August 16, 2012

  • Is the U.S. sending Seal Team Six to capture top drug cartel kingpin? American military ‘plotting mi

    Is the U.S. sending Seal Team Six to capture top drug cartel kingpin? American military ‘plotting military operation similar to bin Laden mission’

    • Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman is one of Mexico’s most wanted drug cartel kingpins
    • He escaped from prison in daring breakout in 2001
    • Mexican President Felipe Calderon reportedly reached out to U.S. for help in taking out Guzman in military raid
    • U.S. agencies have allegedly grown frustrated with Mexico’s inability to catch Guzman
    • Bin Laden killed in Seal Team Six raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011

    By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

    PUBLISHED: 23:29 EST, 14 August 2012 UPDATED: 23:29 EST, 14 August 2012

    On the run: Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been the subject of a vast manhunt for the last 11 years after escaping from a Mexico prison

    On the run: Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has been the subject of a vast manhunt for the last 11 years after escaping from a Mexico prison

    In an effort to catch one of the world’s most notorious drug kingpins, the U.S. may use the same daring methods that took down Osama bin Laden.

    More than a year after the terror leader’s demise in Abottabad, Pakistan, Seal Team Six raid, the highly-trained commandos may be dispatched to Mexico to kill or capture Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.

    Like the 9/11 Mastermind, Guzman has been the subject of a vast manhunt for the last ten years after he escaped from a Mexican high security prison in a complex breakout that reportedly cost him nearly $4million.

    Mexico’s Procesor magazine (English translation) reported that a new plan to get Guzman was hatched by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who felt the only way to catch him was through a military raid.

    But when Calderon was turned down by Mexico’s army and naval forces, he turned to the U.S. government, which has made catching or killing Guzman a priority.

    Sources told Procesor that the U.S. has grown increasingly more frustrated with Mexico’s failure to bring Guzman to justice – especially after a joint effort by U.S. agencies provided the information needed to catch him.

    Guzman presides over a $1billion drug empire and is accused of firing the first shot in a bloody cartel war that has so far killed nearly 50,000 people.

    The death of Osama Bin Laden pushed the notorious drug baron to the top of a list of international criminals compiled by international law enforcement officials and Forbes.

     
    Brutality: Guzman is wanted for allegedly firing the first shots in grisly drug cartel war which has gripped Mexico for years and has claimed about 50,000 lives

    Brutality: Guzman is wanted for allegedly firing the first shots in grisly drug cartel war which has gripped Mexico for years and has claimed about 50,000 lives

    Since then the drug lord known as ‘El Chapo’ because of his 5ft 2in height has eluded capture, protected by his vast Sinaloa drugs cartel and no doubt a legion of corrupt officials paid from his vast wealth.

    He has attained almost mythical status in Mexico vast drugs operation that runs shipments of tons at a time from Columbia into Mexico and on to the U.S.

     

     

    But such a lucrative operation will always attract competition and Loera is arguably responsible for more deaths than Bin Laden as his henchmen fight other cartels for control of lucrative transportation corridors into the U.S. 

    He is accused of starting Mexico’s cartel wars when his hitmen assassinated the leader of the Juarez cartel and his wife in 2004 in a bid to take control of the city of Cidudad Juarez, breaking the pact of non-aggression that had previously existed. 

     
    Target: A member of Seal Team Six shot and killed Osama bin Laden during the elite squad's daring raid of his compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan

    Target: A member of Seal Team Six shot and killed Osama bin Laden during the elite squad’s daring raid of his compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan

     
    In the Situation Room: President Obama watched the bin Laden raid with Vice President Biden and his closest advisers

    In the Situation Room: President Obama watched the bin Laden raid with Vice President Biden and his closest advisers

    As tit-for-tat fighting escalated, government troops were sent into drug strongholds in 2006 marking the start of a conflict that has ravaged Mexico.

    Guzman has been the number one drugs kingpin since the arrest of Osiel Cárdenas, head of the Gulf cartel in 2010.

    He first rose to prominence as the head of logistics for the Sinaloa cartel Salazar in the 1980s, coordinating flights boat shipments and truck journeys from Colombia into Mexico.

    Once his mentor was captured he took control of the entire cartel, before he himself was captured in 1993.

     
    Gripped by violence: Police tape surrounds the perimeter of the Matehuala Men's Club in Monterrey, Mexico, after a shooting inside

    Gripped by violence: Police tape surrounds the perimeter of the Matehuala Men’s Club in Monterrey, Mexico, after a shooting inside

    But he escaped from prison in 2001 when a guard opened his cell door and wheeled him out of the maximum security La Palma prison in a laundry basket.

    More than 70 people were arrested over the bold escape plan that may have involved local police, who allegedly gave him 24 hours to get away before the military moved in.

    He has evaded capture since, despite a series of narrow misses when the authorities were hours or minutes from catching him.

