UPDATED: New Stephens Media Block List subject logo
2010-08-29
Posted by: badanov

Crossposted at Rantburg.com

For Those with Macs and various flavors of Linux and BSD-unix, I have included instructions for those platforms as well. Nothing for Internet Explorer. Sorry.

Righthaven, the Nevada lawsuit mill which is suing Fred, has acquired a "license" from another newspaper holding company, WEHCO in Arkansas, to sue the planet in US Federal court.

Consequently, I have updated the Firefox block list to include every newspaper website associated with WEHCO. The list currently stands at 123 different websites total, many of them sub-domains and alternative sub domains which may get through the Firefox blocking add-on.( Dunno how it works; don't care)

For those who do not know to click on the headline, the file is here.

For those living in a cave the last few weeks, see here.

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New Link: I Hate the Media subject logo
2010-08-28
Posted by: badanov

Fits has been using links to I Hate the Media. I am including it in my blogroll.

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Tamaulipas: 6 Dead, 7 Wounded in Reynosa subject logo
2010-08-26
Posted by: badanov

Google Translate.

Crossposted at Rantburg.com

Most of the fighting in Reynosa, Tamaulipas has ended as elements of the Mexican Army have taken over police checkpoints in various parts of the city, according to Mexican press reports.

Fighting between elements of the the Mexican Army and criminal gangs flared up yesterday as gun battles were fought in the streets.

Reynosa city officials warned residents Tuesday through Twitter to remain indoors.

During the fighting, a number of roadblocks were thrown up by criminal gangs in several areas, some concentrated in the Villa Florida district in western Reynosa where a number of industrial plants are. Reports at the time said the roadblocks coincided with the ending of the Tuesday morning shift of American owned factories in the area.

Reports are a total of six dead, including three soldiers, a civilians and two gang members, and an additional seven wounded in the fighting.

The Mexican Army is apparently taking over checkpoints on all major roads leading into Reynosa including roads that connect Matamoros, Ciudad Victoria, Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo. The effort is to block additional ingress into the city by criminal gangs.

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Everything Looks Like a Nail subject logo
2010-08-26
Posted by: badanov

Nice video at the link, but the funniest part was the following comment:

Dear Parents-Who-This-Upset,
First, pull your kids out of football. They're fags. Try ballet.
More at the link...

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An Untitled Haiku subject logo
2010-08-24
Posted by: badanov

Dump enough rounds,
fast enough,
you don't need luck.

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And We're Back subject logo
2010-08-20
Posted by: badanov

After two weeks in the desert, the freefireozne.org name is back on.

Yay!

Back to the regularly scheduled blogging, whenever that will be.

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Rantburg Sued -- UPDATED subject logo
2010-08-20
Posted by: badanov

Rantburg is being sued by the lawsuit mill Righthaven.

I have been associated with Rantburg.com as techincal help since about 2005, and before that as a regular, since 2002.

This particular bit of insanity can strike any one of us, so beware.

If you want to help Fred defend himself, please go to Bottom Feeder to donate money.

UPDATE:

On the right sidebar you will see a link to a zip file called Steven Media Block List. You can download this file which contains all the instructions necessary to block you from loading any Stevens Media content on your browser. This is obviously an effort to form some sort of response to the abject hostility that the Righthaven lawsuit mills represents.

Instructions courtesy Clayton Cramer who is also being sued.

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Associated Press Ignores Mexican Drug War News? subject logo
2010-08-19
Posted by: badanov

Crossposted at Rantburg.com
by Chris Covert

Rantburg has posted links to an Associated Press article about the Mexican Blog del Narco, the last of which was last night.

No question Blog del Narco has made a tremendous splash in coverage of Mexico's drug and gang war. I have myself used some of the information contained in Blog del Narco to add additional details that Mexican press does not, or cannot provide.

The July 2nd gun battle between criminal gangs in Tubutama, Sonora is a very good example. You can see the Rantburg summary of the battle here.

A few days later a series of photos emerged from the area showed it was not just an intergang firefight. It was an ambush by Los Zetas versus a Sinaloa subgroup called Command X. How did I know that? From the comments on Blog del Narco. It was obvious from the comments that some of the commenters were people who had detailed knowledge of the ambush and explained that is wasn't just a firefight. It was a massacre.

