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2011-05-14 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-05-14 00:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 That explains the helicopter gunships and rockets the other day.

Posted by SteveS 2011-05-14 10:13|| 2011-05-14 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Slug in the radiator seems the best way to stop them, it's unarmored.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-05-14 10:36|| 2011-05-14 10:36|| Front Page Top

#3 The cars range from crude imitations of tanks to SUVs capable of stopping rounds from M-16 and AK-47s.

Good thing the average Mexican Army fusliero is armed with a G3 7.52x51mm assault rifle.

Posted by badanov 2011-05-14 11:06|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-05-14 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps more worrying than the evidence of advanced technical equipment is that the drug gangs are also showing increased sophistication in their use of "urban guerrilla" strategies. According to the video report, groups like the Zetas are known to travel in convoys of ten to 20 vehicles, carrying up to five gunmen each. They carry out carefully planned attacks, ambushing targets such as a military patrol, making use of side streets to encircle and trap their intended victim.

Where did they get their training that they can take on the Mexican military?

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-05-14 13:22|| 2011-05-14 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 The Zetas originated as a Special Forces unit in the Mexican Army that was trained by US Special Forces. After being screwed over repeatedly by the Mexican Government on pay, equipment, housing, death benefits, and everything else, they took the families and accepted the offer from the cartel working in their area. The cartel paid in cash everything it promised, gave their families everything including fully furnished houses and paid benefits immediately. Oh, and the cartel spent the money to buy the best equipment from some of the gunrunners in Central America, and at first, the Zetas were only sent after rival cartels. Then, they started getting into firefights with the police at a later date.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-05-14 14:41|| 2011-05-14 14:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Where did they get their training that they can take on the Mexican military?

Zeta are, at the top at least, former Mexican and Guatemalan special forces. They recruit special forces people, probably washouts and the like,, train them on weapons and tactics then give them their own gang and area.

The last time the Zetas attempted a "sophisticated ambush" was last week in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon where they they used eight SUVs, set up a multi-lane ambush, targeting a mixed group of state police agents and soldiers, and killed exactly none of their targets, but stray fire killed a man on a bus. The bad guys did wound one soldier.

Media, such as this Soros funded outfit, report drug war news either with breathlessness and sensationalism that bespeaks of an agenda, or in a tongue in cheek tone that shows the writers and publishers regard the cartel murders, which compose 90 percent of the killings in Mexico, as just a cost of doing business to get pot and crystal into the US.

And cartel shooters aren't urban guerrillas, they a buncha gawddam thungs

Posted by badanov 2011-05-14 14:47|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-05-14 14:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Almost all of the original Zetas are dead now, and the name has just been tacked onto street bangers with guns. When the original Zetas were operating, they were taking down large groups of rival cartel gunmen at a single time, and usually without any Zeta casualties.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-05-14 21:19|| 2011-05-14 21:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Decriminalize drugs in America and these people would be out of a job. Just sayin'.

Posted by rammer 2011-05-14 23:18|| 2011-05-14 23:18|| Front Page Top

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