ICE Agents Shot in Mexico Were Targeted, Ambushed, Law Enforcement Source Claims

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ICE Agents Shot in Mexico Were Targeted, Ambushed, Law Enforcement Source Claims


Posted by Bill Conroy - February 15, 2011 at 9:28 pm

U.S. Agents Were Participating in Training With Mexican Law Enforcers
[SEE UPDATE BELOW: New sources now claim training mission was a "cover story"]


A group of armed Zetas, dressed in black, earlier today shot two U.S. federal agents on a Mexican highway after setting up a roadblock ambush, according to a law enforcement source with inside knowledge of the attack.
One of the agents is dead, the other is “clinging to life” in a hospital in Mexico City, the source says.
“They [the two agents] were targeted,” the law enforcer adds. “They [the assailants] knew they were agents.”
The law enforcement source who spoke with Narco News says one of the agents is from San Antonio, the other from El Paso, Texas. Both had been sent to Mexico on temporary duty to participate in training with Mexican law enforcers, the source says.
Multiple media outlets are reporting some details of the shooting, which involved two agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
The incident allegedly took place along a main highway connecting Mexico City and Monterrey.
Members of the Mexican military had escorted the agents from Mexico City to Monterrey, where the agents participated in training sessions. However, the two agents, for unknown reasons, left Monterrey early, according to the source, to attend other meetings. As a result, they were not under military escort on that return trip to Mexico City this afternoon, which is when they were ambushed.

The agents were driving a black SUV with diplomatic plates. After their vehicle was stopped, with the road in front of them and behind them blocked off (a tactic typically employed by professional assassins), several armed men dressed in black approached the agents’ SUV.
The men, according to the source, are presumed to be members of Los Zetas— a paramilitary narco-trafficking organization that counts among its leadership former elite members of the Mexican military.
As the armed men walked toward the ICE agents’ SUV, they motioned the agent in the driver seat to roll down his window, according to the source, recounting the initial reports from the scene.
“He did a little, and that’s when they opened fire,” the source reports. “The windows on the SUV are dark, so it is my opinion that they wanted make sure they had the right people.”
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, in a prepared statement, confirmed that one agent died and another was critically wounded (shot in the arm and leg) in the attack.
“I’m deeply saddened by the news that earlier today, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents assigned to the ICE Attaché office in Mexico City were shot in the line of duty while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey by unknown assailants,” Napolitano said in a prepared statement.
Napolitano added: “U.S. law enforcement agencies are working closely with Mexican authorities who are investigating the shooting to ensure the perpetrators of this unconscionable crime are captured as quickly as possible. …”
The law enforcement source who spoke with Narco News says he is confident the information he has so far on the attack is on the money, but adds that details are still coming in on the shooting and its aftermath.
“The situation remains very fluid,” the source adds.
Stay tuned ....

UPDATE 11:25 p.m. 2/15/11​

New information has just come in concerning the background and alleged mission of the two ICE agents who were shot in Mexico earlier today.
Additional law enforcement sources have weighed in on the story and contend that the two ICE agents were on what one described as an under-the-radar mission that involved transporting a box containing an unknown payload, though it is suspected that the box contained weapons. The two agents were expecting to meet up with another group of agents to exchange the box, the law enforcers contend.
“So they were either tailed or there’s a mole somewhere who tipped them [the Zetas] off to the operation,” a law enforcement source told Narco News.
That same source described the box transfer operation as being very unusual and possibly part of some kind of “black op” — meaning it might have dovetailed with an intelligence operation.
The new information also contradicts the original information reported by Narco News in some areas. The law enforcement sources contend that is because a cover story had to be created and it is now starting to intersect with the real story.
For example, the information now coming in, which is from several law enforcement sources, indicates the agents were not involved in any type of training operations, but rather that was a cover for their trip. In addition, in the latest version of events, the agents who were shot were driving north from Mexico City heading toward Monterrey when they were ambushed by the Zetas. (A law enforcement source told Narco News originally that the two agents were heading south from Monterrey toward Mexico City.)
Also, both agents were, in fact, permanently assigned to the ICE attaché office in Mexico City and not on temporary assignment, as originally reported.
One of the agents did work in El Paso for a time in the mid-2000s, but the other agent grew up in Brownsville and launched his ICE career in Laredo, the sources contend. Neither of the agents was from San Antonio, as originally reported, according to the new information coming into Narco News.
The driver of the SUV, the sources add, survived the attack and was initially medevaced to a hospital in Mexico City but has since been transferred to an unknown hospital in the Houston area, the sources say. The passenger, however, died of gunshot wounds to the chest “and other unknown areas,” the law enforcement sources say.
“The two [agents] were going to Monterrey from Mexico City to transfer a box to agents in Monterrey [who were to meet them halfway on the trip]. It is unknown what was in that box, but it’s possible it was guns,” a law enforcement source says.
The details of the ambush are essentially the same as originally reported. However, the new information coming into Narco News includes a few more details, such as the fact that the windows on the SUV were bullet proof.
“When the agent on the passenger side rolled down his window, the unknown male [the alleged Zeta] pulled a gun and started firing through the crack in the window, hitting the passenger in the chest, and other areas, while the driver was hit in the arm and leg,” a law enforcement source says. “The driver took off immediately [somehow getting around the roadblock]. It’s really a miracle they weren’t chased down and killed then and there.”
As further updates come in, the story will be advanced, and corrected where necessary. Bear with the twists and turns in the story, kind readers. You are getting a street-level view of the scene, which is always a bit foggy as agents on the ground continue to investigate the crime, working through the conflicting information to get at the truth.
Stay tuned…..




