{"article":{"id":224982,"heading":"Mexican Drug Cartel members arrested across the U.S.","author":"Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Rep","created":"2009-02-26 20:32:45","modified":"2009-02-27 12:30:14","last_modified":"Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:30:14","article":"<br>  <br> MICHAEL WEBSTER: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. Feb 25, 2009 at 12:01 PM PST. <br><br> DEA captures suspects, drugs, planes, boats, cars in over 100 U.S. Cities  <br><br> In the first arrests of Mexican Drug Cartels in U.S.History U.S. Federal agents rounded up and arrested over 750 suspected Mexican Drug Cartel members across the country in a wide-ranging task force crackdown on a Mexican Drug Cartels operating inside and on the United States soil, Federal law enforcement officials told this reporter Tuesday. <br><br> This massive undertaking was started in the Bush administration 21 months ago and carried out by the Obama presidency. <br><br> The DEA said that they seized $60 million in U.S. currency; 12,535 kilograms of cocaine; more than 16,000 pounds of marijuana; more than 12 pounds of methamphetamine; approximately 8 kilograms of heroin; approximately 1.3 million pills or 500 pounds of Ecstasy; approximately 120 kilograms of MDMA powder; and more than $6.5 million in other assets, including 149 vehicles, 3 aircraft, 3 maritime vessels and 169 weapons.  <br><br> The arrests against the Mexican Drug Cartels culminated in a series of Drug Enforcement Administration raids Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in cities and towns across America totaling more than a 100.  <br>  <br> The agent spoke with me on condition of anonymity because authorities were still gathering evidence and more arrests are expected. <br>  <br> Kidnappings, killings and other violence related to the cross-border drug trade have escalated as well financed and heavily armed Mexican drug Cartel gangs battle for territory on both sides of the border feeding the huge U.S. narcotics market. <br>  <br> Many feel that it has now become a full blown civil war in Mexico and the United States is doing what it can to stem the tide of that war and are incorporating it into the U.S. war on drugs and terror. <br>  <br> \n","contact":"mvwsr@aol.com","link":"www.usborderfirereport.com","address":"","phone":"949 494=7121","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The DEA said that they seized $60 million in U.S. currency; 12,535 kilograms of cocaine; more than 16,000 pounds of marijuana; more than 12 pounds of methamphetamine; approximately 8 kilograms of heroin; approximately 1.3 million pills or 500 pounds of Ecstasy; approximately 120 kilograms of MDMA powder; and more than $6.5 million in other assets, including 149 vehicles, 3 aircraft, 3 maritime vessels and 169 weapons. ","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2009\/02\/224982.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":224997,"heading":"dog gone it","article":"-across the country in a wide-ranging task force crackdown -\r\n\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s make a nicy nice excuse for police state crafted programs they have begun; to acclimatize us to Martial Law.  Like exploiting the predicted effects of their* War on Drugs.  Drugs that the CIA ships in from Afghanistan, Columbia and in this case Mexico, through their scape goat mules aka \u201c Mexican Drug Cartels\u201d \r\n* The Wall Street banksters employ the CIA.\r\n\r\n\r\nTroublesome to me are the federal \u2018crackdowns\u2019 \u2018round ups\u2019 and other Falcon* type exercises initiated by an over reaching criminal federal government.\r\nRemember that the Waco massacre used the military [ thanks for the tactical assistance, Gen, Clark ] in a \u2018drug\u2019 enforcement roll.\r\n* do a search on Operation Falcon\r\nAnd of course this \u2018news\u2019 agency makes it look legit when we all should know the CIA\u2019s master roll in the drugs, the weapons and the death squad destabilization of the client narco Mexican state.  Now that the CIA can openly operate here [ like they haven't been since they were created] against their original charter, we should also expect a wave of violence domestically cooked up by our friends in the same agency.\r\nGood going.  National Security is a cover for evil bastards to do in the dark what in the light of day would prompt abhorrence and reprisal from a sane society.\r\n\r\n","author":"War on Spooknews","parent_id":224982,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2009-02-27 12:30:14","modified":"2013-11-11 00:59:52","fileurl":""}]}