Justice not only was aware of, but sponsored and supported. The Department of Justice and its agency partners knew that the foreseeable result of this strategy was that death and destruction would occur in Mexico.

The New Cocaine Cowboys, How to Defeat Mexico’s Drug Cartels" (July/August 2010, p.25), the United States government’s plan to destroy the Cali and Medellin drug cartels in Colombia was based (as in this case) on giving carte blanche to rival cartels to continue their drug smuggling operations in the United States without concern for its associated death and destruction in both countries, in return for their assistance against the Cali and Medellin cartels. He makes it clear that in Colombia, "the objective was to dismantle and destroy the Cali and Medellin cartels-not to prevent drugs from being smuggled into the United States or to end their consumption"
The United States government considered the arrangements with the Sinaloa Cartel an acceptable price to pay, because the principal objective was the destruction and dismantling of rival cartels by using the assistance of the Sinaloa Cartel-without regard for the fact that tons of illicit drugs continued to be smuggled into Chicago and other parts of the United States and consumption continued virtually unabated.

 

[badwolf.usmc]

Why were Mexican marines, driving a U.S. Embassy vehicle, with no US agents?

The article does not say that, all it says is that a U.S.Embassy vehicle was attacked and three Mexican Marines were injured. It could be that they were passengers inside the vehicle, or they were all part of a convey in which their vehicle was hit as well.

My guess would be that our vehicle had some kind of advisers in it and the Mexican police were providing a vehicle/s for an escort.

 

[9mmfan]

I would put money on the fact that all northern local and federal police in Mexico are bought and paid for by the cartels. It's time to extend a 5 mile 'security zone' into Mexico. Plant a million land mines and fence it off. Only have one border crossing per state.

 

[mrjarrell]

Read a different article that has the police firing on the embassy vehicle and wounding 2 people, though the article says it was one Mexican marine. That's what I initially thought when reading the original article. Gotta wonder what they were thinking. Damn good thing the car was armoured.

Mexico police open fire on US embassy staff - Americas -

 

[Blackhawk2001]

I would put money on the fact that all northern local and federal police in Mexico are bought and paid for by the cartels. It's time to extend a 5 mile 'security zone' into Mexico. Plant a million land mines and fence it off. Only have one border crossing per state.

I've got to ask: why in the world would we place a US national security zone on Mexican soil? I could go with doing it on our side of the border, though, million landmines and all.

 

[BrianJacobsen]

We've been at war with Mexico for at least twenty years. Probably more. Now it's just starting to heat up and be a little more above the radar.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I've got to ask: why in the world would we place a US national security zone on Mexican soil?

Why? Because we chose sides in the cartel wars.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I interviewed ATFE yesterday at the gun show.

They denied knowing if Fast and Furious guns were used in this crime.

 

[mrjarrell]

I wouldn't expect F&F guns to be used by the Mexican police that shot the vehicle up. We just flat out sell the guns to those guys.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I wouldn't expect F&F guns to be used by the Mexican police that shot the vehicle up. We just flat out sell the guns to those guys.

True, but lots of people running around in Mexican police uniforms. Does not mean that they are the po-leece.

 

[mrjarrell]

True, but lots of people running around in Mexican police uniforms. Does not mean that they are the po-leece.

Perhaps, but in this case it was the police. Not imposters.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

In Mexico anything is possible.

 

[ghunter]

The maxim "Civis Americus sum" used to have meaning, like "Civis Romanus sum" did a long time ago. Those days are over.

 

[mrjarrell]

Looks like it was Mexican cops that shot up the vehicle. The Mexican presidente' is even apologising for it.

Mexico leader regrets US embassy car shooting - Americas -

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Looks like it was Mexican cops that shot up the vehicle. The Mexican presidente' is even apologising for it.

Holy vaca!

.gov on .gov violence?

 

[mrjarrell]

Looks like things are still being investigated. It's slowly working its way up the chain of command.

Mexico focus on police commanders in CIA shooting - Yahoo! News