This is disconcerting:
A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona's border with Mexico.According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state's West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The site is manned by National Guardsmen. Those guardsmen were forced to retreat.
The Border Patrol will not say whether shots were fired. However, no Guardsmen were injured in the incident.
The Border Patrol says the incident occurred somewhere along the 120 mile section of the border between Nogales and Lukeville. The area is known as a drug corridor. Last year, 124-thousand pounds of illegal drugs were confiscated in this area.
The Border patrol says the attackers quickly retreated back into Mexico.
Military authorities don't know if it was a diversion or a probe. That the Guard fell back is not heartening.
Videos at the link.
(Via Drudge)
Posted by floridacracker at January 5, 2007 03:08 PMYa know, once upon a time ago this might have been misconstrued as an invasion of soverign territory by a foreign power. Said miscreants, whether part of the foreign goverment or citizens there of, would have been pursued back to their rat holes and been either captured or killed.
Thanks to the PC'ism in this country I fear that nothing will occur as a result of this invasion and will further embolden those that commited it.
Not that anything is being done now to discourage the illegal aliens crossing the border now by Fedco.
This is hardly the first time this has happened. There've been some instances where uniformed Mexican military have crossed with HMMWVs, exchanges of gunfire - including crew-served weapons, and depending on how you choose to see it, a non-stop series of human-wave assaults.
This particular incident deserves a lot of follow-on and if the senators from Arizona don't kick this up to the top and make it the full federal issue that it is, I hope their constituents hammer them for it.
Posted by: tfhr at January 5, 2007 09:33 PMI hate to be picky, but if you retreat, you haven't been overrun. Also, retreating in the face of unknown odds and support is tactically sound. He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. Theoretically, anyway.
Posted by: Chris at January 6, 2007 09:07 AM