Grenade and Rocket Launcher Found Near Rio Grande

Fronton, Texas, is about halfway between Laredo (due south of San Antonio) and Brownsville which sits close to the Gulf of Mexico.  With finding this type of weaponry, are we now dealing with terrorists on our Texas southern border as well as the drug cartels?  This is proof that Hezbollah operates from San Diego to the Gulf of Mexico today.  This find in Fronton shows there are terrorists who have crossed the border with Mexico but in this case the agents were able to find the launchers, explosives, and assault rifles before they could be used.  As a former agent explains, Hezbollah uses the drug cartels as their cover is partnering with the cartels:

But recently, operatives with the group have been using the ongoing violence in the local drug trade to blend in with Muslim communities along the Mexico border, according to the unnamed official. 

“They have had clandestine training in how to live in foreign hostile territories,” the agent said.
Hezbollah is reportedly partnering with local drug organizations for cash and protection in exchange for firearms and explosives training, according to the former official, who cited two safe houses in Tijuana and Durango where operatives were apparently living.

Did not realize that there were Muslim communities along the border which should be sending off all kinds of warning bells.  In 2009, the Washington Times reported on the fact that Hezbollah was operating on the southern border using the routes of the drug cartels and people smuggling to gain access to the United States. It has only escalated since 2009, with car bombings now happening in Juarez, Mexico, across from El Paso.  With the weaponry found in the Fronton area southeast of Laredo, looks like Hezbollah is now along the full border with Mexico.

This MSNBC video from May of 2007 is chilling about how the Iranian backed Hezbollah established a beachhead in a remote area Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina:

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The video was shot four years ago but today authorities are finding evidence Hezbollah are moving north with the type of violence that has been escalating along the Texas/Mexican border.  Some of the scenes today remind you of what we have seen in Israel and other Arab countries from the Hezbollah .  With this find, the nervousness along the border by residents has to have increased dramatically.  What do they get from the President about border security during his trip to El Paso -- attacks against Republicans for wanting border security:

President Obama says Republicans will "never be satisfied" by the amount of border protection he has ordered. 

"Even though we've answered these concerns, I've got to say I suspect there's still some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time. You know, they said 'we needed to triple the border patrol.' Well, now they're going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol, or they'll want a higher fence. Maybe they'll need a moat. Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat. They'll never be satisfied. I understand. That's politics. But the truth is the measures we put in place are getting results," President Obama said in El Paso, Texas today.

The truth about Obama sending ground troops to the border from Congress Franks in May 2010 which calls the troops 'boots on the desk'




When you learn that now 80% of illegals coming across the border back in May of 2010 had criminal records, it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.  How much worse is it today?  From all the reports of the Hezbollah joining with the drug cartels and what they have been finding, we would say much worse.

What does the Obama Administration do to stop the violence?  They set up a sting operation, Operation Fast and Furious, to catch gun dealers by purchasing guns and selling them to the cartels to put more guns in the possession of the cartels all in the name of gun control.  Why haven't more heads rolled?  Head of ATF was reassigned to another Government job so we are still paying his salary.

So, a Grenade and Rocket Launcher Found Near Rio Grande
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From Fronton, Texas:

U. S. Border Patrol agents seized six assault rifles, one rocket launcher, a grenade launcher, and three packages of what appeared to be C-4 explosives Tuesday near the Rio Grande.

Agents patrolling the river near Fronton spotted a black bag in the brush. Inside, agents found the guns, rocket launcher, grenade launcher and explosives, along with a lower receiver for an assault rifle and 20 ammunition magazines. 

Too bad the Obama Administration can't blame law abiding gun shop owners in the United States for this one. Why? Because you cannot buy rocket and grenade launchers at their stores.
But don't worry, the border is as secure and as safe as ever.

“Despite a lot of breathless reports that have tagged places like El Paso as dangerous, violent crime in southwest border counties has dropped by a third. El Paso and other cities and towns along this border are consistently among the safest in the nation.” –President Obama May 10, 2011

In July, I reported that Hezbollah, the most extensive terrorist organization in the world, is operating with and providing training to drug cartel members in Mexico, specifically along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Hezbollah is a very sophisticated terrorist group, with activity beyond criminal. Intelligence shows the group started pushing its terrorism initiative into South America a decade ago but upped its efforts in 2005, a new approach that is a threat to the United States. Testimony showed Hezbollah is strategically positioning itself in order to possibly launch a response to an Iranian attack either from the U.S. or Israel on their nuclear program. Intelligence cited during the hearing also shows the group is interested in obtaining weapons of mass destruction, which should be taken seriously since the group has published entire books about how to build and use WMDs and terrorist operations are justified by Hezbollah’s belief in Islam’s ongoing struggle with the West through violent jihad.

Hezbollah has also been supplying explosives training to Mexican drug cartels operating along the U.S.-Mexico border, and tunnels used in the area are near replicas of weapons-smuggling tunnels built by Hezbollah and used in Lebanon. Since 2006, violence in Mexico has rapidly escaladed and cartels have become more ruthless. In addition, Mexican cartels are serving as source of financing and easy entrance for the organization into the United States.

“Hezbollah members have used the porous U.S.-Mexico border as an entrance to the United States,” Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council Ilan Berman said. Farah agreed, saying that some gang members, who entered the U.S. through the southern border with Mexico, have been arrested in the U.S. proudly displaying Farsi tattoos. He also said these groups together have access to hundreds of millions of dollars and that money funneled back to the Middle East is used to purchase weapons for attacks on Israel.

There are three main ways Mexican cartels can get their hands on rocket and grenade launchers:

-If the U.S. State Department were to sell those weapons to the Mexican government, then dissenters of the Mexican military (who make up the majority of cartel members) take the weapons with them when they leave

-Mexican cartels buy them on the black market

-Mexican cartels work with groups like Hezbollah to obtain those weapons, cartels in Mexico grant easy access into the United States to Hezbollah in return, Hezbollah supplies them with weapons

So the question is, who do the weapons found in Fronton belong to? They may not be the property of cartels at all, but the property of terrorists operating along a 2,000 mile long porous border. 

Final thought: Were the assault rifles found part of Operation Fast and Furious? Given to cartels through ATF and Obama Justice Department incompetence? 

Source:  Town Hall

We need increased security with boots on the ground along the Mexican border not the boots in the office Obama sent.  Why doesn't Obama want to secure our southern border?  It is impossible in some areas of the border to erect a border fence with the Border Patrol outposts overseeing the border.  First we don't have the agents to man those outposts which in El Paso look to be every several hundred yards and secondly there is no way to erect a border fence in the middle of a reservoir over 200' deep.  The border doesn't always follow the Rio Grande precisely as we have mentioned before as it snakes in and out of both countries.  That means we need actual ground troops on the border along with all the surveillance equipment.

Texas Governor Perry because of the escalating violence has sent resources to the border from the Texas Department of Public Safety including helicopters equipped with night vision to patrol the border at night.  Texas is now forced to defend their border with Mexico to protect its citizens when border security is the responsibility of the Federal Government.  With this new find, the stakes just went up.  Texas has billed the Federal Government for their costs including housing lawbreaking illegals in the county jails.  What are the chances of Obama's Administration paying Texas?  We would predict zero, zip, nada.

While Obama campaigns, fundraises, celebrates his birthday with a blowout bash for a fundraiser, and goes on vacations, Hezbollah is becoming stronger by the day on the southern border with Mexico and his answer is to ignore the problem which seems to be one thing he is good at -- ignoring problems.