Pentagon announces the SEALs are secretly going after El Chapo of the Sinaloa Cartel

[Bigfoot]

That's how you do it, send in the SEALs secret....ly....... oops.

Maybe they aren't really after their gun buyers but just want to appear so?

Report: Navy SEALs to Hunt Cartel Kingpin Like Bin Laden

Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is arguably the world’s most wanted criminal, supplanting Osama bin Laden after the terrorist mastermind’s death during a Navy SEAL raid in May 2011. Now the Pentagon reportedly has a plan to send the SEALs after El Chapo too. There are lots of reasons why the report may be off. Chief among them: The Mexicans hate U.S. troops on their soil even more than the Pakistanis do.

According to anonymous Mexican and U.S. military sources cited by Proceso magazine (translated from Spanish), the plan involves sending Navy SEALs by helicopter after the Sinaloa Cartel kingpin, who is rumored to be hiding in the mountains of the western Mexican states of Sinaloa and Durango. The SEALs would be divided into two teams — one would land and attack, and the other would stay airborne — assisted by three unmanned drones packing missiles.

After locating El Chapo, the SEALs would “eliminate any of Chapo’s security on the spot … as they did with the ‘Bin Laden’ operation,” according to Proceso. If El Chapo is killed, the SEALs would take the kingpin’s body with them. The plan is reported to have been ordered by the Pentagon and Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which oversees military operations in North America. If enacted, U.S. officials would observe from the White House and NORTHCOM headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. The plan is also reported to be U.S.-only, excluding the Mexican military.

It’s a remarkably detailed look at the alleged plan. But there are also several problems, some seemingly insurmountable. And there are questions over whether it’d even work.

According to Proceso, outgoing President Felipe Calderón was reportedly keen to the idea, but faced objections from the Mexican army and navy. The Mexican navy — which includes Mexico’s marines — is one of the main strike forces against the cartels. An American strike would also blatantly violate Mexican law, which prohibits foreign military and law enforcement agencies from operating on Mexican soil, except under tightly controlled conditions and never armed.

Much more: Report: Navy SEALs to Hunt Cartel Kingpin Like Bin Laden | Danger Room | Wired.com

Didn't both countries announce hands-off policies towards the Cartels recently? The Mexicans tactically and the US told Border Patrol and Homeland Security officers instead of shooting back to hide and call 911.

I call shenanigans.

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[blk04specv]

How much longer until America is housing the most wanted criminal in the world and what will that mean for our country?

 

[boxer13]

El Chapo is a bad dude. Should be brought to justice but it won't really change a damn thing because dozens more are willing to take his place and that's just within the Sinaloa cartel.

That doesn't even begin to make a dent in their operations nor will it affect the Gulf cartel, Los Zetas, Tijuana or Juarez cartels.

They may have destroyed Medellin cartel but that was a long time ago and the game done changed.

 

[Swedish K]

So if we send in seals will holder be in charge of tracking their issue weapons?

 

[Cuthbert Allgood]

the war on drugs is a joke. it hasn't done anything to curb the flow of narcotics into this country. even if the story had some truth to it, as somebody has already mentioned, somebody else will take el chapo's place.

 

[pokerace]

and how is this a secret.

 

[Sincere]

Want to beat the cartels?

End prohibition.

Don't like that idea? Don't worry about it then, just keep sipping your whiskey, smoking your cigarettes, popping those Vicodin and Xanax and forget I said anything.

 

[iusmc2002]

Want to beat the cartels?

End prohibition.

Don't like that idea? Don't worry about it then, just keep sipping your whiskey, smoking your cigarettes, popping those Vicodin and Xanax and forget I said anything.

Wish I could "Like" this post one thousand times because it's the undeniable truth

 

[elsie]

Sounds like a Tom Clancy novel.


elsie

 

[Kevatc]

I have a hard time taking this article seriously when in the first paragraph this is said: "There are lots of reasons why the report may be off."

 

[Swedish K]

Sounds like a Tom Clancy novel.


elsie

Ever read Rising Phoenix by Kyle Mills? it poses one way to stop the drug trade

 

[hawmanai]

We need to label the Cartels as Terrorist Organizations and go after them like that.

 

[Sincere]

We need to label the Cartels as Terrorist Organizations and go after them like that.

Yeah, because the "War on Terror" is going much better than the "War on Drugs".

 

[rur862]

We need to label the Cartels as Terrorist Organizations and go after them like that.

What would that change?

It wouldn't stop the incentive to produce, transport, and sell drugs in the U.S. for a profit.

Do you think that the thugs that go after the cartel leaders are any less brutal than the ones that murder "terrorists"?

 

[mjbskwim]

the war on drugs is a joke. it hasn't done anything to curb the flow of narcotics into this country. even if the story had some truth to it, as somebody has already mentioned, somebody else will take el chapo's place.

There is no real war on drugs.There is way too much money made by both sides for that.
Smoke and mirrors

As far as this being "secret",it wouldn't matter if you told the cartel if the seals really wanted the guy.Somehow they would get him
If somebody "really wanted" him.And that would be because he crossed the line some how. Killed the wrong person,didn't pay the right ones,bad product or all those other things bad dealers do.

Or it is a distraction to make him move.
I don't have to read Tom's books to figure this out.

I watched a stupid movie on this the other night called "Line". Basically showing if the "line" (pipeline/flow) is interrupted, someone is going down.
Yes the American spooks were behind the hits.
Trust me it wasn't worth watching,just someones view of what's really happening on the border

 

[deen_ad]

So, are our Seals operating in a Mexico without the Mexican governments knowledge like Fast & Furious?

Or does the Mexican government know about it, in which case so do the cartels!!

 

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