Drug Catapult Discovered On Mexico Border

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Night video by National Guard shows smugglers flinging packages into U.S.


NACO, Ariz. - Drug smugglers used a catapult to fire contraband over the border between Mexico and Arizona, authorities said Wednesday.

National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system on Friday evening saw several people using the device beside a border fence near the town of Naco, and Border Patrol agents contacted Mexican authorities, NBC station KVOA of Tucson reported, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Mexican authorities disrupted the operation, but the alleged smugglers fled the scene in a Humvee, leaving the catapult behind - along with 45 pounds of marijuana and an SUV.

Night-vision video taken by the National Guard and supplied by KVOA shows several men preparing the catapult and launching packages before fleeing.

Still images taken at the scene shows soldiers testing the catapult, which was powered with elastic and was brought in mounted on a trailer. It's not clear from the video whether they are Mexican or U.S. troops.

"I have not seen anything like that in my time before as a Border Patrol agent ... although we are trained to handle any kind of a threat that comes over that border," Tucson sector Border Patrol spokesman David Jimarez told Reuters.

U.S. authorities said the dismantling of the operation was an example of close cooperation between American and Mexican agencies.

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.Naco is in Cochise County, about 80 miles southeast of Tucson.

The Mexican government declared war against drug smugglers in 2006, and the resulting conflict has left more than 30,000 people dead.

The crackdown has pushed smugglers into ever-more daring and ingenious attempts to move drugs into the United States.

One technique involves the use of specially designed trucks with ramps built in the back and front. These trucks pull up next to the barbed-wire border fence and lower one of the ramps over to the U.S. side, while the other ramp slides down the back of the vehicle. Smugglers in SUVs loaded with drugs then drive across these mobile truck-bridges into Arizona without ever touching the fence.

Ultralight planes have been used by daring pilots to fly over the fence to drop drug loads on the U.S. side.

Video: Drug smugglers move underground (on this page)
And huge tunnel systems have been uncovered in the past few months connecting San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial area with Tijuana, Mexico, producing some of the largest marijuana seizures ever in the United States.

Video: Mexico's drug war weapons mostly from U.S. (on this page)
The drug war has another connection to the U.S.: Huge amounts of weapons are being bought in border states and shipping to drug cartels, American and Mexican officials say.

 

Let's give credit where credit is due. These drug cartels, just like the Viet Cong, they know the best way to kick America's ass is low tech warfare.

These corrupt DEA pigs want to declare a "War On Drugs", well, the war has just begun. The cartels haven't even started fighting yet.

Just think about the hundreds of millions of dollars fed into the drug industry annually. Don't you think they could buy some armed helicopters and planes?? I think they could afford a few tanks, assault weapons, and sophisticated tech to help balance things out a bit.

No matter what they do though, no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many lives are lost, the DEA and the CIA will still continue to import hundreds of tons of cocaine and heroin into America to destroy, kill, and incarcerate our people, while the cops look like heroes for shadowboxing themselves, and pocketing our tax dollars.

We know who the corrupt hypocrites really are!!! We ought to, we're paying their salaries out of our pockets, just to have them betray our nation.