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2010-06-03 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2010-06-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Houston Chronicle: An alleged plot by a Mexican drug cartel to blow up the five mile long Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande along the Texas border and unleash billions of gallons of water into a region with millions of civilians sent American police, federal agents and disaster officials secretly scrambling last month to thwart such an attack, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
The attack may have been thwarted in Mexico. It raises the fear of what the powerful cartels could do.

It would have been a hell of a disaster, said Gene Falcon, director of emergency preparedness for Starr County, site of the dam. There was plenty of concern.

With handbills and bullhorns, members of the Zeta cartel are said to have warned the civilian population on the Mexican side of the river near the dam to get out of the area, according to residents and intelligence information from law enforcement officials.

A border law enforcement official told the Chronicle the warnings originated in part by the seizure of small amounts of dynamite near the dam, and the discovery of a copy of the alert on the Mexican side of the border.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-03 00:19|| 2010-06-03 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Seal the frickin borders.

Posted by anymouse 2010-06-03 00:26|| 2010-06-03 00:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Zetas may find out what Pancho Villa did, if we ever get a real Commander In Chief.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-06-03 09:05|| 2010-06-03 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Go ahead and let 'em do it so we can finally saddle up and push that border back a couple hundred miles.

Posted by John Wayne Resurrected 2010-06-03 19:53|| 2010-06-03 19:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Scatterable mines.... on their side of the border. DO IT!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-06-03 19:54|| 2010-06-03 19:54|| Front Page Top

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