The tone of the comments was such that they were either experienced Mexican security or they were experienced gang members with what I would call advanced knowledge of small unit tactics. Looking at the photos before reading the comments all I saw was a bunch of young men gunned down in the middle of a desert road. But for the comments I would not have figured out what took place.

The big story for Blog del Narco was the Torreon massacre at the Italia Inn on July 17th. Two things took place within days of the killings. The first was an announcement by one of Blog del Narco commenters had two months before warned about meetings and the people at the inn. We found out that the hotel was used by Coahuila's gay community to meet, but that the meeting had been canceled only days before due to heavy rains.

The existence of the commenter placed the killings in a different light entirely. Instead of being a massacre about contraband smuggling routes, it became a terrorist attack, a genuine one driven by politics.

Then a day later, a video came out. It showed a Ciudad Lerdo, Durango police officer, Rodlfo Najera, beaten and bloody, confessing that prisoners and guards at a Gomez Palacio prison were involved in a number of similar massacres in the Torreon area against Los Zetas operated facilities. Najera had been captured by Los Zetas and forced to confess his knowledge of involvement of senior prison officials in Gomez Palacio CERESO No 2 before he was murdered on camera.

A few days later, the prison was taken over by Mexican Federal forces, the top staff at the prison placed in preventative detention.

By any accounts a tremendous coup for any blogger.

But now we have the US Associated Press which lumbers in with all the grace of defensive tackle William Perry performing for a ballet company, to report on Blog del Narco.

Much of the article appears to be true, but it also appears that AP didn't do its homework. There are a number of other blogs which do as good a job as Blog del Narco. I have used some of the information contained in them to fill in the blanks. El Blog del Terror is one and Nota Roja is another. As with Blog del Narco, they use open sources of information. It seems, however, the Blog del Narco is a little better informed that the others.

Originally, when I first discovered Blog del Narco, a disclaimer was on the site saying the proprietor was a journalist. Now the AP reports the proprietor is a student. I guess he could be both, and it is possible the student is up to his eyeballs in criminal connections, and it is also likely, very, very likely, the AP was simply lied to.

Two other problems I have with AP's venture into reporting on blogs. One is a comment from a woman in Nuevo Laredo who claimed she read Blog del Narco to get an idea of where shootout are taking place.

I did too, but I understand, as many of the commenters do on Blog del Narco that you read government Twitter feeds, which are sometimes rebroadcast by other associated Twitter feeds in Blog del Narco for the latest news. The shootout in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, for example, was only reported on through government Twtter feeds and private youtube videos which recorded for several minutes the sounds of gunfire from afar. Even days later other than the Mexican Army reporting on its actions we still know little to nothing about the gun battles in the city.

Blog del Narco was as much a victim of the dearth of information as the rest of us reporting on events in Reynosa.

The other problem is this passage:

Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story.

That is from a cutline of a photo posted at Blog del Narco which showed photos of the assassination of Tamaulipas gubernatorial candidate Torres Cantu.

For those who do follow Mexican news, this must have been a "Huh?" moment. No one shied away from the story. No one. At Rantburg, the story of the assassination was posted within hours of the event and from Mexican sources, the only ones who do report on this news, and the additional information posted was gleaned from Nota Roja. We didn't post the photos because, frankly, they weren't ours to post.

This was a deliberately ignorant concept fostered by the AP that somehow Mexican press is blacking out its news on the war on drugs. They're not. Mexican press generally does a very, very good job, considering just how dangerous things are. They are diligent and critical as well as vigorous, everything an American press should be and often isn't.

One final example:

In May an armed group broke into a church wedding in Juarez and abducted four victims. We find out later from Juarez press that a New Mexico newspaper reported the victims were American, as did the El Paso times. That was day one.

