Mexican military crosses line

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:39 pm

That's a great article MikeJ! Since they burned a Humvee that got stuck, we should be able to find out for sure where that Humvee was from. Like there's any doubt...

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:47 pm

Paladin wrote:That's a great article MikeJ! Since they burned a Humvee that got stuck, we should be able to find out for sure where that Humvee was from. Like there's any doubt...

That's going to provide some very interesting evidence, provided it doesn't get "lost".

Kevin

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:27 pm

Fox is reporting the same story with some new details:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182650,00.html

The best part:

"It is possible that these actions were designed to damage the image of our armed forces," -The Mexican Foreign Relations Department

LOL

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:57 pm

MikeJ wrote:Humvees and "mounted machine guns" were sighted. Somebody sure went to a lot of trouble and expense to masquerade as the Mexican Army.

You'd be surprised how many people just want to look like the Mexican Army. They get all dressed up in Mexican Army uniforms, mount M-2's on their Ford Explorers and disguise them to look like Hummers. Just today, another Mexican diplomat assured us that it's only people the "look like the Mexican Army".

Our government is not worried. We can "regularize" them, put them on the Guest Worker Program and let them do the work that Americans won't do.

Like escorting drug shipments across the border.

By the way, the burned out vehicle in the river is one of the escaping SUV's that became stuck and couldn't be towed out by the Humvees.

ShootingStar · Post by **ShootingStar** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:58 pm

Whatcha think guys? Wanna go down to the border for a little vacation?

I hear the Texas MM will be going down in April?

Scott Murray · Post by **Scott Murray** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:17 am

The solution's actually easy. We should deploy a squadron of helicopter gunships along the border; spread out, so that a couple are always close. Set up communications so that any border patrol or LEO can quickly request help, and give them liberal rules of engagement.

Then we can use forensic evidence to figure out who these guys really were.

If any Mexican diplomats protest, we can always claim the gunships might have been Mexican military.... with U.S. markings painted on. :)

jbirds1210 · Post by **jbirds1210** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:05 am

Scott,
Your plan does not sound nearly as inviting to those in the Forensic line of work!

Plan B?
Jason

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:27 pm

Mexican Foreign Minister Derbez stated yesterday that the alleged "Mexican Army" personnel were actually American troops dressed to look like the Mexican Army.

This is from a public statement.

stevie_d_64 · Post by **stevie_d_64** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:54 pm

nemesis wrote:Mexican Foreign Minister Derbez stated yesterday that the alleged "Mexican Army" personnel were actually American troops dressed to look like the Mexican Army.

This is from a public statement.

Yeah...This is getting good...Like the playground mentality of:

"I'm rubber, you're glue...Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!"

Or in spanish:

"Soy caucho, usted es el pegamento...Cualquier usted dice los botes de mÃ y de los palos a usted!"

Esteban yo soy mue macho! eh?

Switching back to english now...

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:11 pm

nemesis wrote:Mexican Foreign Minister Derbez stated yesterday that the alleged "Mexican Army" personnel were actually American troops dressed to look like the Mexican Army.

This is from a public statement.

This is getting hilarious!

MikeJ · Post by **MikeJ** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:33 pm

They're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! See the story at http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/6666879/detail.html.

SJRTX · Post by **SJRTX** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:34 pm

Excerpt from the article posted above me:

"After this latest incident on Tuesday night, the U.S. Border Patrol reports that they were contacted by Mexican authorities who admitted the men were Mexican soldiers. Border Patrol Assistant Chief Robert Boatright told KFOX "Mexican officials got in touch with our Mexican liaison unit to advise us that they had requested the assistance of the Mexican military and that they were down in Hudspeth County." But he tells us this contact only occurred after the Mexican soldiers had been spotted by the Sheriff's Deputy.

Wednesday afternoon, the Mexican Consulate released a statement saying the heavily armed men were not Mexican Soldiers, but were State Police, investigating last week's smuggling incident. Consulate officials say the men will be in the area for the next several days."

Friggin Mexico, what a bunch of goons. They cant even get the facts straight.

Kalrog · Post by **Kalrog** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:53 am

Facts? I am sure they can get the "facts" straight.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:10 pm

An update:

http://www.borderlandnews.com/apps/pbcs ... /1001/NEWS

excerpt:

"West also said Thursday that new evidence is supporting his claim. He said that U.S. federal officials from an agency he did not want to name had been able to read the so-called identification plate off a Humvee at the scene and tracked it to the Mexican military.

The ID plate is a number given by military outfits to their vehicles, West said. It is usually on the front of the vehicle, much like a license plate.

West said the findings were passed on to Mexican officials.

Both the Mexican army and the Mexican attorney general's office are investigating the incident and have not concluded their work, Mexican officials said.

Officials of the Mexican attorney general's office in JuÃ¡rez could not comment on whether they had received the identification plate information. They and officials from the Mexican Consulate in El Paso also denied rumors that arrests had been made in the case. Mexico's exterior relations secretary officials have identified some of the men seen in photographs of the Hudspeth County incident as smugglers and posted their names on the agency's Web site."

nemesis · Post by **nemesis** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:59 pm

The Sheriff of Brewster County testifed before a congressional committee that Mexican troops frequently drive their Hummers across the river to shop at Texas stores. I think he may be referring to Lajitas as it is right on the river.