Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
FAST AND FURIOUS
As much as I hate the Los Angeles Times, and always suspect their news coverage, but they seem to be on top of this ATFE Gun-walker debacle.
It just galls me, a newspaper, Editorially anti-basic American freedoms can get its jollies off with this story.
They haven't done it yet, far as I know, but they will eventually get around to using it against citizens Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
So now we read about the ATFE's cozy relationship with Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader.
Fast and Furious weapons were found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home
Guns illegally purchased under the ATF operation were found in April hidden in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, court records show.
This arsenal uncovered by police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in April turned out to include weapons from the ATF's ill-fated Fast and Furious operation.
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.
In all, 100 assault weapons acquired under Fast and Furious were transported 350 miles from Phoenix to El Paso, making that West Texas city a central hub for gun traffickers. Forty of the weapons made it across the border and into the arsenal of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader in Ciudad Juarez, according to federal court records and trace documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The smugglers' tactics — quickly moving the weapons far from ATF agents in southern Arizona, where it had been assumed they would circulate — vividly demonstrate that what had been viewed as a local problem was much larger. Six other Fast and Furious guns destined for El Paso were recovered in Columbus, N.M.
FULL STORY
AND
Full coverage: ATF's Fast and Furious scandal
Good Reading
It just galls me, a newspaper, Editorially anti-basic American freedoms can get its jollies off with this story.
They haven't done it yet, far as I know, but they will eventually get around to using it against citizens Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
So now we read about the ATFE's cozy relationship with Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader.
Fast and Furious weapons were found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home
Guns illegally purchased under the ATF operation were found in April hidden in violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, court records show.
This arsenal uncovered by police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in April turned out to include weapons from the ATF's ill-fated Fast and Furious operation.
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.
In all, 100 assault weapons acquired under Fast and Furious were transported 350 miles from Phoenix to El Paso, making that West Texas city a central hub for gun traffickers. Forty of the weapons made it across the border and into the arsenal of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader in Ciudad Juarez, according to federal court records and trace documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The smugglers' tactics — quickly moving the weapons far from ATF agents in southern Arizona, where it had been assumed they would circulate — vividly demonstrate that what had been viewed as a local problem was much larger. Six other Fast and Furious guns destined for El Paso were recovered in Columbus, N.M.
FULL STORY
AND
Full coverage: ATF's Fast and Furious scandal
Good Reading
Muslims and Coptic Christians Clash
It was bound to happen.
Extremism is not the sole province of Muslims. Scapegoating is a tradition shared all over the world throughout history.
12 dead in Egypt as Christians and Muslims clash
CAIRO — Clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians in a Cairo suburb left 12 people dead, dozens wounded and a church charred in one of the most serious outbreaks of violence Egypt’s interim rulers have faced since taking power in February.
The unrest began Saturday night in the Imbaba district northwest of Cairo, as a mob of hard-line Muslims attacked the Virgin Mary church. A separate group of youths also attacked an apartment building several blocks away, residents said.
The assaults were the latest agitation triggered by allegations that Copts have held women against their will because they intended to convert to Islam.
FULL STORY-Washington Post
An accusation which the Christians deny.
Nobody should be surprised that after President Honsi Mubarak left office, there would be a struggle, sometimes ugly, to fill the resulting power vacuum.
Extremism is not the sole province of Muslims. Scapegoating is a tradition shared all over the world throughout history.
12 dead in Egypt as Christians and Muslims clash
CAIRO — Clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians in a Cairo suburb left 12 people dead, dozens wounded and a church charred in one of the most serious outbreaks of violence Egypt’s interim rulers have faced since taking power in February.
FULL STORY-Washington Post
An accusation which the Christians deny.
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