Mexican Pipelines severed by Explosions!

[American Patriot]

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Mexico Oil Pipeline Blasts Believed to Be Sabotage

Monday, September 10, 2007


MEXICO CITY — Six explosions believed to be the result of sabotage ripped apart pipelines for Mexico's state oil monopoly early Monday, the company said. There were no reported injuries.

Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, issued a statement saying it believed the explosions, which forced the evacuation of 12,000 people, were deliberate.

It said the six blasts caused four fires. At least five pipelines were affected.

A small, left-wing guerrilla group claimed to have attacked a major Pemex gas pipeline in July, forcing at least a dozen major companies, including Honda Motor Co., Kellogg Co. and The Hershey Co., to suspend or scale back operations.

The July explosions affected sections of a major pipeline extending from central Mexico City to Guadalajara in western Mexico.

Those attacks sent the Mexican government scrambling to increase security at "strategic installations" across Mexico. It was not clear what security measures were in place at the pipelines that exploded Monday.

[American Patriot]

Explosions Strike Mexico Gas Pipelines(More information)
wasingtonpost.com ^ | September 10, 2007; 1:18 PM | MIGUEL HERNANDEZ

VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Mexican gas and oil pipelines were attacked in six places before dawn Monday, causing explosions, fires and gas leaks that forced the evacuation of thousands of people.

The blasts reverberated for miles. No direct injuries were reported, though civil defense agencies said two women in their 70s who lived nearby died of heart attacks shortly afterward.

The six blasts happened about 2 a.m. in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, the Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said in a statement. The company immediately shut down the affected lines as well as an extra line in the area as a precaution.

Flames from the fires could be seen up to six miles away, said Pedro Jimenez, who was packing his family into a truck to leave. "You could see the fields of crops lit up."

Dozens of families lined roadways to evacuate to local shelters.

Pemex said domestic gas and gasoline service would not be affected.

At four sections of the pipelines, fires broke out, while at others leaking gas prompted fears of explosions and forced civil protection authorities to evacuate several communities including Ciudad Cardel and Antigua, said state Civil Protection Deputy Director Ranulfo Marquez.

The explosions also prompted authorities to close two main highways.

"We still have a gas leak in the area of Ciudad Cardel," Marquez said. "There is still a risk."

Authorities also were checking to see if any gas had leaked into the Chiquito River, near the city of Nogales, Nogales Mayor Marcelo Aguilar said.

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[American Patriot]

in a sort of related story.. Mexico, trucks, explosions, etc....

Mexico dynamite truck explosion kills 34
Associated Press via Yahoo ^ | 1 hour, 50 minutes ago | JUAN MONTANO



PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico - A dynamite-laden truck exploded after colliding with another vehicle on a busy highway in northern Mexico's coal country, killing at least 34 people, including three reporters at the scene, state and federal officials said.


Authorities said the two vehicles crashed into each other Sunday evening, drawing a crowd of curious onlookers as well as a small army of police, soldiers, emergency officials and journalists.


Shortly after the crowd arrived, the wreckage caught fire, and the dynamite exploded, sending a ball of fire into the sky that consumed nearby cars and left a 10-by-40 foot crater in the concrete, said Maximo Alberto Neri Lopez, a federal police official.


He said more than 150 people were injured.


The force of the explosion blew out the windows of a passenger bus a quarter-mile away.
The dead included three newspaper reporters from the nearby city of Monclova, said Luis Horacio de Hoyos of the Coahuila state Attorney General's Office.


It was unclear if the explosive truck's driver was among the dead. Early reports said he might have fled.


Coahuila state has a large mining industry, most of it in coal.
The explosion raised further questions about the safety of Mexican trucks.
This weekend, Mexico began sending its first tractor-trailers across U.S. territory under a long-delayed, NAFTA-mandated program. Before, Mexican trucks were limited to 25-mile zone along the border.


Many in the U.S. fought the change, arguing that Mexican trucks are unsafe.


