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| Subject: Mexico: Free Traders VS Soldiers Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:43 pm | |
| Army confiscates James Bond-style truck
Mexican soldiers battling a violent drug gang and corrupt local police have confiscated a sport utility vehicle decked out with extras worthy of a James Bond movie.
Cartel members rammed their SUV into a military truck patrolling in the state of Tamaulipas and threw a hand grenade before making their escape with the help of local police, the army said in a statement.
Following a shootout with the gang, soldiers said they arrested four municipal police and confiscated an armoured Jeep Grand Cherokee equipped with a smoke machine and spike sprayer meant to deter pursuers.
Soldiers also confiscated dozens of rifles, pistols and hand grenades, 3000 of rounds of ammunition and $US20,000 ($A21,550) in cash, the army said.
President Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of soldiers and federal police to hot-spots across Mexico, where cartel violence has killed more than 300 people so far this year and left more than 2,500 dead in 2007.
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CovOps
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| Subject: Re: Mexico: Free Traders VS Soldiers Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:58 pm | |
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- Police arrested a woman on suspicion of overseeing a network of spies that tracked police for the powerful Gulf drug cartel, which dominates smuggling in the state of Tamaulipas.
Atta girl... that's the way to start getting to them... do unto them, what they do unto you... |
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