Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to murders of Mexican teenagers (F&F)(VIDEO)
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Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to
murders of Mexican teenagers
Published: 1:36 AM 10/01/2012
By Matthew Boyle
The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a
bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday
evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered
students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to
them across the Mexican border.
“On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked
themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college
students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a
version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website.
“Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the
Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire
on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a
screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape.
Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded
before the hit men finally fled.”
Citing a Mexican Army document it obtained and published, Univision
reported that “[t]hree of the high caliber weapons fired that night in
Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).”
That operation was Fast and Furious.
The “massacre,” as Univision described it, was not the only bombshell
the network unveiled in its Sunday evening report.
“Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported
firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during
Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites
related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre,” the
Univision report reads.
The network also uncovered another Fast and Furious weapons
“massacre.” On September 2, 2009, 18 young men were killed at “El
Aliviane, a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez,” according to the
report.
Univision found many of these victims through “access to the list of
serial numbers for weapons used in Fast and Furious” and the “list of
guns seized in Mexico,” according to English subtitles on the
Spanish-language video.
“After cross-referencing them both lists, it became clear that a least
a hundred of them were used in crimes of all kinds,” the subtitles
read. “We found 57 weapons that were not mentioned in [the U.S.]
Congress’ investigation.”
Though Univision tracked many more victims down, it said that “the
death toll that this free flow of weapons authorized by ATF had in
Mexico has not been tallied.”
Univision held nothing back in its broadcast, airing images and video
of bloodied, dead bodies. The network showed the faces of the dead and
walked viewers through how cartel operatives hunted their victims down
with the weapons President Barack Obama’s administration allowed straw
buyers to traffick to them.
One photo, for instance, showed pools of blood in the streets of a
Mexican town after a “massacre” committed by murderers armed with Fast
and Furious weapons. Video footage showed where some of the victims
were killed and how the cartels chased their helpless victims to their
deaths.
The Univision broadcast implicitly suggested that Americans have no
regard for the victims of violence American policy helps fuel — that
is, until one of those victims ends up being an American.
It wasn’t until U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s murder prompted
whistle-blowers to come forward to Congress to publicly voice concerns
about ]he program that the Obama administration stopped allowing
firearms to flow into Mexico.
One victim’s father, Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, told Univision he
thinks “Americans are not often moved by the pain of those outside
[their country].”
“But they are moved by the pain of their own,” Sicilia added.
“Well, turn around and watch the massacres.”
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http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/01/univision-report-connects-operation-fast-and-furious-scandal-to-murders-of-mexican-teenagers/2/
http://tinyurl.com/8pl5xoz
Univision says the Obama administration’s actions “inadvertently”
helped fuel violence and a war between the cartels.
“In Mexico, the timing of the operation coincided with an upsurge of
violence in the war among the country’s strongest cartels,” according
to Univision.
“In 2009, the northern Mexican states served as a battlefield for the
Sinaloa and Juarez drug trafficking organizations, and as expansion
territory for the increasingly powerful Zetas. According to documents
obtained by Univision News, from October of that year to the end of
2010, nearly 175 weapons from Operation Fast and Furious inadvertently
armed the various warring factions across northern Mexico.”
An English-subtitled translation of one expert’s comments indicated
that the weapons the Obama administration allowed to flow to the
cartels through Fast and Furious were “capable of not only penetrating
an armored vehicle but also a whole house from wall to wall.”
According to the Univision report, it wasn’t weak gun laws that made
Fast and Furious possible, as some liberal commentators have
suggested.
“If up to this point drug dealers could easily obtain and smuggle
guns, the United States government made it easier,” English subtitles
on one part of the report read.
“When Fast and Furious began in 2009, the ATF and Arizona prosecutors
told [gun] store owners to sell weapons without restrictions to
suspicious buyers.”
Univision also said that it was Phoenix ATF office leader Bill Newell
who ultimately concluded that “the only way to track the guns was to
wait for weapons to be recovered in crime scenes in Mexico.”
That charge, if true, would mean the Obama administration decided to
allow cartel operatives to kill and injure people with the weapons it
gave them, and to recover the guns only after criminals ditched them
at brutal — often deadly — crime scenes.
Univision also found additional details about other gunwalking
operations the Obama administration undertook.
“In Florida, the weapons from Operation Castaway ended up in the hands
of criminals in Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela, the lead informant
in the case told Univision News in a prison interview,” the network
reported. The informant Unvision interviewed was “Vietnam
veteran-turned-arms-trafficker” Hugh Crumpler.
“When the ATF stopped me, they told me the guns were going to
cartels,” Crumpler said. “The ATF knew before I knew and had been
following me for a considerable length of time. They could not have
followed me for two months like they said they did, and not know the
guns were going somewhere, and not want for that to be happening.”
