DEA agent kills suspected trafficker in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

DEA agent kills suspected trafficker in Honduras
Jun 24, 1:30 PM EDT

U.S. officials say a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent has shot and killed a suspected drug trafficker during a raid near a tiny Honduran town.

US Embassy spokesman Stephen Posivak in Tegucigalpa says the US agent was working with Honduran National Police, who arrested four other suspects and seized 792 pounds (360 kilograms) of cocaine during the operation.

Posivak says a group of people were unloading cocaine from an airplane at a remote landing strip when the law enforcement agents swooped in on helicopters. He says the US agent opened fire after the suspect reached for a gun in a holster, and the suspect died at the scene.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_HONDURAS_US_DRUGS?SECTION=HOME&SITE=AP&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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Short article No more at the link.

[bloomington-lib]

1. The US Drug Enforcement shouldn't be killing people in other countries...or here

What if the Honduran Drug Enforcement Administration started raiding houses and killing residents in whatever town, Iowa?

[Lars77]

2. I'm sure that would go down well... o_O

[Meiko]

8. You beat me to it

why do we have US Government law enforcement involved in foreign countries period. These programs needs to be looked at. All of these warrior cops working outside the US should to be told to pack it up, you are coming home. Let Honduras and the rest of these countries police their own internal problems.

[frylock]

3. so glad to know my tax dollars are funding this shit

[lib2DaBone]

4. What is the DEA doing operating in Honduras?

We already fund the CIA and the NSA.... why is DEA duplicating and costing us money?

[roody]

5. Well "we" took care of their elected

president three years ago this month.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Whereas Zelaya had planned to convert US-occupied Soto Cano air base to civilian use,

the second he was violently kidnapped, and taken out of his ancestral home, and his country of birth, the U.S. was fully assured of future use of Soto Cano, and has built THREE additional installations throughout the rest of Honduras.

It was important, as was written at the time, for Honduras to transfer busy traffic away from the airport they've been using in Tegucigalpa, since it has been considered the 2nd or 3rd most dangerous airport in the entire world for many years.

Now that problem is theirs for keeps, and the U.S. will share Soto Cano with the Honduras military until a progressive leader is elected again, and that could be a while, considering how the progressive leader they had was eliminated and replaced by an ultra-violent administration, and the blood feast began on everyone they considered politically offensive.

So sad. "Democracy!" Even the U.S. ambassador Hugo Llorens mentioned in one of his published communications that the coup was illegal.

[Bacchus4.0]

7. they are building a civilian airport right next to the base right now n/t

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[Judi Lynn]

9. That has very little to do with the fact the elected president, Mel Zelaya planned for the US to go,

and pull out of Soto Cano, just as Ecuador asked the U.S. to leave Manta air base.