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US Troops attacked on US border.

 
 
Baldimo
 
Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 02:38 pm
TUCSON, Ariz. ?- National Guard troops working at an observatory post near the Mexican border were forced to flee after being approached by a group of armed individuals, authorities said.
The event occurred about 11 p.m. Wednesday at one of the National Guard entrance identification team posts near Sasabe, said National Guard Sgt. Edward Balaban.
He said the troops withdrew safely, no shots were fired and no one suffered injuries.
U.S. Border Patrol officials are investigating the incident and trying to determine who the armed people were, what they were doing and why they approached the post before retreating to Mexico.
The incident occurred in the west desert corridor between Nogales and Lukeville in the vicinity of Sasabe, Balaban said.
"We don't know exactly how many because obviously it took place in the dark," Balaban said. "Nobody was able to get an accurate count."
The Guard troops are not allowed to apprehend illegal entrants.
"We don't know if this was a matter of somebody coming up accidentally on the individuals, coming up intentionally on the individuals, or some sort of a diversion," said Rob Daniels, spokesman for the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector.
The west desert corridor has been the busiest in the Tucson Sector for marijuana seizures since last year.
Agents have seized 124,000 pounds of marijuana there since Oct. 1, Daniels said.
With more Border Patrol agents and National Guard troops patrolling the Arizona section of the U.S.-Mexican border, it has become more difficult to smuggle drugs and people across and "that heightened frustration may have been connected to what took place last night," Daniels said.
Officials will make a decision following the investigation about whether changes need to be made in regard to the entrance identification teams, Balaban said.
Since arriving in mid-June, the Guard has assisted the Border Patrol by manning control rooms, doing vehicle and helicopter maintenance, repairing roads and fences, constructing vehicle barriers and fences and spotting and reporting illegal entrants in entrance identification teams.
There are dozens of National Guard entrance identification teams along the Mexican border, including east and west of both Nogales and Sasabe and on the Tohono O'odham Nation.
The troops stand post on hilltops next to army-green tents and serve as extra eyes and ears for the Border Patrol.

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So there is no war on our border huh? US troops are being shot at by people who are crossing the US border then they just leave again. What kind of crap is that.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 02:43 pm
It's ****. No denying that. And unlike Iraq, it's a real threat and should be dealt with that way quickly and mercilessly. If it went down just like that.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 02:46 pm
Re: US Troops attacked on US border.
Baldimo wrote:
National Guard troops working at an observatory post near the Mexican border were forced to flee after being approached by a group of armed individuals, authorities said.


Well, I suppose such happens now and than at many borders. (One of the reasons, the border police is armed as well, btw.)

You misspelled "approached".
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Vinny Z
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:19 pm
Nobody shot anybody. It says so right in the article.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:23 pm
It's almost amusing how conservatives love war so much they salivate at the very thought of it...

If no shots take place, they will just invent them.
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Vinny Z
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:25 pm
Hey, e_brown, aren't you awful young to be posting here?
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:25 pm
The area in question is known as "not mexican valley" because the drug runners there are not mexicans.
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Vinny Z
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:27 pm
I meant ebrown_p. Sorry to misspell your username.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:27 pm
The Minutemen send groups of armed men down to the border, don't they?
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Baldimo
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:29 pm
ebrown_p wrote:
It's almost amusing how conservatives love war so much they salivate at the very thought of it...

If no shots take place, they will just invent them.


Read the article again. They crossed the border fired at the troops and then crossed back over again.


Vinny Z wrote:
Nobody shot anybody. It says so right in the article.


I didn't say they shot, I said they were shot at. Big difference.
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nimh
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:29 pm
Re: US Troops attacked on US border.
FOX NEWS: no shots were fired and no one suffered injuries.

BALDIMO: So there is no war on our border huh? US troops are being shot at

Baldimo - there to make up what Fox fails to.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:31 pm
Quote:

He said the troops withdrew safely, no shots were fired and no one suffered injuries.
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nimh
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:32 pm
Baldimo wrote:
Read the article again. They crossed the border fired at the troops and then crossed back over again.

It doesnt say anything like that in the entire article. Are you stoned?
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:33 pm
The nationality of these armed men is also unknown, you are jumping to conclusions that they are Mexicans (as if Mexicans are the only nationality that would own guns). They could just as well have been Americans.

It is possible that this whole thing could have been prevented with better gun control laws.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:35 pm
By the way, I just love these "EVERYONE SCREAM WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!!!" threads.
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LoneStarMadam
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:35 pm
Re: US Troops attacked on US border.
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Baldimo wrote:
National Guard troops working at an observatory post near the Mexican border were forced to flee after being approached by a group of armed individuals, authorities said.


Well, I suppose such happens now and than at many borders. (One of the reasons, the border police is armed as well, btw.)

You misspelled "approached".

The NG on the border are not armed, something the illegals are very well aware of, that was shouted from the rooftops by this admin when they announced that the NG would be deployed to the border.
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LoneStarMadam
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:36 pm
ebrown_p wrote:
The Minutemen send groups of armed men down to the border, don't they?

So what? They're licesnsed to carry.
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Vinny Z
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:37 pm
So a group of guys with guns walks up to a weekend warrior post in the dark. Next thing both groups boogie on out of Dodge in opposite directions. I don't think you're going to get Clint Eastwood to star in the tv movie.
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LoneStarMadam
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:37 pm
ebrown_p wrote:
The nationality of these armed men is also unknown, you are jumping to conclusions that they are Mexicans (as if Mexicans are the only nationality that would own guns). They could just as well have been Americans.

It is possible that this whole thing could have been prevented with better gun control laws.

HALLEJUAH!!!! You finally got it!! How many times has it been said here that not all that cross that border are mexicans? Rolling Eyes
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LoneStarMadam
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jan, 2007 03:38 pm
Vinny Z wrote:
So a group of guys with guns walks up to a weekend warrior post in the dark. Next thing both groups boogie on out of Dodge in opposite directions. I don't think you're going to get Clint Eastwood to star in the tv movie.

Not asking for CE, just asking that the BP be allowed to carry out their duty.
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