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Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to
murders of Mexican teenagers
Published: 1:36 AM 10/01/2012
By Matthew Boyle
The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a
bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday
evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered
students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to
them across the Mexican border.
“On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked
themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college
students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a
version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website.
“Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the
Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire
on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a
screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape.
Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded
before the hit men finally fled.”
Citing a Mexican Army document it obtained and published, Univision
reported that “[t]hree of the high caliber weapons fired that night in
Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).”
That operation was Fast and Furious.
The “massacre,” as Univision described it, was not the only bombshell
the network unveiled in its Sunday evening report.
“Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported
firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during
Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites
related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre,” the
Univision report reads.
The network also uncovered another Fast and Furious weapons
“massacre.” On September 2, 2009, 18 young men were killed at “El
Aliviane, a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez,” according to the
report.
Univision found many of these victims through “access to the list of
serial numbers for weapons used in Fast and Furious” and the “list of
guns seized in Mexico,” according to English subtitles on the
Spanish-language video.
“After cross-referencing them both lists, it became clear that a least
a hundred of them were used in crimes of all kinds,” the subtitles
read. “We found 57 weapons that were not mentioned in [the U.S.]
Congress’ investigation.”
Though Univision tracked many more victims down, it said that “the
death toll that this free flow of weapons authorized by ATF had in
Mexico has not been tallied.”
Univision held nothing back in its broadcast, airing images and video
of bloodied, dead bodies. The network showed the faces of the dead and
walked viewers through how cartel operatives hunted their victims down
with the weapons President Barack Obama’s administration allowed straw
buyers to traffick to them.
One photo, for instance, showed pools of blood in the streets of a
Mexican town after a “massacre” committed by murderers armed with Fast
and Furious weapons. Video footage showed where some of the victims
were killed and how the cartels chased their helpless victims to their
deaths.
The Univision broadcast implicitly suggested that Americans have no
regard for the victims of violence American policy helps fuel — that
is, until one of those victims ends up being an American.
It wasn’t until U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s murder prompted
whistle-blowers to come forward to Congress to publicly voice concerns
about ]he program that the Obama administration stopped allowing
firearms to flow into Mexico.
One victim’s father, Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, told Univision he
thinks “Americans are not often moved by the pain of those outside
[their country].”
“But they are moved by the pain of their own,” Sicilia added.
“Well, turn around and watch the massacres.”
--------------------------
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/01/univision-report-connects-operation-fast-and-furious-scandal-to-murders-of-mexican-teenagers/2/
http://tinyurl.com/8pl5xoz
Univision says the Obama administration’s actions “inadvertently”
helped fuel violence and a war between the cartels.
“In Mexico, the timing of the operation coincided with an upsurge of
violence in the war among the country’s strongest cartels,” according
to Univision.
“In 2009, the northern Mexican states served as a battlefield for the
Sinaloa and Juarez drug trafficking organizations, and as expansion
territory for the increasingly powerful Zetas. According to documents
obtained by Univision News, from October of that year to the end of
2010, nearly 175 weapons from Operation Fast and Furious inadvertently
armed the various warring factions across northern Mexico.”
An English-subtitled translation of one expert’s comments indicated
that the weapons the Obama administration allowed to flow to the
cartels through Fast and Furious were “capable of not only penetrating
an armored vehicle but also a whole house from wall to wall.”
According to the Univision report, it wasn’t weak gun laws that made
Fast and Furious possible, as some liberal commentators have
suggested.
“If up to this point drug dealers could easily obtain and smuggle
guns, the United States government made it easier,” English subtitles
on one part of the report read.
“When Fast and Furious began in 2009, the ATF and Arizona prosecutors
told [gun] store owners to sell weapons without restrictions to
suspicious buyers.”
Univision also said that it was Phoenix ATF office leader Bill Newell
who ultimately concluded that “the only way to track the guns was to
wait for weapons to be recovered in crime scenes in Mexico.”
That charge, if true, would mean the Obama administration decided to
allow cartel operatives to kill and injure people with the weapons it
gave them, and to recover the guns only after criminals ditched them
at brutal — often deadly — crime scenes.
Univision also found additional details about other gunwalking
operations the Obama administration undertook.
“In Florida, the weapons from Operation Castaway ended up in the hands
of criminals in Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela, the lead informant
in the case told Univision News in a prison interview,” the network
reported. The informant Unvision interviewed was “Vietnam
veteran-turned-arms-trafficker” Hugh Crumpler.
“When the ATF stopped me, they told me the guns were going to
cartels,” Crumpler said. “The ATF knew before I knew and had been
following me for a considerable length of time. They could not have
followed me for two months like they said they did, and not know the
guns were going somewhere, and not want for that to be happening.”
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