Navy SEALs Targeting Mexican Drug Lord?

One of the world’s most wanted criminals might find himself in the crosshairs of U.S. Navy SEALs, a Mexico City publication has reported.

Anonymous sources in U.S. and Mexican military circles told Proceso magazine that drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a high value target in President Calderon’s War on Drugs, might be hunted down in an operation similar to the one that nabbed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in 2011 (Operation Neptune Spear).

The alleged plan involves sending in three teams of Navy SEALs into the mountainous states of Sinaloa and Durango, where Guzmán, the leader of the world’s most powerful drug trafficking operation, the Sinaloa Cartel, is believed to reside.

Two SEAL teams would descend on Guzmán’s compound while the other would stay airborne in a helicopter flanked by heavily armed, unmanned drones.  SEALs would then carry out the “kill or capture” mission, snuffing out any resistance from retaliatory forces.

Sources defined the proposed operation as a “simple, quick, and surgical” strike against “El Chapo.”

The “El Chapo” operation would be “observed and directed “in real time” from the headquarters of the Pentagon’s Northern Command, and even from the offices of the National Security Council at the White House,” Proceso reported.-[source]