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    It has been reported recently that arms used in Narco Attacks have been linked to stockpiles sold to Central American states. Now linkages between ATF Operation Gun Runner etal to significant government officials. Some say that this goes straight into the office of John McCain who knew about these gun walking operations back in 2008. And, it appears that the weapons were meant to get into the hands of the drug gangs. This is what this former Zeta is claiming. He got his guns directly from the U.S. Government. Issa's hearings are just a smoke screen he does not and will not get to the bottom of this scandal. Because he will not be taking down Senator John McCain. Let's see Issa do that, if he does all of the pro-Hamas shit that Issa has said in the past will comeback to haunt him in a big way. This investigation will go no where.



    ATF

    Drug cartels still using Central American military arsenals from ‘Iran-Contra’ era (supplied by the U.S. Government) : Deadline Live With Jack Blood


  • #2
    Was that video linked to the article?

    Do you know what he was saying?

    I think he is too young to know what he speaks of, though the article raises some questions, the ICS is far in the past.

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    • #3
      The weapons used by the cartel Los Zetas against opposing groups or against the federal forces are purchased in the U.S., and are even sold by the authorities of the U.S. government revealed Rejon Jesus Enrique Aguilar, The Mummy.

      3 On Sunday, members of the Federal Police (PF) arrested in the State of Mexico to the Z-7 of the 14 key leaders and founders of Los Zetas, who in his remarks said that there is speculation that the U.S. government takes of arms to Mexican cartels.

      The Mummy confessed in an interview broadcast tonight on the PF, the armament of the criminal organization is purchased in the U.S. and smuggled into Mexico by the Rio Grande as a result of increased security.

      "There was a time for buyers because they were not of us were buyers on the other side, said that even the American government sold them," let go.

      Count betrayals

      Rejon Aguilar also said that violence between the cartels is the product of treachery.

      The number three in the hierarchy of the Zetas stated that differences began with the capture of Osiel Cardenas Guillen, the former leader of the Gulf cartel, since the command was assumed by Jorge Costilla-Sanchez, who struck a deal with rival groups.

      "The Beagle made an alliance and we fought with El Chapo, with El Mayo (Zambada) with Jalisco, La Familia Michoacana, because they are alliance and that we are making war," said the alleged drug trafficker.

      The Mother also said that before the capture of Jesus Mendez, El Chango, he intended to rapprochement with Los Zetas, which apparently did not materialize.

      "It is said that he wanted to bring ... to a dialogue, because he had killed all his people and wanted to support. "For the thinking of one, my personal view, I believe that once betrayed, betrayed twice. I do not think it was appropriate, but my thinking is mine, I do not know what they thought the controls, "he said.
      “Todas las armas vienen de EU”, dice “El Mamito” | Contraste Web
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      • #4
        So where is the concrete links to the ICS?

        What was the part about the Panamanian train? I missed some of that.

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        • #5
          Did you read the Jack Blood story? It should be there. My Spanish is not that great your's could be better and than mine. I do get bits and pieces though..
          Last edited by David Crocket; 15 Jul 11,, 06:34.

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            Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico | the narcosphere
            Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico
            Posted by Bill Conroy - February 12, 2011 at 8:44 pm
            The Big Clubs in Mexico’s Drug War Aren’t Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole
            Another series of leaked State Department cables made public this week by WikiLeaks lend credence to investigative reports on gun trafficking and the drug war published by Narco News as far back as 2009.
            The big battles in the drug war in Mexico are “not being fought with Saturday night specials, hobby rifles and hunting shotguns,” Narco News reported in March 2009, against the grain, at a time when the mainstream media was pushing a narrative that assigned the blame for the rising tide of weapons flowing into Mexico to U.S. gun stores and gun shows.
            Rather, we reported at the time, “the drug trafficking organizations are now in possession of high-powered munitions in vast quantities that can’t be explained by the gun-show loophole.”
            Those weapons, found in stashes seized by Mexican law enforcers and military over the past several years, include U.S.-military issued rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and explosives.
            The State Department cables released recently by WikiLeaks support Narco News’ reporting and also confirm that our government is very aware of the fact that U.S military munitions are finding their way into Mexico, and into the hands of narco-trafficking organizations, via a multi-billion dollar stream of private-sector and Pentagon arms exports.
            Narco News, in a report in December 2008 [“Juarez murders shine a light on an emerging Military Cartel”] examined the increasing militarization of narco-trafficking groups in Mexico and pointed out that U.S. military-issued ammunition popped up in an arms cache seized in Reynosa, Mexico, in November 2008 that was linked to the Zetas, a mercenary group that provides enforcement services to Mexican narco-trafficking organizations.
            Tosh Plumlee, a former CIA asset who still has deep connections in the covert world, told Narco News recently that a special-operations task force under Pentagon command, which has provided training to Mexican troops south of the border, has previously “… found [in Mexico] hundreds of [U.S.-made] M-67s [grenades] as well as thousands of rounds of machine gun-type ammo, .50 [and] .30 [caliber] and the famous [U.S.-made] M-16 — most later confirmed as being shipped from Guatemala into Mexico as well as from USA vendors. …”
            Similarly, an AP video report from May 2009 confirms that “M16 machine guns” have been seized from Mexican criminal groups engaged in the drug war.
            “It’s unclear how cartels are getting military grade weapons,” the AP report states.
            Narco News offered an answer to that question in March 2009, when it reported that the deadliest of the weapons now in the hands of criminal groups in Mexico, particularly along the U.S. border, by any reasonable standard of an analysis of the facts, appear to be getting into that nation through perfectly legal private-sector arms exports, measured in the billions of dollars.
            Those exports are approved through the State Department, under a program known as Direct Commercial Sales. A sister program, called Foreign Military Sales, is overseen by the Pentagon and also taps U.S. contractors to manufacture weapons (such as machine guns and grenades) for export to foreign entities, including companies and governments.


