pdb has a link up to a report produced by the Border Security Operations Center on a massive drug cartel shootout in Nuevo Laredo. This was a running gun battle between opposing groups (with, according to BSOC, some involvement by Mexican armed forces) over a two to three hour period.
The BSOC presentation includes photos, and some of those photos are graphic. Viewer discretion is advised. Skip to page 21 for the summary, if you don’t want to deal with the photos.
Edited to add: Jay G. has a post up at his site in which he points out a remarkable similarity between the right-hand photo in the second row on page 20, and this photo of a Suburban supposedly holed by F-16 fire when it wandered onto the wrong part of a military base. There’s some speculation in the comments about whether someone inserted an unrelated photo just to make things look better, or whether this is part of an evil master plan to play up the “drug gangs armed with American assault rifles” canard and get more funding. I’m leaving this post up, but Jay G.’s post makes me a lot more skeptical.
[…] Dwight linked to this after-action report on a two-hour gun-battle between the Mexican Army and members of drug cartel in Nuevo Laredo. (Warning: Includes some graphic images.) […]