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2010-04-15 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Pappy 2010-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Ditto rise in IED utility for PHILIPPINE MILITANTS + FARC.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-15 01:01|| na 2010-04-15 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Hence the influence of Hezbollah from Venezuela. Plus the added factor of some wahabbist buddies in the drugpin. Dubai is launder, South America is just a testing phase for now.

We are in a developing Sh!* storm here in the US. Leadership is naive or should be considered complicit. It is, after all, a Constitutionally mandated duty they hold Oath to.

Posted by newc 2010-04-15 01:26|| 2010-04-15 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Mining grade explosives would produce much better booms than the fertiliser based explosives used in Ghan.

Posted by phil_b 2010-04-15 02:48|| 2010-04-15 02:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Methinks cartels could make IEDs without being taugh by Muzzies.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-04-15 05:31|| 2010-04-15 05:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Methinks cartels could make IEDs without being taugh by Muzzies

Exactly. And based on captured devices, they're also still on a learning curve.

Posted by Pappy 2010-04-15 08:37|| 2010-04-15 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Different genus, same family of low life creatures.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-15 08:57|| 2010-04-15 08:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The violence being committed by the Drug Cartels matches and even exceeds that of the violence in the ongoing war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Mexican Attorney Generals Office reports that as of March 13 of this year it had counted 10,475 executions since the beginning of President Felipe Calderons term on December 1, 2006.

It's not just Mexico's war. In 230 U.S. cities, the cartels maintain distribution hubs or supply drugs to local distributors, the U.S. federal government reports. This cartel activity spawns violence within the U.S.--not just along the border. Mexico is the gateway for about 70% of foreign drugs; drugs from places other than Mexico.

So, what should be done by the U.S. about this problem?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-15 09:09|| 2010-04-15 09:09|| Front Page Top

#8 I would suggest bringing our troops home from the Stan and stationing them along the Mexican border in all those little forts built back in the Indian War days. Then turning them loose on the cartels both inside and outside of the USA. I would suspect that the indigenous population would be much more supportive than the stone aged tribesmen we are trying to help in Stan.

Posted by bman 2010-04-15 11:14|| 2010-04-15 11:14|| Front Page Top

#9 No one has mentioned the real cause.
Supply & DEMAND.
Please if you know any people into self-medication, try and convince them that imported drugs are at the core of major problems for America. American's drug consumption has now begun to take on a new dynamic in the war on terror.

Posted by Mike Hunt 2010-04-15 11:38|| 2010-04-15 11:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Interesting article a few weeks back on WebMD. Apparently, "generic" drugs made outside the US may contain anywhere from 0% to 150% of the active ingredient in the drug. The same drugs may have any number of other "ingredients", ranging from sugar in oral insulin to rat poison, peanut flour, and beet sugar. Another article covered the theft and resale of drugs from warehouses to individuals. Insulin that had not been kept refrigerated was sold, and caused at least two deaths.

Our current "fight" against drugs is aimed at the wrong end of the stick, in many respects. It's also failing miserably. The entire effort needs to be re-thought, re-focused, and reinforced. If we don't, and soon, we'll be fighting the cartels in rural America.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-04-15 13:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/ 2010-04-15 13:49|| Front Page Top

#11 "He pulls an IED, you pull your Hellfire and cancel his ticket right then and there."

Posted by mojo 2010-04-15 14:05|| 2010-04-15 14:05|| Front Page Top

#12 No one has mentioned the real cause.
Supply & DEMAND.

Agreed, Mike H. There'd be no market if there weren't any buyers.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-15 14:06|| 2010-04-15 14:06|| Front Page Top

#13 hell even the pres is on drugs, he wants too land a man on an asteroid

Posted by chris 2010-04-15 16:20|| 2010-04-15 16:20|| Front Page Top

#14 IED training has an interesting recent history. The experts at IED's were the IRA. They taught most of the European terrorists and the muzzies. They also taught the Phils and FARC. When I was younger, my 20's, I thought the IRA were freedom fighters, struggling for a noble cause. After a few years in the CT arena I realized they are just another bunch of terrorists that needed dealing with and we can thank for roadside bombs.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-04-15 18:32|| 2010-04-15 18:32|| Front Page Top

#15 Allow assassinations again. Get Mexican permission and bring in Ac 130s to take out drug lord estates and make it painful for them. Blame other cartels for the damage if possible.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2010-04-15 19:09|| 2010-04-15 19:09|| Front Page Top

#16 I have often thought that triple concertina wire with land mines [with warnings] at the border might just discourage illegal drugs coming across the border into the U.S. That would work on the supply side. We can then work on the demand side on this side. We need to find ways to prosecute these drug lords on both sides of the border under U.S. Federal drug laws.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-15 19:40|| 2010-04-15 19:40|| Front Page Top

#17 interdicted shipments are laced with cyanide and allowed to continue. that would put a pretty good crimp in the demand once word got out.

just sayin...

Posted by abu do you love 2010-04-15 19:49|| 2010-04-15 19:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Barry Soetoro will do NOTHING! He never even mentions the drug or border problems. Drugs are an economic staple of the urban economy. Yes, the same urban economy he grew up and came to prominence in.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-15 19:51|| 2010-04-15 19:51|| Front Page Top

#19 same urban economy he grew up

If by urban economy you mean upper middle class upbringing provided by bank VP grandparents. Any class and racial resentments were inculcated by a hard leftist mother and grandparents and a communist agent baby daddy.

Posted by ed 2010-04-15 20:05|| 2010-04-15 20:05|| Front Page Top

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