On day two, two of the victims were found dead, dutifully reported by Juarez press. I saw the El paso Times report on the story. But nothing on any other news outlet. Day six ( going from memory ) a third victim was found dead. I am not sure if the El Paso Times reported on the find, but if they did, none of it got picked up by the AP. And then on day nine, the last victim was rescued by Mexican Federal agents. Finally, a regional wire story appeared on the Brownsville Herald about the rescue, but nothing else about the entire story. When I read the wire account, it appeared that this was the only wire story that was written about the entire crime.

Consider that four American citizens were abducted in Juarez, and the El Paso Times is reporting the story but the AP fails on numerous occasions to pickup the story until the last element of the crime takes place.

Yeah, there's a blackout in Mexican drug war news. Its maintained by the Associated Press.

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Coahuila Massacre: Drug Hit or Act of Terrorism subject logo
2010-07-22
Posted by: badanov

Crossposted at Rantburg

For a map, click here.

If ever there was a shooting which made zero sense, the July 18th massacre of 18 people at a late night party in Torreon was it. We have seen this pattern before. An armed group riding in SUVs drives up to an area late at night where there are lots of young people generally enjoying their lives, exit their vehicles, enters an area and then opens fire, hitting everyone inside. Happens a lot especially recently in Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon and even Tamaulipas.

But Torreon, Coahuila?

Coahuila is similar to Sonora, except for the mountains and the roads leading north. There isn't a whole lot north of Torreon, in fact, except for cattle ranches and farms. No major highways where it could pay to send armed groups to clear off rival gangs. The only main highway in Coahuila which leads north runs through the capital city of Saltillo, 100 kilometers to the east. Torreon sits astride a lateral road which runs east and west until it curves to the northwest and into Chihuahua, with a terminus at Juarez.

Even if you were a regional manager in Coahuila for Bad Guy Gang Theta, for example, keeping Torreon clear of rival gangs would be the easiest of tasks. No one wants this route, not even the Zetas and this is near their territories in Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Drug and human cargo heading north you want to run through Sonora, where at least they have a system of roads which are relatively unpatrolled; or through Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Not in Coahuila.

Today a piece of the puzzle as to motive for the massacre was revealed in Blog del Narco, a counternarcotics blog which specializes in chronicling the Mexican war on drugs and gangs with graphic images and descriptions, as well as a rather vigorous and often profane readership.

A reader identified as "Informant 1" said in a May 17th blog entry warning that the next attack would take place at the Italia Quinta at Gayoso at the San Luis district of Torreon, so if the people who met at the Quita Italia continued "doing stupid things", they were warned.

The "stupid things" reference was to the ongoing and regular meeting of Coahuila's gay community, one of which was scheduled at the Quinta Italia but was cancelled due to torrential rains that week.

Usually when Mexican gangs want to control routes, they attack other gangs and security services. Sometimes with warnings, but sometimes not. Officially, this Torreon July 18th attack is a criminal act by criminals, but so far no officials have let on as to motive; they are either clueless or they don't want to say.

Just today a warning was scrawled onto the wall near a primary school in Juarez which warned officials to arrest Mexican Federal agents known to be assisting the Sinaloa criminal gang operating in Juarez or face a car bomb with 100 kilograms of explosives. A Chihuahua security official insisted last weekend the Juarez car bomb attack was revenge, not an act of terror, however, even the official must be wondering after the graffiti warning if even he knows what is going on.

The graffiti warning today is a clear terrorist warning. The government must do something or more blood will flow. However, Mexican officials, it seems, are taking a similar tack the current American administration is taking: it isn't terrorism unless we say it is terrorism.

Great public relations work if you can get it, but terrible security policy as we learned during the years before the Sept 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. And this is apparently a lesson our government and the Mexican government wants us to learn again.

The comments on the Blog del Narco reveal a tremendous frustration ordinary Mexican people are having with the current legal and security environment. Sentiments expressed run the gamut, from, let us pray everything will turn out alright, to the murders will stop if we drop a hand grenade into a Jeep full of bad guys.

And then there is talk of a grand Mexican tradition: revolution. Mexicans in nearly every forum point out a salient fact: In 1810, Mexico declared its independence from Spain; in 1910 began the Mexican Revolution, and now it is 2010.

