Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Pentagon Mission: catch "El Chapo" ... or kill it

Military sources in Mexico and the United States confirmed to process the existence of a plan to catch "or run" El Chapo Guzman, prepared by the Pentagon and the Mexican government proposed and accepted in principle by President Calderon. Virtually copy of the plan that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, the plan would be carried out exclusively by members of the Navy of the United States, without any intervention by military or police elements Mexicans. Only outright rejection of the high command of the Mexican military has stopped ... But the Pentagon will raise with the hope that the next government will accept imminent.

Given how difficult it has been to catch Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, the U.S. government has prepared a plan to capture the drug lord, the best known leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, in an operation similar to the one carried out in Pakistan last year to give Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda.



Military sources in Mexico and the United States confirms the existence of the plan, which was drawn up by the Pentagon several months ago and is now being held because it is designed to be run only by Americans, an idea that is not seen with pleasure by their Mexican counterparts. The plan was presented to even and Felipe Calderon, who promoted it among the armed forces. And although there was a sharp rejection from the Army and Navy of Mexico, Washington has not thrown away and propose it to the next president.

The plan exists from an order of the Department of Defense and the Northern Command has it considered a priority mission said a senior source in the Mexican Army by mutual agreement remains anonymous. The Pentagon claims due to the constant "failed attempts" of the Mexican government to arrest Guzman Loera since he escaped from maximum security prison in Puente Grande, Jalisco, in January 2001, during the presidency of Vicente Fox

El Chapo has escaped at least six times to stop mounted fences, military source confirmed. The most recent occurred last February in coastal mansion in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, one day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was on an official visit at the spa.

Accurate to capture the capo is provided by U.S. agencies, mainly in charge of the fight against drugs, the DEA, so that each "failed attempt" the Mexican government has irritated Washington. For Mexico the eventual U.S. military intervention in Mexico to take over the arrest of Chapo is "very risky", because in addition to a clear violation of the Constitution would cause all kinds of problems, the military official said.

The proposed operation is detailed in the Safety Plan to Support Mexico, designed by military strategists Special Forces Department of Defense United States, the Pentagon. The execution of the operation would be in charge of the main U.S. special forces, Navy SEALs (an acronym of the words is, air, land), formed by Navy commandos trained for covert actions in enemy territory by sea, air or earth.

The operation would be a copy of the Pentagon secretly executed in Pakistan to "capture or kill" bin Laden, who was finally killed in his hideout in May 2011. Special Forces helicopters reached the Muslim leader's bunker on the outskirts of Islamabad, near the Pakistani Military Academy. From that experience Pentagon controls Calderon explained the proposal to stop the Chapo, in what is defined as an operation "simple, quick and surgical".

In the mountains of Sinaloa, where Guzman Loera in and out at will, capturing three teams require special seals with the support of three digital high-tech aircraft and remotely operated armed with missiles, according to the plan. Special Forces would move by Sinaloa and Durango in helicopter gunships. At the target act two teams on the ground and another would stay in the air, backed by drones, to prevent any retaliation by the criminal group.

In 10 or 15 minutes the two assault teams to target and catch him, according to the operational proposal, should it find eliminate resistance in the act, like all his guard. As with the mastermind of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001, if the target would run to pick up the corpse.

The operation against El Chapo would be observed and directed "in real time" from the headquarters of the Pentagon's Northern Command and even from the offices of the National Security Council in the White House. In the operation against bin Laden, President Barack Obama went step by step from the White House the work of seals, although in the case of Mexico Pentagon officials would be responsible for monitoring the operation.

In the Mexican military plan does not fit, or the Army or the Navy. Mexican soldiers enter only to present the results. According to the military command consulted Process is clear that the United States has the capacity to capture Chapo in Mexico, but Mexican participation to simulate the Americans would have to dress in uniforms of any national corporation such as the Federal Police.


For the Northern Command, created in 2002 by the Pentagon after the attacks of Al Qaeda in order to carry out operations "sensitive" to "the security of Canada, United States and Mexico" capture Chapo is considered a mission. Washington equates to Mexican drug cartels to terrorists and therefore considers a threat to its national security. Consequently, the Northern Command assumed its obligation to act against drug traffickers, the commander added. 

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