Randy Grider, editor of Truckers News magazine, however, said Mexican trucks with hazardous materials aren't included in the new program.
"I think it would be a very long time before the border would open to hazardous loads," he said.


The truck that exploded in Coahuila did not appear to be headed for the U.S. It had recently left an Orica explosives plant and was headed west to Coquimatlan, Colima, a federal police officer who was not authorized to give his name told The Associated Press by phone.


A woman who answered the phone at Orica's offices in Monclova said all company officials were at a meeting, and she could not comment. The company is based in Australia and has operations in 50 countries across six continents.
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[Luke]

I would hope that the Alaska Pipeline has some type of security, but I have my doubts. Our nation needs to ramp up security on all levels in my opinion, but I realize that it costs money to do so.
However if haven't destroyed to much grey matter the phrase "provide for the common defense," comes to mind. I am pretty sure I read that somewhere.

[American Patriot]

Hahaha

Inuits with spears, bows and seal hooks also come to mind.

But, you're correct. Americans are, first and foremost, defenders of Freedom... we should be personally involved in defending ourselves.

Somehow though, a pervading feeling of "I'll leave this up to the authorities" has muddled our lives. The phrase "Taking the law into your own hands" has connations well beyond doing what you need to do -- such as lynching a bad guy, but in reality, the COPS are NOT there when Crimes are committed. Never. They come in and clean up the mess.

Police do not stop crimes. And the military can't stop a war, only participate.

[American Patriot]

Pipeline attacks in Mexico raise fears

By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers

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Mexican soldiers guard a road near the town of Omealca, the site of one of Monday's oil and natural-gas pipeline attacks.






WASHINGTON — Bombers attacked at least six oil and natural-gas pipelines in Mexico's southeastern state of Veracruz overnight Monday, sparking concern that the energy sector of the second-largest supplier of oil to the United States may be increasingly vulnerable to attacks from a fledgling Marxist rebel movement.


The bombings, the second such series in as many months, happened at opposite ends of the oil-rich state.


At least a dozen pipelines, most carrying natural gas, were affected, said Jesus Reyes Heroles, the head of Mexico's oil monopoly Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), without providing specifics.


He said there would be hundreds of millions of dollars in lost production and about nine states and the capital, Mexico City, would be affected.
Some local factories were forced to shut after natural-gas supplies were cut. Residential supplies were not expected to be affected.


At least 21,000 people were evacuated as a precaution. Some of them were later allowed to return home.


The Notiver news agency in Veracruz reported late Monday that propaganda for the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR), or Popular Revolutionary Army, was found in an unexploded bomb in the town of La Antigua.


The EPR had taken credit earlier for pipeline bombings on July 5 and July 10 in the Mexican states of Guanajuato and Queretaro, hundreds of miles northeast of Veracruz. Those attacks forced the closure of giant multinational factories run by U.S. and Japanese automakers and companies that make Kellogg's and Hershey's products.


That attack sent the Mexican government scrambling to increase security at "strategic installations" across Mexico. It was not clear what security was in place at the pipelines that exploded Monday.


Not everyone is certain, however, that the attacks are the EPR's work. "It seems very strange that they only attack Pemex," said Raul Benitez, an expert on Mexican defense and security issues at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. "They could be paid by some political interest to do this," he said.


Among the groups with a possible interest in damaging Pemex are the oil workers union, as well as political opponents of Mexican President Felipe Calderón and drug cartels, analysts said.


Fortunately for American motorists, the Monday bombings, like the July attacks, didn't strike at Mexican oil exports to the United States. Through June, Mexico exported an average of 1.46 million barrels of oil per day to the U.S. market, second only to Canada.

[Brian Baldwin]

So likely Domestic Terrorism? This is a far cry from what we need coming over our borders but you can bet your bottom dollar that once the Mexican President puts the heat on these criminals they'll be headed our way.

[American Patriot]

Wow. Gleaned from HotAir.

