Mexican Military to Use Armed UAV?S to Track and Kill the Mexican Drug Cartel’s Leadership

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“In one instance last year recounted by the employees, a 500-pound bomb dropped off a Predator before it hit the target, leading to a frantic search for the unexploded bomb in the remote Afghan-Pakistani border region,” the Times reported. “It was eventually found about 100 yards from the original target.”

This article builds on the Times stories in Thursday’s editions that the CIA hired Blackwater for a secret program to find and kill high-value targets in al Qaeda. The program did not lead to the deaths of any Qaeda operatives and CIA Director Leon Panetta ended it shortly after learning about its existence.
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, immediately south of neighboring El Paso, Texas, is arguably the most dangerous municipality in the Americas. The mayor, José Reyes Ferriz, told me that in the last twelve months more than 1,600 of his citizens have been murdered as his city became the epicenter of a vicious “turf war” among rival drug cartels vying for a larger slice of the lucrative “drug delivery business.” When he called for help, President Calderon sent in the only force he could trust: the Mexican Army. Retired military officers now run the city police force and joint military/police units patrol the streets. Even this hasn’t stopped the bloodbath. Last month more than 240 people perished in this murderous metropolis.    The Mayor says something drastic needs to be done and he supports segments of the proposed UAV’s program.

Sources:
 
Forbes
Washington Post
Brian Wingfield
The Ottawa Citizen September
New York Times
Oliver North
Ciudad Juarez Mayor, José Reyes Ferriz
Open source Mexican newspapers
Mexican Military

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