http://narcosphere.narconews.com/no...e-targeted-ambushed-law-enforcement-source-cl

 

[ddrew]

Feds meddling around where they shouldn't be, with "secret payloads" and such.

Serves them right

 

[W.Less Monk]

Good riddance, i hope it's just a beginning..

F**k the pigs dead..

 

[Iraganji]

Well, they create prohibition and start a "War". What did they think, it wouldn't be a war?

 

[Hydrosun]

Have foreign operatives ILLEGALLY smuggle weapons to their enemies in a secret mission, gee why would an armed group be upset about that?

Score one for the good guys.

 

[ddrew]

The guys were in a bullet proof vehicle too, dumb fucking fed got shot when he rolled down the window.

It kinda defeats the purpose of bullet proof glass when you roll down the window dumbass.

 

[W.Less Monk]

The guys were in a bullet proof vehicle too, dumb fucking fed got shot when he rolled down the window.

It kinda defeats the purpose of bullet proof glass when you roll down the window dumbass.

..Made me laugh ddrew, thank you for that nice moment..

Muhahahaaahaaa..!!

 

[Milhouse]

I might be wrong but I thought you were not able to roll down windows on a bullet proof car? Thought I saw some History Channel deal on that, glass is too thick and heavy.

 

[ddrew]

The details of the ambush are essentially the same as originally reported. However, the new information coming into Narco News includes a few more details, such as the fact that the windows on the SUV were bullet proof.
“When the agent on the passenger side rolled down his window, the unknown male [the alleged Zeta] pulled a gun and started firing through the crack in the window, hitting the passenger in the chest, and other areas, while the driver was hit in the arm and leg,” a law enforcement source says. “The driver took off immediately [somehow getting around the roadblock

Not only did they get shot as a result of rolling down the bullet proof window, apparently they weren't even blocked in to begin with.

Massive fed fail

All the high tech tools in the world aren't worth a thing when they're in the hands of a couple dumbasses.

 

[Hydrosun]

And if you aren't a complete dumbass would you work for the government? Classic they're screwed no matter what situation.

 

[wiseone]

This is what happens when they put a badge on their chest.....they become public enemy #1.
Guess I'll shed a tear.....NOT!!!!

 

[Madrus Rose]

Well, they create prohibition and start a "War". What did they think, it wouldn't be a war?

Nail on the head Iraganji ...some other articles on the same site :

Re-Legalize Marijuana: A Better Way to Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels
http://www.newagecitizen.com/MERP/RelegalizeNowObama04.htm​

First consider a hypothetical situation. You are being chased by a huge mad dog and you have 2 choices. One, you could stand you ground and fight the dog. Or, two, you could slip inside a nearby room and simply close the door. Obama’s plan can be compared to “fighting the dog,” whereas my plan, the immediate implementation of the MERP Model, could be compared to simply “closing the door.” I think it will become apparent that “closing the door” has two incredible advantages: (1) you won’t get hurt and (2) you will easily be able to resolve the problem by retrieving your gun or calling animal control​

Of course the “mad dog” in this analogy would be the Mexican Drug Cartels who have infiltrated over 230 American cities and have shown themselves to be as well equipped as our own military forces. Perhaps that is because we actually gave military training to the most dangerous Cartel Drug Gang: the Zetas. In any case the Mexican Drug Cartels are a most formidable opponent indeed. Of course the only reason they are able to afford these weapons is because they are sending about 38 Billion, in United States consumer dollars, south to Mexico each and every year ​

According to Lou Dobbs, Obama’s “fighting the dog” plan consists of the following:​

The plan calls for sending 100 ATF agents to the southwest border, adding 16 new DEA positions, tripling the number of intelligence analysts and stepping up screening of railcars headed southbound to Mexico, part of the effort to stop the flow of drugs and keep violence from further spinning out of control. ​

Here’s how Iraqi War correspondent Michael Ware accessed Obama’s proposed plan:​

“Well, you certainly have to applaud any measure. But I have to say, from what I've seen so far in Mexico -- and I'm about to be spending a lot more time there -- this is a drop in the bucket, finger in the dike stuff. ​

