Dead for Tax Reasons: Obviously he cartels paid them more than the US for potection

They also should check to see if they vehicle is armored or not. Kind of hard to hide an attempted assassination when you didn't kill anyone.

The bullet-proofed embassy SUV was chased under fire and struck by 152 bullets, 40 percent of them pumped into the driver and passenger-side windows after the vehicle had come to a stop.

The CIA officers didn't receive life-threatening wounds and the navy officer was unharmed.

That's.....kind of impressive.

Captain Headline-Fail to the rescue!

thecpt: ChipNASA: Inn befoer: FALLOW>?!?!?!?

What is the headline talking about? I couldn't fallow it.

Not really my field...

That's right, you are supposed to collect the bribe FIRST

schief2: The bullet-proofed embassy SUV was chased under fire and struck by 152 bullets, 40 percent of them pumped into the driver and passenger-side windows after the vehicle had come to a stop.

The CIA officers didn't receive life-threatening wounds and the navy officer was unharmed.

That's.....kind of impressive.

No kidding. Also:

"Mexican criminals who think of messing with U.S. agents..." Messing? Is that a technical term?

schief2: The bullet-proofed embassy SUV was chased under fire and struck by 152 bullets, 40 percent of them pumped into the driver and passenger-side windows after the vehicle had come to a stop.

The CIA officers didn't receive life-threatening wounds and the navy officer was unharmed.

That's.....kind of impressive.

I remember seeing something on TV about how a successful assassin had penetrated a heavily armored vehicle easily using a relatively small charge of C4 on a bicycle...

EEE |
EEE | -------------->>>> Direction of blast
EEE |

The E's are the explosive and the pipe symbol is a brass or copper plate... can't remember... anyway, when the explosive went boom, it shot the plate in the direction of the vehicle and because the force and heat of the explosion was soo high, the plate reformed into a conical shape and became molten... passed right through the car and out the other side like it wasn't there. Shocking and scary if you think about it... most criminals have no problem getting C4, HMX, or hell... even making it.

Zugswang: I guess that's what the CIA gets for driving a Toyota instead of an American car.

wait... we have American cars still? I thought they were all made overseas now... That's what I have been taught on Fark.

oryx: It's not 1985 any more. so it's open season on US diplomats.

Does that mean I have to get rid of my flock of seagulls hairdo and my high tops?

rikdanger: "Mexican criminals who think of messing with U.S. agents..." Messing? Is that a technical term?

It's something Messicans do.

funk_soul_bubby: my_cats_breath_smells_like_cat_food

Don't own up, just act like it was intentional, there's a joke there, and no one gets it, so they're dummies. This is the internet, man!

ButterMule: Won't load. I'll just read fallow it tomarrow.

/cringe

/FTFY

Arkanaut: HindiDiscoMonster: The E's are the explosive and the pipe symbol is a brass or copper plate... can't remember... anyway, when the explosive went boom, it shot the plate in the direction of the vehicle and because the force and heat of the explosion was soo high, the plate reformed into a conical shape and became molten... passed right through the car and out the other side like it wasn't there. Shocking and scary if you think about it... most criminals have no problem getting C4, HMX, or hell... even making it.

Probably copper. Sounds like the textbook definition of a HEAT warhead.

could be where they got the inspiration for it... basically, the guy packed a backpack with explosive, put it on a bicycle, put a steel plate behind it, put a copper plate facing where the car would pass, set up a remote, and hit it as it was passing... shaped charge i guess.

poorjon: I think the problem is that they weren't so much "Mexican Federal Police" as they were "a hit squad".

The U.S. Embassy is uncharacteristically quiet, given the normal U.S. outrage over attacks on Americans working on foreign soil, from the killing this year of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others in Benghazi to the torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in Mexico nearly 28 years ago.

The U.S. needs the help of the Mexican government to fight the War on (certain kinds of) Drugs™ and it wouldn't be helpful to publicly point out how thoroughly infiltrated the Federales are by the cartels.

This is going to end up being Obama's Benghazi.

Happy Hours: You know - what's amazing to me is the Benghazi consulate attack gets so much attention and yeah people were killed there and the tea party is trying to turn it into a political scandal, but it's just typical terrorism while this goes largely unexplained and while there were no deaths it's not like they didn't try to kill anyone - and it is largely ignored.

You do know an ambassador was killed in that attack right? Typical terrorism? What? Oh and if you notice there is a link to this story, in the news, which is always ignored. Cause we're not talking about it right now.