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Were they really Mexican soldiers? Or smugglers dressed as Mexican soldiers?

6 posted on 01/25/2006 7:05:47 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])

Does it matter? They crossed the border illegally, and were armed...!

10 posted on 01/25/2006 7:07:21 AM PST by bocopar (Author's Response)

Were they really Mexican soldiers? Or smugglers dressed as Mexican soldiers?

How about Mexican soldiers working for the smugglers? Too many possibilities and too little information. We need our folks to capture some of these people and their vehicles to see who they really are.

17 posted on 01/25/2006 7:10:25 AM PST by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)

Were they really Mexican soldiers? Or smugglers dressed as Mexican soldiers?

Shoot them and find out.

19 posted on 01/25/2006 7:11:58 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)

"Were they really Mexican soldiers?"

If Mexico denies that these were soldiers, then our officers should engage the armed actors when encountered.

22 posted on 01/25/2006 7:13:41 AM PST by Deguello

Well at last, there was a decent interview of a reporter that has been investigating these incursions for quite awhile and a well-spoken former SAIC FBI agent Crawford who has documented similar incidents. He said he didn't want to be accused of dropping the ball on his watch while he was SAIC in the El Paso district.

Given my experience in the border country, these two were very credible sounding. They believe that the uniformed and armed thugs were indeed Mex Army (Ejercito Federal) personnel in league with drug smugglers, probably as a security detail.

One Mex vehicle, a Humvee type (if not a real Humvee) was reportedly armed with a .50 machine gun, either the reporting Hudspeth Cty deputy was hyping the details or knows his weapons.

Seems that TX Troopers are the ones who gave chase but also in my experience, they often took the credit for a lot of hard work of other agency's officers, more facts need to be verified but until then--REPEL THE INVADERS and shoot to kill. After all, Mexico denies that they were Mex Army, 'nuff said, get to work boys...

49 posted on 01/25/2006 7:38:06 AM PST by brushcop (Mission Accomplished B-Co, 2/69 3d ID! God bless you and WELCOME HOME!)

Were they really Mexican soldiers? Or smugglers dressed as Mexican soldiers?

What's the difference?

86 posted on 01/25/2006 10:11:37 AM PST by HiJinx (~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Operation Valentine's Day ~ Serving those who serve us ~)

What's the diff? Aren't all Mexican soldiers smugglers?

104 posted on 01/25/2006 4:10:21 PM PST by databoss

Either way, shoot 'em.

105 posted on 01/25/2006 4:10:47 PM PST by RockinRight (Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)

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