Mexican Intelligence: Hugo Chavez equips and funds the Pemex pipeline bombers

posted at 7:07 pm on September 13, 2007 by see-dubya
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So I go through the Peruvian papers to try to follow up on this odd little item, and what do I see but a report originating with Mexican intelligence about who’s behind the Sep. 10 pipeline Pemex bombings in Veracruz (which I wrote about here).


You could knock me over with a straw:

The subversive group, the Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR), that claimed responsibility yesterday the attacks against six gas pipelines of state-owned Mexican Petroleum (PEMEX), is financed by the government of Hugo Chavez, according to a press report based on the Mexican intelligence service.
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The EPR is financed by the government of Venezuela through the “Mexican Movement Bolivariano” (MMB), according to a report of the daily Rumbo de Mexico, based on reports of the intelligence agencies of the Federal Government.


The media published, several weeks ago, a note titled “the Networks of Hugo Chavez in Mexico”, in which it details that, from 2001, a base for [?] armed and subversive groups was formed. The EPR is indicated to be likely the most important, because it has received material, armament, and economic support .


In the 2005, the agents discovered a container secured in the port of Veracruz that contained several hundred AK-47s, which were sent by means of a triangulation through different countries, whose adressees were in fact under orders of the EPR. They also noted an entrance of armaments through the border with Guatemala, that was distributed between the cells of the EPR of Veracruz, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán, Hidalgo, state of Mexico and the Federal District.


In addition, that same year an activist of the “Bolivarian Continental Coordinator” - one of whose cells is the MMB-, Alondra Durán Oviedo, was stopped in Canada by intelligence agents. In her suitcase they found documents of the EPR, of the FARC, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, and of the Bolivarian Army as well as guerrilla manuals and instructions for the manufacture of homemade explosive devices.

Translation’s my own with a little backup from Google; help me out if you see any errors. The Rumbo de Mexico article they reference is here, and there’s more (in English) about Chavez’s attempts to subvert Mexico (and Canada! How about that?) in this 2005 article at VCrisis.


Hmm. Arms being smuggled into Mexico over their southern border? Sounds like they should look into some sort of fence…

[American Patriot]

Aztlan Website Celebrates Al Qaeda And Recent Oil Bombings In Mexico
Digger's Realm ^ | September 18, 2007 | Digger

Stating that "Al Qaeda's goal to collapse the US economy seems on track" on the front page of Aztlan.net, Ernesto Cienfuegos of La Voz de Aztlan brings us "Mexican insurgents cause record $80 per barrel crude oil price". In the article Cienfuegos states that:

"In addition, the Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (Stratfor), through the US State Department, is now offering its services to President Felipe Calderon. Stratfor is supposedly a private intelligence agency founded in 1996 in Austin, Texas but insiders know the outfit as "The Shadow CIA". Stratfor analysts say that the EPR has "evolved greatly". They believe that the recent sophisticated operations by the EPR can not be the work of simple "campesinos". Stratfor says that they believe the recent bombings were led by very experienced bomb makers. They note that the recent operations against PEMEX have evolved greatly from what is usual for the group. The range of the attacks are much more widespread and are coming much more frequent. They are also worried about the much more sophisticated and much more powerful Improvised Explosives Devices (IED's) the EPR has been using."

This basically tells us that the EPR, or Popular Revolutionary Army, are working with a more advanced terrorist group. This group is not only teaching them exactly how to carry out attacks, but also how to make those attacks more successful and devastating.

[American Patriot]

http://www.aztlan.net/mexican_insurg...rike_again.htm

[Phil Fiord]

Putting the obvious antiUS sentiment aside a moment, in this article from aztlan, consider one thing I noted.

"They believe that Mexican oil revenues are being siphoned off by the super rich and are never used to benefit the desperately poor Mexican people. The EPR claims that this is one reason why millions of Mexican workers have been forced to migrate north of the border."

That is obviously an opinion, but it is possible not far off the mark as it clearly is a common issue. Mexican workers and why they head north of the border. It is economic hardship as a main drive, and that can be agreed upon here. The way to accomplish fixing this is very narrow minded from the aztlan viewpoint as it uses violence and alignment with terror groups to accomplish goals.