Mexicans are justifiably proud of their revolution. Streets and towns are named after dates and icons of revolution in Mexican and in Latin America: Francisco I. Madero, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Lazaro Cardenas, November 20th and so on. They knew then as they know now they don't need a "Goat's Horn" to change things.

But a modern rifle for the purposes of self defense wouldn't hurt anyone.

How much would it take to push a people back to revolution?

Last week I read a story about a petty criminal having to be rescued by local authorities because townspeople were about to lynch him. A cat burglar, as I recall, could have died simply because it seems Mexican people are so frustrated with crime they are willing to snuff a life, to make an example, for a crime which should get the criminal six months prison max.

And that is the third act of attempted lynching in three months, all in central Mexico, well away from where the worst of the violence is.

Sun Tsu's famous quote roughly paraphrased, "Knowing is half the battle.", really is instructive in the times we refer to as Mexican Mayhem. And willful ignorance is no way to fight a war.

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What Kind of Conservative Are You? subject logo
2010-07-21
Posted by: badanov

Quiz: What Kind of Conservative Are You?

My Conservative Identity:

You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative or Tea Partier. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’"

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I Write Like: Ian Fleming subject logo
2010-07-19
Posted by: badanov

I write like
Ian Fleming

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



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Sondrak Down from a Federal Bust -- Guess Not subject logo
2010-07-17
Posted by: badanov

UPDATED: She's back.

Not Sondrak herself, of course, but from being on the same server or group of servers as an apparent warez site.

Being the left,especially this current government is in thrall of Hollywood,expect much,much more of this. The standard is if you have a server with 10,000 blogs on it and just one hosts child pr0n, the whole server gets taken down.

I will check my blog list on the left sidebar over the next few hour to see who else got taken down. I s'pect only Sondrak so far.

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Nuevo Leon: Mexican Army Frees Nine Kidnap Victimssubject logo
2010-07-11
Posted by: badanov

Crossposted at Rantburg.com

Google Translate

Updated with additional information concerning a new PGR investigation of those rescued and an updated list of contraband seized.

Elements of the Mexican Army conducted a raid in a northern Monterrey, Nuevo Leon neighborhood Friday night rescuing nine unidentified people and arresting eight unidentified suspected kidnappers, according to Mexican press reports.

However, the Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR), the Mexican national attorney general's office, announced Saturday that all seventeen people involved in the operation would be investigated concerning the nature of their involvement. The PGR had suspicions that some of the nine rescuees were also involved with organized crime.

At about 2000 hrs. a detachment of the Mexican 7th Military Zone cordoned off an area near the intersection of calles Apodaca and Teran in the Topo Chico district and initiated a firefight with armed suspects in the area, which lasted several minutes.

The cordon was apparently successful because an unreleased number of suspects attempted to clear the area but were caught by the army. Civilians in the area took shelter in their homes as the battle raged. Medical personnel were called in to assist at least two who developed medical conditions caused by the gun battle.

Weapons seized by the army included three handguns, three submachine guns, an AK-47 assault rifle, several weapons cartridges, eight magazines, an ice chest used to keep victims' cell phones, bullet proof vests, military uniforms, six sets of handcuffs and two packets of drugs.

Victims told authorities they were kidnapped after suspects approached their homes or businesses disguised as police.

One of the victim said that there were more than 40 people at the location the day before, and that people were coming and going all the time in vans and other vehicles.

The victims also said the kidnappers also beat them and used other forms of physical coercion while in their custody.

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Sinaloa: Mexican Army Nabs Three Bad Guys subject logo
2010-07-10
Posted by: badanov

Google Translate

Crossposted at Rantburg.com

A Mexican Army unit travelling in Sinaloa at night was involved in a shootout with armed suspects riding in a convoy, which led to the arrest of three and the seizure of weapons and vehicles early Friday morning, say Mexican new accounts.

Elements of the Mexican Army 24th Motorized Cavalry Battalion, 9th Military Zone was travelling near the village of San Pedro La Laguna at about 0020 hrs. when they were fired on by armed suspects riding in a convoy of at least eight vehicles.

The ensuing firefight lasted several minutes until the suspects retreated from their position. Three suspects were captured.

