Iran's alleged Mexican hitman was US drugs informant

[lovuian]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/12/iran-mexico-drug-informant-hitman

The Iranian plot the US government says aimed to murder Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington allegedly fell down because a member of the Mexican Zeta drug cartel hired to carry out the job for $1.5m was actually a US informant.

[marmar]

1. Something reeks.

nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Either the guardian is late...

That was in the criminal complaint. You think the cartels are not somewhat penetrated?

[lovuian]

3. there better be more evidence than just a US drug informant's

testimony

especially if they submit this to the UN

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. It was taped

As in record, as in yup, they got voices.

[Rex]

4. Ruh roh

CIA, DEA or FBI?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. DEA but I am sure you know the cartels are saints

[Rex]

8. Actually I wonder how much of the DEA is compromised

by the Big Three drug cartels in Mexico? Remember, we gave them hundreds of assault weapons...free of charge. Was that a mistake? Granted that was the ATF...but still, I wouldn't be surprised to find out most of the departments are compromised by the very cartels they are supposedly fighting.

Think CIA...heroin...Vietnam...and Air America.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I think something more sophisticated happened here

A probe to flush out a us asset.

Many of the "friends" of this guy are currently missing a head, literally.

[Rex]

11. Wow.

Sounds like the spy game is a deadly as ever.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Yup...

The cartels are paramilitaries...but to hire one you need to flush them spies from the other side.

[bobthedrummer]

15. The corrupt fictional DEA portrayed in "Leon the Professional" is mild compared to the folks that

"routinely" get away with things like USC Title 18 Section 242 Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law-I know this through personal experiences trying to bring an operative (murderer and human trafficker) to justice here in The United States of America. This operative is alive and in some kind of "protective" program sponsored by the DEA according to my local sheriff.

RECALL SCOTT WALKER!

[blm]

6. IranContra..... IranContra.... IranContra

Iran effing Contra

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. I gotta ask

Which of the cartels do we want to defeat a pretty right wing neocon government?

[demosincebirth]

13. They're a little slow getting their news. nt

[bobthedrummer]

14. Another active GD thread you might want to check out lovuian, and anyone else "puzzled" by this bust

Hmmm...Iran, Central American drug cartels, Saudis, October-it reminds me of some "hidden histories" (started 10-12-11)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2104315

RECALL SCOTT WALKER!

[UTUSN]

16. The Wingnuts/ Baggers/ Minutemen loved the original story as the MISSING LINK

All this time they have frothed over the SOUTHERN border as a security threat, using 9-11 as the cover for their concern over security.

They thought this was the missing link that would have justified all of their frothing. The drug cartels have their own parochial wars as their total interest.