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.

Frank Gaffney: Is Petraeus Going Native?

It seems to be a daily occurrence that we learn our National Security is threatened in some way by Obama or someone from his Administration. Our latest is John Brennan who he is the Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. With people like Brennan in the Obama Administration, terrorist organizations seem to have a supporter who is trying to justify their existence. Hard to believe someone like this is an advisor to the President. If you are judged by the people you keep around you, then Obama's outreach to terrorist organizations fits perfectly with the Brennan or Obama agenda.

"White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan speaks to reporters in the White House Jan. 7. (AP Photo)


The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies.

During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of "political, economic and social forces," but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in "religious terms."

He repeated the administration argument that the enemy is not "terrorism," because terrorism is a "tactic," and not terror, because terror is a "state of mind" -- though Brennan's title, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, includes the word "terrorism" in it. But then Brennan said that the word "jihad" should not be applied either.

"Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said.

The technical, broadest definition of jihad is a "struggle" in the name of Islam and the term does not connote "holy war" for all Muslims. However, jihad frequently connotes images of military combat or warfare, and some of the world's most wanted terrorists including Usama bin Laden commonly use the word to call for war against the West.

Finding out where Brennan stands as the Counterterrorism Advisor on Homeland Security to Obama sheds light on how far out of touch this Administration is with the American people who view these terrorists organizations as terrorists not some middle of the road religious organization. These people are fanatics that want to destroy the infidels of the West in the name of Allah which includes the vast majority of Americans in this country.

Once again we go back to the upbringing of Obama who in early years was schooled in a Catholic school in Indonesia. Since he was enrolled in school as a Muslim, he took lessons in Islam during the day and attended a mosque with his stepfather. When his mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents, he was tutored by Franklin Marshall Davis, a known Communist who arranged his entry into Chicago politics through friends of his. Obama never has been mainstream in his formative years and it shows in his ideology and outreach to enemies of the United States. His contempt for most of his fellow countrymen (whites) is duly noted along with his contempt for Great Britain and Israel.

This outreach to terrorists organizations run by Islamic radicals, is mind boggling and frankly scary. What next? Invite them to live in the United States and mainstream them into American life?

The notion that Hezbollah can be weaned from its client relationship with Tehran – either on the basis of appeals to its nationalist ardor or because of Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan’s stated willingness to engage with its so-called “moderate elements” – is unsubstantiated by any material facts.

You don't have to be a genius to know that Hezbollah is NOT moderate in any way shape or form but yet we have the advisor to the President advocating willingness to engage with terrorists. What is going on? These people want to kill us and change the way of life in America to that of a Muslim Nation and a National Security advisor in this Administration thinks there are moderates in Hezbollah?

Gaffney's final analysis of this leaked document sums up what has been happening with our military leaders who rose through the ranks thanks to Bill Clinton. Part of it is due to the fact that a lot of our young military leaders retired or resigned during the Clinton years and Clinton generals have rose up to positions of power. Whatever it is, we sure do miss Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Richard Myers, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and General Tommy Franks. Cannot imagine any of them putting up with this nonsense out of CENTCOM.

If there is any glimmer of good news in Mark Perry’s portrayal of the leaked Red Team analysis it is that, even though “There is a lot of thinking going on in the military and particularly among intelligence officers in Tampa [the site of CENTCOM headquarters] about these groups,” according to an unnamed senior CENTCOM officer familiar with the report, “senior military leaders are [not] actively lobbying Barack Obama's administration to forge an opening to the two organizations. ‘That's probably not in the cards just yet,’ he said.”

The bad news is that, given the determination of the Obama administration to isolate and undermine Israel, it is not clear that much “active lobbying” on the part of Central Command will be necessary to egg it on. But the political cover provided by General Petraeus, or at least by his CENTCOM staff, will surely come in handy for Team Obama when the chickens of the war that such policies will inevitably encourage come home to roost.

