yea! sure we can win the drug war :) Original Article Mexico says military wasn't moving pot Uniformed men flee U.S. officials on Texas border Alicia A. Caldwell Associated Press Jan. 25, 2006 12:00 AM SIERRA BLANCA, Texas - Men in Mexican military-style uniforms crossed the Rio Grande into the United States on a marijuana-smuggling foray, leading to an armed confrontation with Texas law officers, authorities said Tuesday. No shots were fired. The men retreated and escaped back across the border with much of the pot, though they abandoned more than a half-ton of marijuana as they fled and set fire to one of their vehicles, authorities said. The Mexican government denied its military was involved. Monday's confrontation involved three Texas sheriff's deputies, Texas state troopers and at least 10 heavily armed men from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, said Rick Glancey of the Texas Border Sheriffs' Coalition. Gov. Rick Perry ordered an investigation. "It's certainly troubling and unacceptable, and a real reminder of how an unsecure border threatens all Texans and the rest of the nation," spokesman Kathy Walt said. The Mexican Foreign Relations Department said in a statement that drug traffickers and other organized criminals have previously used uniforms and vehicles. "It is possible that these actions were designed to damage the image of our armed forces," it said. Congress may look into incursions. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., plans a hearing on incursions and border violence March 1 in a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, a spokesman said. The committee will ask Border Patrol officials to testify. Kyl also wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, asking her to open an official investigation. Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., wrote to the State Department last week, as well, and called for states like Arizona to form their own border guard units funded by the federal government. Monday's incident follows a story in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario, Calif., on Jan. 15 that said the Mexican military had crossed into the United States more than 200 times since 1996. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said reports of Mexican incursions into the United States were overblown. The confrontation on Monday was near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso, and started when state police tried to stop three sport utility vehicles on Interstate 10. The vehicles made a quick U-turn and headed toward the border, a few miles away, Glancey said. When the SUVs reached the river, police saw the occupants of a Mexican army-style Humvee apparently waiting for the convoy, Glancey said. Police stopped and watched as the vehicles began to cross the shallow river into Mexico. The Americans and the smugglers had their weapons drawn. One SUV got stuck in the river, and another blew a tire on the Texas side. Its driver ran into Mexico. Men in the Humvee tried to tow the stuck vehicle out of the river. When that failed, a group of men in civilian clothes began unloading from the SUV what appeared to be bundles of marijuana. They then torched the SUV, Glancey said. Deputies found about 1,400 pounds of marijuana in the vehicle that had a flat tire. The vehicle had been reported stolen in El Paso.