     
    Law and order: Government troops have been fighting drug violence in Mexico, but Guzman has never been re-captured

    Law and order: Government troops have been fighting drug violence in Mexico, but Guzman has never been re-captured

    One of the most chilling incidents was in 2009, when an Archbishop in the state of Durango said that the fugitive was ‘living nearby and everyone knows it except the authorities, who just don’t happen to see him for some reason.’

    Days later two undercover military officers were shot dead in their car, their bodies left with a note that read: ‘You’ll never get ‘El Chapo’, not the priests, not the government.’

    Now El Chapo is said to have infiltrated the highest level of Mexico’s government as President Felipe Calderon fights to keep control of his country amid claims that it is drug lords such as El Chapo who are really in charge.

     

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188558/Is-U-S-sending-Seal-Team-Six-capture-drug-cartel-kingpin-American-military-plotting-military-operation-similar-bin-Laden-mission.html#ixzz23hdsSTGC

     

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Comments (4)

  • There are enormous failures at every juncture of the so called Drug War. What difference have all of the eradication efforts, interdiction programs, long term incarcerations, sentencing insanity, corruption of major and minor proportions throughout the entire disaster, actually made in the relationship that American consumers have with all Drugs. Nothing whatsoever has been accomplished, and billions of dollars and countless lives have been lost in vain. If you want to really attack the problematic relationship of people and the Drugs they choose to use, then you need to get at the source issues that govern why people embark on Drug use in the first place. A complete and thorough program must be instituted in every single school, in every single classroom, and it must be properly funded so that the very best quality social scientists, psychologists, therapists, and medical professionals are given a significant incentive to take up the challenge. That is where the Drug War is going to be eventually won or lost. What the United States has been doing the last 40 years is an embarrassing joke, that any intelligent person understands has no possible chance to do anything but be a complicit contributor to the actual problem, as it draws away funding and research into programs that can be efficacious in reversing the tide of ravaged lives torn apart from addiction to all forms of pharmacological and illicit Drug abuse. It is way past due that this realistic assessment become part of Public Policy. Otherwise, there is just another El Chapo waiting to make a fortune and a legend to his people, selling Gringos whatever they so infernally desire, and so richly deserve.

  • @vegasmike433 - 
    Hello Mike,
    Thanks so much for giving us a platform for speaking to this problem for which there is no viable way to mend this debacle, embarrassing waste of taxpayer dollars, but most of all for the gun battles, drive by shootings which take our children held innnocently in a parents arms or standing in their play pens near a window on the wrong night — Which is about any night, in any small to larger city in the USA every week of every wasted year we keep this charade of a, “Drug War,” which is a war so old and lost that school children never knew that it was declared about a half century ago now. When we are talking about how broke we are from the United States Government to all the fortunes which fed wall street; Then rest assured that money which reaches our banks in those amounts are even more venomous, because drug money goes everywhere, and is it the awful truth, perhaps, that we are afraid to lose that kind of money turning over like golden pastries deep fried in the finest oil rising to the top, for only a light pastry could rise in such a fragrant bath and tease us like sweet sughar on our tongues.

    Meanwhile we watch people lining up for food, a lot of them unable to work, because they are so brain dead that job placement is fully impossible, but let us throw them a few dollars each month and not even presume they are human beings who have loves, lives, children, Jail time just means access to other drugs. qnd incarceration gets folks a shower a day, dry clothes, and guaranteed health care; but if you want drug rehab, then you are a bigger glut on society.

    Billions, billions, and billions of dollars, enough to have paid down are national debt are lost in this, so called, “War.” Bring it down to humanitarian need and the need to provide little children homes, and no court will ever convice me these children are in better hands with their parents, but they wind up going again and again.

    Billions — every year for 50 years or more, and what do we have to show for it? We send children to hospitals when they are ill, and they do well. From those I have known, raised in orphanages was really not all of that bad, and your family became those who ran group homes out of love. Many billions could have kept children from being drug from home to home in this thing called, “Foster Parenting,” for God knows that it is a disaster if you let the kids and the families get too close, for the parents might show up one day needing the little spending money a child might have; And we are afraid of foster parents getting too close.

    Billions of these sam dollars given for cancer an diabetes might have given physician researchers the time and the Luxemburg to have moved along in chronic diseases of children;Have you ever held a baby with a brain tumor? Those babies become like little rag dolls in your arms, and you just want to see them be normal children, but we do not have the research dollars, and the excuse is that the dollars have to be stretched so far.

    I cannot decide the morals of other human being when we are all out for ourselves in one way or the other, but I am positive more work could have been done in the labs from CDC to private research, to NIH using the dollars we are wasting in Mexico, from the middle east and across the globe allowing labs to be filled with willing volunteers to endeavor to stamp out movement disorders such as; Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson, and Alzheimers which will grow in numbers with the aging of the population. These diseases, and others like ALS could be a full decade further along had the money for gang wars been used for the good of those who strain their eyes over microscopes rather than the deviant soldiers out to kill US Drug Enforcement Agencies through telescopic gun lenses which will pop off again tonight in every city and most towns across America this very night.

