Mexico: FBI memo warns of possible plot to kill, kidnap agents

[rainbow4321]

Hmmm..wonder if shrub plans to announce our invasion of Mexico in his State of the Union speech?



http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D87VAGG80.html

Mexican drug cartel could be plotting to kidnap and kill U.S. law enforcement agents, the FBI has warned in a memo to federal, state and local authorities in Texas.

Members of the Osiel Cardenas-Guillen cartel, also known as the Gulf cartel, have threatened to kidnap agents in the United States and then take them to Mexico, where they would be killed, the memo said, according to an FBI official who discussed its contents Monday on condition of anonymity.

Some cartel members are believed to have valid visas and passports, which would allow them to enter this country, according to the memo, which was released last week.

The memo says FBI agents may be the targets, but goes on to say all law enforcement agents should be on alert, the official said.

[KingoftheJungle]

1. They should just work with the CIA and keep their backs covered

I'm referring to the drug smugglers, of course

[AZCat]

2. This strikes me as a bit moronic

Why would anyone, when planning on killing a person, bother to kidnap and transport them to Mexico first?

[ultraist]

3. Who REALLY runs Mexico?

I've read articles that discuss how corrupt their police departments are and how there are only two classes, the very wealthy and the extremely poor. What is really going on there?

When the Bush people remarked that the guest program was a humanitarian effort, why did the fail to address humanitarian efforts that could help alleviate poor conditions IN THAT COUNTRY? Oh, I forgot, his goal is legalize cheap slave like labor for the big corps.

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. Exactly. Whoever in the blivet** admin dreamed up this farce

has been watching too many bad spaghetti Westerns. This is too ludicrous for words, but it was designed to appeal to what the Repubs see as the stupid citizens of this country.

Hope they've calculated wrong.

[AZCat]

5. I don't know if this is worse than the "SCUBA-geared terrorists" one...

But it certainly gives it a run for its money. :eyes:

I wonder if there is an insider with a twisted sense of humor propagating these stories with an ulterior motive.

[Nothing Without Hope]

11. Here's one they're certainly capaple of:

Certain agents, the ones that might squeal on the blivet** administration's criminal acts, especially including the 9/11 action, but many others as well...

...mysteriously die or disappear.

Now they have somebody to blame it on!

[rainbow4321]

13. Now they are backing off the warning...

Now they are in the "never mind" mode... once again....



http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D87VHI6O1.html


The FBI has determined that an alleged plot by a Mexican drug cartel to kidnap and kill two U.S. law enforcement agents was not credible.

"Information was received and after intense efforts to corroborate it, it was determined the information was not viable," said Rene Salinas, FBI spokesman in San Antonio.

The agency's San Antonio regional office had released a statewide bulletin to all law enforcement agencies Friday, warning of the alleged plot.

Salinas said his agency maintained the bulletin was uncorroborated Friday, but had sent it out based on its urgency.

"This (alert) came in such a way that there was no time to corroborate it," he said without identifying the agency's source. "It was never supposed to reach the media or the public."

[Cocoa]

6. lots of chatter about threats from Latin America

this story adds to the list.

I've also heard about scary El Salvador gangs with links to al Qaeda.

And about links between the Zapatistas and al Qaeda.

I think it all adds up to the beginning of the battle over immigration.

[billyoc]

7. It's got the added benefit

of being easily blamed on any other latin american country. :eyes:

[rainbow4321]

8. Anyone waiting on a Cuba connection to come out of this?

And we all know how chimp is going to play that out....

[AZCat]

10. Or Venezuela...

Chavez being the other bogeyman (according to the Bush Admin).

[rainbow4321]

9. TX state lawmakers cancelled a group meeting in Mexico

this past week...guess they had heard this before it hit the news..

1/30/05
Texas lawmakers cancel trip to Mexico amid safety alert


A group of 25 state lawmakers canceled a visit Saturday across the border to Matamoros, Mexico, because of safety concerns.

"It was a last-minute decision to not take any chances," said state Rep. Rene Oliveira, D-Brownsville.

The senators and representatives instead met with Mexican officials at a reception in Brownsville.

On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory alerting citizens of recent drug-trafficking and kidnapping violence on the Mexican side of the border.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

12. Whoa - the cartel members are easily identifiable...

they walk around with Farmer's Almanacs and Rand McNally Atlases...