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Massive 240-yard drug smuggling tunnel with lights, air shafts and sophisticated support beams
Associated Press ^ | 7/12/12 | Staff

Posted on 07/12/2012 7:41:58 PM PDT by Nachum

Authorities in Arizona unearthed a sophisticated 240-yard drug-smuggling tunnel stretching into Mexico that included engineered support beams, lights and ventilation. The six-foot-high corridor ran from a store in an abandoned strip mall near Yuma to an ice shop across the border in San Luis Rio Colorado. It provided a direct link to the US for Mexican drug cartels. The Mexican Army also found a second, incomplete, tunnel under a bathroom sink in Tijuana that stretched more than 200 yards into San Diego, California. The diggers had not yet reached the surface when authorities shut it down.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderwars; cartels; drug; drugs; drugwar; smuggling; tunnel; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wosd
Full title: Massive 240-yard drug smuggling tunnel with lights, air shafts and sophisticated support beams linked Mexican cartels with Arizona strip mall
1 posted on 07/12/2012 7:42:07 PM PDT by Nachum
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This cannot be true.. in about 1995 or so Sen. Feinstein came to San Diego, and with a grand photo op over a huge tunnel that had been found declared that these tunnels were illegal..


2 posted on 07/12/2012 7:46:49 PM PDT by JoanneSD (TEA PARTY VERSES TEE TIME)
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To: Nachum

This cannot be true.. in about 1995 or so Sen. Feinstein came to San Diego, and with a grand photo op over a huge tunnel that had been found declared that these tunnels were illegal..


3 posted on 07/12/2012 7:47:02 PM PDT by JoanneSD (TEA PARTY VERSES TEE TIME)
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To: Nachum

El Colonel de la Policia, to El Padron del Drogos: “That’s a nicely engineered tunnel you have there. Beautiful structural beams! And that systemo de ventilacion... que magnifico! Be a shame if it were to be discovered. Do you have my bribe money? No? ...”


4 posted on 07/12/2012 7:52:42 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Nachum
My apologies at being ignorant on how to post a link. But this thread made me think of this product which I wish I had to rid my property of unwanted burrowing varmints. If you hate varmints and love explosions it is worth copying and pasting this link. This would be a great fix for those pesky tunnels they keep finding.

http://www.rodenator.com/pests-controls-videos-rodenators

5 posted on 07/12/2012 7:55:54 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Buy and read Ameritopia by Mark Levin!)
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To: MomwithHope

Nah, just fill the tunnel from a zippo track.


6 posted on 07/12/2012 8:13:12 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: MomwithHope

that’s really cool!


7 posted on 07/12/2012 8:17:31 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

yeah, I could so have a blast using one around here.


8 posted on 07/12/2012 8:19:01 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Buy and read Ameritopia by Mark Levin!)
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To: SandRat

Most domestic police dept. don’t have tracked APC’s let alone one with a flame thrower .

What they do have/get on short notice are tear gas grenades ,blue/silver tarps & a leaf blower. Cover the tunnel entrance with the tarp weighed down around the edges ,put gas mask , drop gas grenades down the shaft to the tunnel use the leaf blower to blow the gas down the tunnel.

Get on the roof with a set of binoculars & look for were the folks come running out of a building hacking coughing & puking & that is were the other end of the tunnel is .


9 posted on 07/12/2012 8:25:43 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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To: Nachum

We should’ve hired these guys for the ‘Big dig’ in Boston.


10 posted on 07/12/2012 8:59:08 PM PDT by bramps (Newt was the one, but Romney will do.)
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To: MomwithHope
rodenator
11 posted on 07/12/2012 9:06:51 PM PDT by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: Nebr FAL owner
Most domestic police dept. don’t have tracked APC’s let alone one with a flame thrower.

I think those come after the drones, snipers and ARs. In other words, wait a few more weeks; they're militarizing as fast as they can and budgets are a little tight.
12 posted on 07/12/2012 9:08:12 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Nebr FAL owner

Sounds like a great plan!! Should be pretty easy to spot, especially if you put some color in the tear gas!


13 posted on 07/12/2012 10:10:46 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Nachum

Valve in a whole bunch of acetylene and flick a Bic.


14 posted on 07/12/2012 10:58:45 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: Nachum

The solution: wait until tunnel is occupied; pump in poison gas. Remove remains. Repeat as necessary.


15 posted on 07/13/2012 8:25:55 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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The solution: wait until tunnel is occupied; pump in poison gas. Remove remains. Repeat as necessary.

Why foul the ground water? A few well placed explosives would do.

16 posted on 07/13/2012 9:11:46 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Why foul the ground water? A few well placed explosives would do.

But that would collapse the tunnel, and void the "repeat as necessary" action. Get a few, or get a lot a few at a time?

17 posted on 07/13/2012 11:40:22 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Nachum
The profit motive at work. This will continue to happen as long as our War On Drugs hyperinflates drug profits and restricts them to criminal hands.
18 posted on 07/13/2012 12:01:14 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: SuziQ

Just drop a colored smoke grenade down the shaft along with the tear gas problem solved.


19 posted on 07/16/2012 10:41:07 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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To: Nebr FAL owner
Just drop a colored smoke grenade down the shaft along with the tear gas problem solved.

Sounds like a plan!

20 posted on 07/16/2012 7:47:31 PM PDT by SuziQ
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