He then basically concluded that in order to fight 100,000 highly militarized drug cartel members, we would have to intervene militarily or legalize the drugs. Or as he put it: ​

“You either legalize these things, and cut the demand, or you're going to have to intervene.”​

Now any thinking American should now realize that Obama’s “fighting the dog “ plan will result in numerous US casualties and there is very little chance that it will destabilized the Mexican Drug Cartels.​

But we don’t have to legalize all drugs: just Marijuana. Let me briefly explain:​

70 percent of the Mexican Drug Cartel profits ($38 billion a year) are generated from the sale of Marijuana in the United States. So if you simply allow personal cultivation, by American Citizens, the Mexican Drug Cartels would literally be eliminated within weeks. And without even regulating or taxing Marijuana it would keep at least $27 Billion dollars in the US economy each year after Marijuana Re-Legalization is fully implemented.​

 

[Madrus Rose]

But intstead of the above we get this , the militarization of the mexican Border & a mini War :

$100 Million Drug-War Garrison Approved for U.S.-Mexican Border
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/no...-drug-war-garrison-approved-us-mexican-border

Posted by Bill Conroy - December 22, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Complex Will Prepare Soldiers, Law Enforcers to Cope with Mexican Civil War, Founder Says

A small county board in southern California has just ushered in the era of the paramilitarization of the U.S. border by approving plans for a private, $100 million, 1,000-acre military and law enforcement training camp spearheaded by a former Navy Seal sniper who also has done work for the U.S. intelligence community.

The Imperial County Board of Supervisors earlier this week approved the project, to be developed near the small rural border town of Ocotillo, Calif., by a company called Wind Zero Group Inc. The supervisors, at a meeting held Tuesday, Dec. 21, voted 4-1 in favor of allowing the border garrison project to proceed toward construction, despite stiff community opposition, according to news reports.

The vote came after several postponements that pushed the final decision back to just days before the Christmas holiday, almost assuring scant press coverage of what is likely to become, absent effective organized opposition, the prototype for future private paramilitary-style training “camps” along the U.S.-Mexican border.
The planned Wind Zero training center is not unlike a similar project proposed several years ago in southern California by the private paramilitary company Blackwater (since renamed Xe Services LLC — which also was founded by former Navy SEALs). Blackwater pulled the plug on that controversial project in early 2008 due to community opposition.

Opponents of the camp proposed for Ocotillo have speculated that Xe is somehow involved behind the scenes in the Wind Zero effort as well — though no solid evidence of that theory has materialized to date and Wind Zero officials contend that, in fact, they consider Xe to be a competitor.

However, among the backers of the Wind Zero project is former Navy Captain and RAND Senior Management Systems Analyst John Birkler , who serves as a director of Wind Zero, according to SEC filings.

RAND bills itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank, but, in reality, it has a long history of close ties to the military and private-sector warfare complex.

RAND media spokesman Warren Robak told Narco News previously that “John Birkler and his involvement with Wind Zero is a private matter — it has nothing to do with RAND.”

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[MadBuddhaAbuser]

I might be wrong but I thought you were not able to roll down windows on a bullet proof car? Thought I saw some History Channel deal on that, glass is too thick and heavy.

They have to build them with heavier-duty equipment(pistons or pumps or whatever), but they do work like normal windows.

 

[David762]

Quell surprise. The Zetas are comprised of ex-Mexican military, many of whom took their military weapons with them when they left -- everything from hand grenades to full-auto assault weapons to .50 caliber belt-fed machine guns, plus high-tech communications gear. What they didn't take with them, the drug cartels bought outright from Mexico's corrupt military, not unlike the corrupt local LEOs and State Security forces (like our FBI).

I heard from a different source that the Obama regime's BATF were trying to prove that the drug cartels were getting all their firearms from USA-based civilian "straw purchases" in border state gun shops. When they couldn't make that case statistically, the Obama regime began covertly transporting illicit USA firearms to the drug cartels -- the intent: to make the case for disarming American citizens of their firearms. It would appear that one of these operations went "pear-shaped". It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of thugs.

Here's a question that the Obama regime cannot or will not answer: "If the Zetas and the drug cartels can purchase full-auto weapons from corrupt elements of the Mexican local LEOs, State Security forces, and their military, why would they bother trying to smuggle civilian semi-auto weapons from the USA and convert them to full-auto?"

BTW: The legal albeit corrupt Mexican power structure obtains their weapons mostly from the USA government or authorized USA government suppliers in the Military Industrial Complex, usually with USA taxpayer-funded grants (military & LEO equipment "aid" programs) for the War on Drugs. Unlike the American civilian population, average Mexican civilians cannot possess any firearms, under threat of rather draconian prison sentences. The Obama regime would do in the USA what the corrupt Mexican government has been doing for decades -- they're just lying about their intentions.