StormWarning’s Counterterrorism

I am reminded by a comment made to me very recently by a Mexican businessman who said, "Your people trained these people" (referring to the Zetas).

Nuevo Laredo Cop on Guard Duty Slain

Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on a pair of municipal police officers Tuesday afternoon, killing one and wounding another as they guarded a police official’s home.

Officer Jesus de la Cruz died at the scene. Officer Juan Flores Quiroga was taken to a local hospital, where he was listed in stable condition…

…The shooting was similar to an April 18 incident in which gunmen opened fire on two officers guarding a home that had been searched by federal forces. One officer died in that shooting.

No arrests have been made in either case.         

Another attack occurred Tuesday in Mexicali, where at least 10 assailants in bulletproof vests and hoods shot at and threw grenades at a convoy carrying Manuel Diaz Lerma, who oversees the police forces of Baja California state.

Diaz Lerma’s vehicle, which is bulletproof, escaped the attack, but a vehicle carrying bodyguards was perforated by bullets and shrapnel, injuring three officers, said state Attorney General Antonio Martinez Luna.

At the shooting scene in Nuevo Laredo, neighbors poured limestone powder on a large puddle of blood on the sidewalk. The puddle was so large that a construction worker used a wheelbarrow load of concrete mix to cover it.

Then they prayed.

"Please bless this soul so that he may protect his colleagues so they won’t be next," prayed Flor Rodriguez…

So, who is responsible for this continuing violence, and what policies are needed to stop it?

Its not politically correct, but I continue to support the Border Security and Immigration Reform initiative as represented by HR4312 and HR4437.  It doesn’t look like the Congress as a whole has the backbone to pass anything close to those, and that watered down version will in their own ways, permit illegal immigration.  Now, how do you stop the southern border incursions without U.S. troops killing Mexican nationals?

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