Weapons eized were: one AK-47 assault rifle, two AR-15 assault rifles, two 40mm grenade launcher attachments, one 9mm submachine gun UZI type, one .45 caliber pistol, two Super .38 caliber pistols, one .38 Special, three 40mm grenades, 37 magazines and 2,634 cartridges of various calibers.

Vehicles seized: One 2009 Nissan Pathfinder (stolen),one Jeep Wrangler (stolen), One 2009 Mazda CX-9 (stolen), one Nissan pickup truck (stolen), one Chevrolet Tahoe (stolen) with bullet impacts, and one 2005 Chevrolet Trail Blazer.

Other materiel seized: Two tactical vests, two kevlar helmets, one generator and radio equipment.

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An Independence Day Sentiment subject logo
2010-07-04
Posted by: badanov

A Free Fire Zone klassik:

Having a liberal/leftist file a Fourth of July story is like inviting someone with a known bladder control problem to a pool party.

You know they're gonna to ruin it for everyone else.

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Rachel Marsden: 15th Hottest, Literally subject logo
2010-07-04
Posted by: badanov

Originally, I didn't want to deal with this particular article because of its banality. Who cares if someone is "hot" unless you're the one asking that question about yourself?

I haven't followed Right Wing News in years because of insurmountable ideological differences, but this article was hard to ignore because it contained a reference to Ms. Rachel Marsden.

You remember my commentary on her some years back after she had been "escorted" out of a Fox News facility. Something about crappy behavior or the threat of it.

Marsden seems to have moved on to fresher targets since that article including the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales. There are undoubtedly others that have failed to come out into the open. She must have shot low in those cases; why we don't hear about them.

And now the ghost appears again in the "Fifteen Hottest Conservative Women." Amazing bit of ignorance.

No question Marsden is easy on the eyes. But there seems to be a total lack of judgement on the part of the conservative bloggers who placed her that high on the list. Maybe beauty is skin deep, but psycho will blow right through you, and conservative men, after more than two decades of utter contempt by many, many others, including and especially women, should be aware of that.

But the people who placed her on the list aren't, or are so blinkered by her physical beauty that they fail to take her background into account. You'll see conservatives jump through their ass about someone who says something remotely anti-semetic, or racial, but a woman who has harassed boyfriends when things didn't quite go her way her; they get a major pass.

It well explains why conservatives are in the political position they are in now.

I got a better idea. The "conservative" women who are unmarried past age 30 are probably so for a reason. Take a run at one of them and then sit down before a word processor, and then tell the world how that went.

The sight of a beauty, not so beautiful with puffy, tear besotted eyes coming after you, or your friends with some kind of truncheon in her hand won't look quite so hot, I'd wager.

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Tamaulipas: Details on the Murder of Torre Cantu subject logo
2010-07-02
Posted by: badanov

Crossposted at Rantburg

Google Translate with a hat tip to Nota Roja

Details from the Mexican press are emerging which show that the murder of a Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) politician Tuesday morning was performed with military like precision and may have used inside information, according to Mexican press reports.

Tamaulipas gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantu was shot to death along with four others in his entourage on a stretch of road in Tamaulipas Tuesday morning in an ambush that witnesses say was executed by men wearing Mexican Navy uniforms who were specifically targeting Torres Cantu.

Shortly before 1000 hrs, Torre Cantu left his home for a 20 minute drive to the General Pedro Jose Mendez airport in Cuidad Victoria for his campaign. Just before entering the 6.5 kilometer Soto La Marina road and just in front of the Parque Cientifico y Tecnologico, the convoy came upon a truck travelling at low speed.

Just ahead another truck or trailer crossed the road, effectively blocking it. The lead truck stopped suddenly causing Torre Cantu's vehicle to collide with it. The trailing Chevrolet Tahoe, carrying part of the security detail narrowly avoided colliding into the lead vehicle of the convoy by swerving to the left and stopping.

From behind two trucks marked as belonging to the Mexican Navy stopped at the rear on either side of the halted convoy, discharging men who were apparently dressed as Mexican sailors.