            http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/0...NTERREY14.html


            ¶3. ( C) The investigation into this attack is being
            conducted by the federal Attorney General's office, the same
            office handling the October 11 attack on the Consulate. They
            have received strong cooperation from Consulate law enforcement
            personnel. The Consulate was contacted the night of the attack,
            and the RSO, DEA RAC and an ATF agent searched the crime scene.
            They recovered shell casings, which were analyzed by the Nuevo
            Leon State Crime Laboratory with an IBIS ballistic imaging
            machine, utilizing training provided by ATF. Those shell casings
            will be forwarded to the ATF lab for further analysis. Consulate
            officials took a soil sample, which will also be sent to the ATF
            lab for study. ATF traced the firearms recovered from the site
            and discovered that these guns were purchased in Texas one year
            ago. ATF has the specific information on the purchasers and will
            coordinate its investigation with the ATF Houston Field Office.
            The investigators recovered the grenade fuse spoon, which
            appears to be from a US military M67 fragmentation grenade. ATF
            is investigating if any M67 grenades from this lot were exported
            to foreign militaries. The M67 grenade is different than the M26
            grenade used to attack the Consulate on October 11, but five M67
            grenades were recovered during a raid several days after the
            Consulate attack in a Gulf Cartel warehouse.

            MEXICO: TRACKING NARCO-GRENADES

            4. (S) The lot numbers of some of the grenades recovered,
            including the grenade used in the attack on Televisa, indicate
            that previously ordnance with these same lot numbers may have
            been sold by the USG to the El Salvadoran military in the early
            1990s via the Foreign Military Sales program. We would like to
            thank AmEmbassy San Salvador for its ongoing efforts to query
            the Government of El Salvador as whether any of its stocks of
            grenades and other munitions have been diverted or are otherwise
            unaccounted for.


            5. (SBU) AmConsulate Monterrey requests that Department
            instruct AmEmbassy Seoul to discreetly query the Korean
            government regarding the whereabouts, disposition, and the
            possibility of any missing stocks of South Korean-made:

            --- 40mm High Explosives Cartridges K200, with Lot numbers
            HWB95L615-012; HWB95L615-014; EC-87E615-061; EC-88G615-071,
            EC-84D610-096, EC-83H615-012, and EC-83H815-012.

            --- K400 Fragmentation Grenades, with Lot numbers
            EC-89E605-063, HEB96H605-033, HWB96H605-033, HWB96H-609-003,
            KG94DK400002-017, KG94D002-017, HWB89S605-063, ME183D, and
            HWB95K605-029.

            --- K402 Fragmentation Grenades, with Lot numbers HWB96H605-063
            and HWB96H605-033.


            MONTERREY 00000100 002 OF 002


            --- K75 Fragmentation Grenade, with Lot numbers EC-85E605-031
            and EC89E605-073.

