MEXICANS TARGETED AGENTS, UNION SAYS

The U.S. Border Patrol agents' union alleged that Mexican soldiers who
crossed the border into New Mexico and fired two shots last week may
have been trying to collect a drug trafficker's bounty by killing U.S.
law officers. The union called for an investigation into the incident
despite the U.S. government's position that it was just an accident.
"That was no accident," Joseph Dassaro, vice president of the National
Border Patrol Council, said in El Paso, Texas. "The Mexican military
was well into U.S. territory for way over a mile and chased and fired
at agents."

Border Patrol officials confirmed last month that the Juarez cartel,
one of Mexico's biggest drug gangs, had placed a $200,000 bounty on
U.S. law enforcement officers.