Well, I guess I'm finally going to have to pick a news source on this story. It is a difficult one because it is just so hard to put one's arms around members of our military allegedly being part of drug cartel activity.
Up, down, over and down south on the Colorado Springs Gazette and the Colorado Springs Independent; the coverage on this one has been poor. Everyone lacking in details, including TV and radio outlets.
'Opposing Views' has a very liberal bent in its avatar community which doesn't aid the dynamic of this conservative bent forum to have a measure of positive interaction. We have quite a few liberals who frequent SandBox, but they are rarely what would normally be called extremists.
With that said, there is often excellent reporting and blogging that comes off 'Opposing Views'.
On the 27th of March, they did the best job I've seen yet on this story. At best, the interaction between hubs, if dialogue gets started, will be interesting.
Zach Lisabeth:
"The Mexican drug war continues to rage south of the border, and it's drawing in some unlikely participants.
Two U.S. Army soldiers were among three American men busted this week in a drug trafficking sting that targeted one of Mexico's most violent and notorious cartels - the Zetas.
Kevin Corley, 29 (left in photo), and Samuel Walker, 28 (right in photo), both of Colorado Springs, Colorado, were arrested by federal Drug Enforcement agents after a firefight that resulted in the fatal shooting of a third American, Jerome Corley. Jerome and Kevin Corley were cousins.
According to the Daily News, a DEA agent shot Jerome Corley on Saturday in Laredo, Texas, where he was working alongside Kevin Corley and Samuel Walker as the Zetas' hired killers.
Kevin Corley previously served in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army and was discharged on March 13, according to a Pentagon spokeswoman. Walker was an active-duty sergeant stationed at Fort Carson in Denver, Colorado.
As incongruous as the employment arrangement sounds, the Zetas are no strangers to military personnel.
Their criminal syndicate was founded by a group of elite Mexican troops that deserted to work on behalf of a Gulf cartel based just south of the Texas border.
Soon after the desertion, the Zetas left the Gulf cartel to begin their own operation that has been classified as well-armed and extremely violent. In the past few years, the Zetas cartel has been responsible for drug trafficking, kidnapping and extortion, according to the Daily News.
The DEA began the sting operation that eventually brought down Walker and the Corleys in January of 2011. Around that time, two men in South Carolina revealed to undercover agents posing as Zetas that Kevin Corley would be able to procure for them illegal automatic weapons for a price...."
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