The security detail exited their vehicle to inform the sailors who it was they were guarding. Torre Cantu also exited his vehicle with his security detail, and at that moment, armed suspects from the lead truck exited their vehicle and open fired on the candidate.

Reports say investigators found between 80 and 120 spent shell casings of various calibers.

The candidate fell mortally on he shoulder of the road. Reports say that Torre Cantu usually did not travel on the road, preferring to fly and usually had security with him when he did.

Latest Mexican national news report suggest three of the vehicles used in the murder have been found in a rural district of the Guemez municipality.

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San Luis Potosi: Mexican Military Bags Bad Boys subject logo
2010-06-29
Posted by: badanov

Crossposted in Rantburg

Google Translate

Image courtesy SEDENA

Two dead armed suspects and one dead Mexican soldier is the toll from a lengthy confrontation between elements of the Mexican Army and suspected armed gang members in San Luis Potosi, say Mexican news reports.

The confrontation began at 0420 hrs. in Rio Verde in the Prolongacion Escandon district when elements of the 65th Infantry Battalion arrived at a location in response to an anonymous tip reporting armed suspects.

Soldiers were fired with rifles and hand grenades upon the moment they arrived. For more than four hours neighbors in Cruz Verde, La Huerta, Insurgentes and Prolongacion Escandon districts listened as a firefight raged between the Mexican Army and suspected gang members.

Residents during this time were not allowed to leave their homes. Several homes were raided by the army. More than 300 soldiers supported the operation along with a helicopter flying in support. At about noon, a convoy of 20 vehicles carrying Mexican Federal agents arrived.

The firefight ended about 1800 hrs.

Three soldiers were wounded in addition to three civilians. The soldiers were evacuated to a hospital.

Seven prisoners were arrested, including three women. Ten rifles, an unspecified number of fragmentary hand grenades, military uniforms, four vehicles and other materiel were seized.

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Tamaulipas: Mexican Army Kills Five Bad Guys subject logo
2010-06-27
Posted by: badanov

Crossposted at Rantburg

Google Translate

Image courtesy SEDENA

Elements of the Mexican Army 8th Zone killed five armed suspects after being attacked Tamaulipas, according to Mexican news reports.

The gunfight stems from an apparent kidnapping case where members of the criminal gang Los Zetas kidnapped five PEMEX employees and two of a contracting firm two months ago. Authorities were only alerted two days ago of the crime, which took place at Cuenca de Burgo, in the north of Tamaulipas.

Elements of the Mexican Army were conducting search sweeps near the PEMEX well Arcos No. 145 near Ciudad Mier near a gap which leads to the well. Armed suspects were apparently hiding in cars when they opened fire on the soldiers, who returned fire, killing five armed suspects.

Seized were: nine rifles, more than 11,300 cartridges, 99 magazines, four grenades, and two stolen cars.

PEMEX has requested military help in guarding natural gas production wells. A spokesman for the Mexican petroleum company said the organized crime activity is affecting production in the area.

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Tamaulipas: Mexican Marines Ring Up Six Bad Guys subject logo
2010-06-26
Posted by: badanov

Image courtesy of  SEDENA

Crossposted at Rantburg

Google Translate. Our newest BFF Nota Roja is inactive today

Six dead armed suspects and more than five tons of marijuana seized are the toll in counternarcotics operations by Mexican Naval Infantry and the Mexican Army, according to Mexican news reports.

Mexican Marines encountered a group of armed suspects riding in convoy aboard SUVs near Matamoros, near the US border. When the suspects discovered the Marines, they opened fire, then withdrew to Ciudad Victoria when the Marines returned fire.

When the Marines closed towards the group another firefight erupted, this time with six dead suspects, one wounded and two arrested.

Marines seized three SUVs, a 5.56mm M-4 assault rifle, an AK47 assault rifle, eleven magazines and a large number of cartridges.

Reports are the suspects were members of the criminal gang Los Zetas.

Meanwhile, elements of the Mexican Army 8th Military Zone searching near Reynosa, Tamaulipas found a pickup truck hidden in brush with several kilo packages of marijuana aboard. A subsequent search of the area turned up a warehouse where was found more than five tons of marijuana.

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