Aug 26th 2011 at 9:47 am in Afghanistan, Border Security, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, Latin America, Obama, Strategy “Mexican commandos have discreetly traveled to the United States, assembled at designated areasand dispatched helicopter missions back across the border aimed at suspected drug traffickers,” reports the New York Times. This is all part of what the Obama Administration is calling “boomerang operations” which are designed to get at Mexican drug traffickers through the back door. ”The cartels don’t expect Mexican police coming from the U.S.,” one senior military official told the Times.
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| Afghanistan….now Mexico |
Clearly things are not going well in Mexico. “Although the operations remain rare, they are part of a broadening American campaign aimed at blunting the power of Mexican cartels that have built criminal networks spanning the world…”
The collaboration also means the United States is getting more deeply involved in Mexico. We are flying Predator and Global Hawk drones “deep over Mexico” to monitor drug cartel activity. And “the DEA has set up an intelligence outpost–staffed by Central Intelligence Agency operatives and retired American military personnel—to a Mexican military base.” At the same time, senior military officers at the Northern Command in Colorado Springs, are helping analyze intelligence on the cartels. These are officers who were heavily involved in U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
“The military is trying to take what it did in Afghanistan and do the same in Mexico,” one officer told the Times. Yikes.
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