Alejandro Villamor watched the US border patrol vehicle bounce along a rutted dirt track. The two man vehicle partol was traveling west bound about 100m into the US. His hide was a good 300m inside Mexico and outside the jurisdiction of the border agents. He had dug out a shallow trench overlooking the roadway on a small hill. this he covered in a chickenwire frame that supported a canvas tarp. the tarp was covered in dirt and small vegitation. This left him with a small slit to look out and fire from. He was going to make $30,000 for a weeks worth of work. The cartels did pay good money for the murder of honest US Border Patrol Agents.
Earlier that week he had slipped over the border and planted a series of nailbombs hooked up to timers along the stretch of road he was watching. The bombs made out of cans of beans were timed to go off next to the partol vehicle. While the individual agents wanted to do their patrols in armor plated vehicles the truth was that the US government just didn't have the money for that kind of equipment. The small nailbomb he had built would be enough to immobalize the vehicle without damaging it too much. He wanted to get ahold of the electronics inside the vehicle so simply blowing it off the road in a fireball was out. So he had to disable the vehicle while in a radio deadzone. The radios in the vehicle could be jammed but that would take a vehicle with enough powerful radios to override the SOS, and that would call atention to the area as well. As his personal weapon he was useing a Kimber model 8400 Tactical Rifle in .308 and backing it up was a Smith & Wesson M&P in .40S&W. He didn't nessisaraly need to shoot the agents, no matter how they died it would work for his plan.
The chosen ambush point was along a bank that would be hard to climb and more importantly hard for the gringos to escape his bullets. The nailbomb blew in a cloud of dust and destroyed the right front tire of the vehicle. The vehicle swerved into the bank and stalled out. Villamor snugged the rifle butt into his shoulder and took aim for the drivers door. The Agent tried to get out of what had turned into a deathtrap, he forced the door open and jumped out of the vehicle. Villamor squeezed the trigger and sent a 180 grain bullet into the man's chest. The agent's vest slowed down the bullet but couldn't stop it, leaving the agent with a sucking chest wound. He watched the Driver's partner drop out of the vehicle and behind the right rear tire. the man was useing it as cover while he found Villamor. Villamor watched as the agent moved around the vehicle to help his wounded partner. That's when Villamore shot the agent in the head before finishing off his wounded partner.
Crawling out of his Hide, Villamore drug with him a tire monted on a packframe. His plan was to replace the damaged tire and drive the vehicle into Mexico. It would buy him some time and take advantage of the horrible political relationship between the US and Mexico. Usually it put what should have been strong allies at each other's throats but it did have some advantages. His weapons were a biproduct of project Gunwalker where BATFE agents allowed Mexican Gunrunners to buy US weapons so that theoretically they could be traced to varous druggangs. The reality was that the weapons were out of control as soon as they left the gunshops. It was ironic that several of those firearms were linked to the murders of US law enforcement agents. On the mexican side of the border corruption was rampant and the powers in visible control of the country wanted the US to become part of mexico rather than deal with their own problems. In all it created a fouled up mess of things.
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