            6. (SBU) Any information as to the destination of this
            ordnance and to whom it may have been sold would be most
            appreciated. This information will be used in an U.S. ongoing
            criminal investigation.
            WILLIAMSON

            Cable reference id: #09GUATEMALA538

            S E C R E T GUATEMALA 000538 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/07/2019 TAGS: MARR [Military and Defense Arrangements] PGOV [Internal Governmental Affairs] PTER [Terrorists and Terrorism] MCAP [Military Capabilities] PREL [External Political Relations] PINR [Intelligence] MOPS [Military Operations] GT [Guatemala] SUBJECT: ROGUE ELEMENTS OF GUATEMALAN MILITARY SELLING WEAPONS TO NARCOS REF: GUATEMALA 407 Classified By: Political Officer George Mathews for reasons 1.4 (b.d)

            ¶1. (S) SUMMARY. In the wake of a recent deadly shoot-out between GOG anti-drug agents and Zetas, the embassy has received new information indicating rogue elements within the Guatemalan army are selling military-grade weapons and munitions to narcotraffickers. The Embassy DAO has learned that 12 junior officers were recently relieved by their commanders for suspicion of selling armaments under their control to drug organizations. The 12 officers have not been arrested, but were instead "sent home," while Guatemalan military intelligence (D2) continues its investigation. END SUMMARY.

            ¶2. (U) On April 24 agents from SAIA (Counternarcotics Analysis and Information Service) conducted a raid on a warehouse located 30 kilometers south of Guatemala City. The agents encountered a number of heavily-armed Zetas, the military arm of the Gulf Cartel, and the ensuing firefight left 5 SAIA agents dead. Following the raid, GOG authorities confiscated a large quantity of weapons, including: 11 light machine guns, a Light Anti-tank Weapon (LAW), 563 rocket-propelled grenades, 32 hand grenades, 8 Claymore anti-personnel mines, almost 8,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, and 3 fully armored Suburbans.

            ¶3. (S) NAS reports that senior officials in the Attorney General's office (MP) were receptive to allowing DAO and ATF personnel access to the weapons cache. As a result of this access, DIA analysts were able to determine with a high degree of confidence that many of these weapons and munitions came from Guatemalan military stocks. For example, the 3,812 rounds of 5.56mm ammunition, used by M-16s and other military-style assault weapons, were found sealed in packaging bearing the stamp of the Guatemalan military industrial facility (IMG.)

            ¶4. (S) Senior Guatemalan military leaders ordered D2 to initiate an investigation into the sources of the Zetas' weapons and munitions. In the course of their investigation, D2 determined that 12 junior military officers were likely involved in selling armaments to narcotraffickers. A number of the rocket-propelled grenades recovered following the April 24 shoot-out can be tied directly to weapons storage facilities under the control of these officers. However, none of the 12 officers have, at this point, been arrested for their involvement in these activities. (NOTE: As is standard practice in the Guatemalan military, these officers have not been prosecuted. Rather they have been relieved of their positions and sent home. In similar cases in the past, officers have not faced courts martial and were either allowed to retire or were quietly shifted to other assignments. Furthermore, there is a high level of distrust between D2 and civilian law enforcement agencies, which makes any prosecution in the civilian legal system unlikely. END NOTE)

            ¶5. (S) DAO reports that the senior leadership of the Guatemalan military has been fully supportive of efforts to determine if narcotraffickers are receiving weapons from Guatemalan military stocks. However, D2 has been much less supportive, claiming they are still investigating the matter. They also have been hesitant to reveal significant details, such as the names of the 12 officers, what units they are assigned to, or where they are stationed.

            ¶6. (S) On May 12, DAO spoke with Major General Abraham Valenzuela, the Guatemalan Minister of Defense, about the QValenzuela, the Guatemalan Minister of Defense, about the investigation. Valenzuela said he is very concerned about the matter and will ask President Colom to request that an outside agency, possibly the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) investigate. Valenzuela believes a small ring inside the Guatemala military is involved in the sale of arms to narcotraffickers. However, Valenzuela did not comment on the number of officers involved. He did say that he will do everything possible to see that the 12 officers implicated in the D2 investigtion are prosecuted. He also offered to providethe names of the 12 officers to the embassy so they can be prohibited from being issued visas to the United States.

            ¶7. (S) COMMENT: The involvement of Guatemalan military officers in the sale of weapons to narcotraffickers raises serious concerns about the Guatemalan military's ability to secure its arms and ammunition. The National Police (PNC) are already outgunned by the narcotraffickers, and now have to go up against weapons from Guatemala's own military stockpile. While we are currently only aware of this isolated case, we will press Ministry of Defense officials to review its procedures for securing weapons and ensure the problem is not widespread. The increased willingness of the Guatemalan military to punish corruption with vigorous prosecution would also send a strong message and preserve institutional integrity. To further this goal, the embassy will press the GOG to refer this case to CICIG, with the expectation that high-profile prosecutions could deter others in the Guatemalan military from cooperating with narcotraffickers.
            Last edited by David Crocket; 15 Jul 11,, 06:35.

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