    Counting the billions, then add in the cost of hospitalizations, the police officers. incarceration of lower level drug runners who have two dimes to rub together themselves. and the money pot just keeps brimming over, so full, so fast, and so immoral,for the deaths are too many, and the costs are too high. American people are not stupid about how we get to see a dispplay of a recent haul made by our government spread out on a few table bunched together, and those same films just keep being spread out and carried around like a trophy in a case. We, the people, know that their are cargo bellies in Airplanes, vans and truck loads which go through the borders, especially from South America and the dissemination to get it to the drug hungry across leave us a a laughing stock among natios.

    Please, just dream for a moment when America can start teaching the children young enough that they can go to sleep at night without fear, for we have become smarter than the Drug Lords, and we have decided to provide places where people can get what they need to ease their addictions without going to the corner dealer. Think of a day when the side walk jerks will not be standing around packing their pistols, because no selling is going on. We might bother to tell them that a lot o these people are just sick and they needed bad chemicals, but they do not have assault rifles.

    Legalization, cooperation among the military and local governments to get military style weapons which are apt to be stolen anyway; and I do mean bring in the troops at borders when necessary, education from community to community that the fight had to be in cutting off the market, then these are a dawn in helping to get our cost back, and to change who controls what it happening which makes the poorest among us a chance to know the pleasure of becoming a free society ourselves once more. Marijuana is not anything you would want your kids to use, but they are less apt to die from the consequences of it than from OTC drugs made poison by mixing them with more alcohol than a child’s body could bear.

    As the police officers I have spoken with have noted; Marijuana intoxication is rarely a cause for alarm, for people are not abusive and threatening as when they are intoxicated from alcohol or who have gotten street drugs mixed with unknown substances which can put a child or an adult in cardiac arrest. We would be better off to let the hemp go back to just being an old field plant our fathers used to know about instead of the ridiculous criminalization of our kids, or older parents who grew up in that culture — Many are CEOs right now. The misinformation about street drugs is overwhelming, but could we please agree that having kids sell themselves as prostitutes male and female to try out a drug which is apt to be in any southern cow pasture to this day is most probably not worth the incarceration of our kids??

    I beg everyone to think a little higher that the billions adds up to trillions, and we we deal with more addicts, but we cannot deal with little babies being shot in their mother’s arms, and bullets spraying the windows where there is not one thought as to how many and whom shall die. Please, help us make this an issue in the world of politics to come, and I mean if we have to bring in the soldiers to begin the clean up; Then bring them home.

    Every week another San Francisco Bay Area kid is shot because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, and mother’s knees give way as they gather in a church to say farewell to their child. It is time for us to demand in decriminalization, time to give up a war we cannot win, and the time is now. Who wants these drug wars to continue as they are?

    There are a couple of factions. One is that it keeps our minds off of the devastation going on around us and our economy which is still pathetic, and it brings the debate around once more of where our dollars are best spent — Illegal Drug Hunts,or research, education, and preventative care for all children. We can put some of those dollars towark asking why people choose to use in the first place, and it is apt to come down to the truth that we Americans live in discontent when it appears to others that we have the chance to have it all. The destiny jar has not been opened for most, but we are innundated with all that would make us richer. We, most of us, live out ideals of how we should look happy instad of asking ourselves early in life what is the sum of happiness within us.

    In childhood, we bring much joy to most parents. As young adults we are told how horrible we will be and about our raging hormones, and how out of control we will feel. We give our children the right to disrespect us early on — A time honored idiotic American idea instead of expecting that from the earliest days respect for one’s self and for others is paramount to all that we shall ever become. Mike is so right, that we cannot start teaching our children early enough what is out there which can destroy them, but to also teach them what they need to know to stay alive.

    The hardest role you will ever take is to raise a cild, but we begin very early to make our children believe all can be fixed, and you never have to be anything to anyone but a purveyor of happiness. Our truth is that we know very well that life is a blend, so we teach them that sometimes we are sad, and sometis we are without, but to tell them we expect they are going to get out and experiment with every substance handed to them to ease their pain — Means that we are pretending the hard times are not going to come, so the earliest we may begin; let us teach them self respect and to be respetful to others, and if that is too hard, then let us get some help. I just question how we have become a society which jails children for victimless crimes of acting stupid.

    I thank Mike for bringing this endless loss of our country’s assets and beg all voting Americans to open these billions, into trillions of dollars up to help mankind.

    Thank you for this opportunity to allow me to express something which I am seeing as a flaw in America right now, and correlate it to John Kennedy’s verse from ECClee fsiastes that there is a time for all things under heaven, and we may as well fight the good fight together, to stop the war we cannot win, and place our money where the dollars for healing can be available. Let us know when we are whipped both at home and abron ad and use, “The Can Do American Spirit,” to take care of our children at home and abroad. Thank you.

    Barbara Everett Heintz — Author of “Pinkhoneysuckle,” The Book, Kindle Ready And Amazon

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