Posted on 03/16/2002 2:15:46 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Guess you'll never win, huh?
You can, however, sign up for the fifth time.
You've already blown this handle.
DD, indeed.
The El Paso FBI is investigating an 18-year-old Juárez man who was detained Thursday night at the Paso del Norte Bridge with a detonator device for possible "attempted bombing and explosive law violations," FBI Special Agent Al Cruz said Friday.
"The suspect is a Mexican citizen in the custody of the INS on violations of U.S. immigration laws," Cruz said. "What the FBI is investigating is a bomb case."
Roberto J. Moreno, the suspect, allegedly also possessed the means to create false documents, officials said.
"The detonator was homemade, but the only thing it was missing to make it a bomb was explosive material," El Paso police Sgt. Al Velarde said.
Moreno was in custody Friday at the El Paso County Jail under $2,000 bond. Authorities did not provide any details about his background or what he planned to do with the device.
Although Moreno was stopped at 7:30 p.m., officials did not close the Paso del Norte Bridge until 9:30 p.m. -- two hours after the detonator was intercepted. They reopened it about two hours later.
"We are reviewing why the bridge wasn't closed sooner," Velarde said. "It was the El Paso Police Department that made the call to close the bridge as a safety precaution."
Detonator Led to Bridge Shutdown(Saturday archives)
For some reason you'll hear about Americans shutting down airports by running up down escalators but you aren't going to hear much about this kind of thing. This happened this last Friday.
If illegals care one iota about America, they would have found it worthwhile to apply for legal immigration before they came. If you made a requirement that they had to at least speak the language of this country and know at least the minimum about the US Constitution, they'd squeal so loud about that being unfair.
On Mar. 14, shortly after 10 p.m. local time, "two Mexican army Humvees carrying about 16 armed soldiers drove across the international boundary and into the United States near Santa Teresa, New Mexico." There the vehicles pursued a Border Patrol vehicle, which was "outfitted with decals and emergency lights (that were activated for much of the pursuit) over a mile into the United States."
The lead Mexican army vehicle, the Border Patrol council said, contained nine soldiers "armed with seven automatic assault rifles, one submachine gun, and two .45 caliber pistols," and was eventually apprehended by other Border Patrol units. The second Humvee, however, "pursued a Border Patrol agent on horseback and fired a shot at him. The soldiers then disembarked their vehicle, fired upon one more Border Patrol agent and chased another agent before fleeing [back] to Mexico in their vehicle."
U.S. Border Patrol agent Union officials said the members of the lead Mexican army vehicle were debriefed and eventually allowed to return to Mexico with their arms and vehicle.
Though the incident "is the most serious to date," the council said, "it is but one of hundreds of incursions that have been reported over the past several years," and it has led union officials to call on Congress and the Clinton administration to deal with it.
(snip) "That was no accident," Joseph Dassaro, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, told reporters in El Paso, Texas. "The Mexican military was well into U.S. territory for way over a mile and chased and fired at agents."
As confirmed by Border Patrol officials, the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico's biggest drug gangs, has indeed placed a bounty of $200,000 on U.S. lawmen.
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A foreign military unit comes into the U.S. and fires on government officials. This is an act of war by any standard. We should have responded with overwhelming force the very next day.
No nation can let a foreign military come into the country and shoot at citizens. This just shows how far our society has degenerated, that we allow this and the people are not up in arms about it.
Conspiracy?? What in hell are you talking about? What you should be concerned about, given the porosity of our southern borders, is the question:"Who didn't they catch?"
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