There used to be a campaign commercial "Do you feel safer today?" The answer is a resounding NO! When President Bush was in office along with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, they took a lot of heat from the news media and the American people after 9/11 when the President declared War on Terror and named the Axis of Evil, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Today only one of those, Iraq, is not a threat because we took out Saddam before something could happen to him and his lunatic sons took over Iraq. Did we feel safer when President Bush was in office -- ABSOLUTELY!

President Bush strengthened our ties with Israel who is our closest ally (or was before Obama) and is our eyes and ears in the Middle East. Israel has suffered greatly at the hands of the terrorist and now Obama and his people seem willing to toss Israel to the thugs of the Middle East who run the terrorist organizations.

Hope this Country has learned a lesson about electing someone as President with zero experience, no background in American culture, and whose best friends in Chicago were domestic terrorists and black liberation supporters. That was a prescription for disaster which the mainstream media should have reported but chose to hide the ties. The United States is paying for that blantant bias news reporting making Obama out to be a savior of the Country when Obama was far from that. Obama is a radical leftist any way you want to portray him who wants to destroy out way of life.

This article from Frank Gaffney, paints a portrait of an Administration that should scare all freedom loving Americans.

Is Petraeus Going Native?
Wednesday, 30 Jun 2010 10:54 PM Article Font Size
By: Frank Gaffney


Hamas Diplomats
It was bad enough when, two months ago, word got around that U.S. Central Command’s commanding general, David Petraeus, had embraced the meme that Americans were being killed in his theater of operations because Israel had refused to make peace with its Palestinian enemies.

Now comes word that elements within his command – including many of its “senior officers” and “intelligence personnel” – believe the United States should abandon its longstanding policy of “isolating and marginalizing” Hamas and Hezbollah.

According to an article entitled, “Red Team: CENTCOM thinks outside the box on Hamas and Hezbollah” by Mark Perry published today online by Foreign Policy magazine, a Red Team at Central Command is recommending “a mix of strategies that would integrate the two organizations into their respective political mainstreams.” The justification for treating these designated terrorist organizations as though they were part of the solution is to be found in the following, astounding remarks by unidentified CENTCOM officers:

“Putting Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida in the same sentence, as if they are all the same, is just stupid,” [one] said. “I don't know any intelligence officer at CENTCOM who buys that." Another mid-level SOCOM [Special Operations Command] officer echoed these views: “As the U.S. strategy in the war on terrorism evolves, military planners have come to realize that they are all motivated by different factors, and we need to address this if we are going to effectively prosecute a successful campaign in the Middle East.”

The contention that Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida are “motivated by different factors” is pure Brotherhood taqqiya – dissembling for the faith. Its embrace by anyone, let alone by intelligence personnel and senior military officers, constitutes an appalling dereliction of the “professional duty to know” the facts.

The reality is that all these groups absolutely, positively are the same in one respect, at least: They all share a commitment to the theo-political-legal-military program authoritative Islam calls Shariah.

As adherents to Shariah, they are all pursuing the same goal: the global triumph of Shariah under a theocratic Caliphate. Their tactics may differ from time to time, depending on circumstance. But what is really “stupid” is the notion that such differences or even structural differences actually preclude these groups and many others promoting Shariah (notably, the Taliban) from being kindred spirits – and unalterably our enemies.

Further evidence of the defective nature of the CENTCOM Red Team analysis can be found in the emphasis it reportedly places on “a quote from Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, stating that if Lebanon and Iran's interests ever conflicted, his organization would favor Lebanese interests.” According to Perry, the Red Team concluded that “Hezbollah's activities increasingly reflect the movement's needs and aspirations in Lebanon, as opposed to the interests of its Iranian backers.”

The notion that Hezbollah can be weaned from its client relationship with Tehran – either on the basis of appeals to its nationalist ardor or because of Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan’s stated willingness to engage with its so-called “moderate elements” – is unsubstantiated by any material facts. Random quotes, particularly those cited out of context, are of course not at all the same thing as an established pattern of behavior on Hezbollah’s part that demonstrates the proxy’s actual independence from its Iranian masters. No such pattern can be discerned. The same dependency on Iran is operating with Hamas, as well, to say nothing of Syria.

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Welcome to Washington, Prime Minister Netanyahu.

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