Post by jeffolie on Jul 25, 2010 11:27:43 GMT -6
I bet you did not see this one coming:
"...The cruelest aspect of the rehab center killings is that the attackers often try to exterminate everyone, whether they're the principle targets or simply people seeking treatment. .."
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Looks Like a War
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.
--Proverb
The same must hold true when it comes to the "war" on our southern border, right...?
(Image: source)
"51 Bodies Found at Northern Mexico Dumping Ground" (Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY – Investigators said Saturday they have found 51 corpses in two days of digging in a field near a trash dump outside the northern city of Monterrey, as excavations continued at one of the largest clandestine body dumping grounds in Mexico's bloody drug war.
The attorney general of Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located, said the victims included 48 men and 3 women. There so many bodies that authorities were using refrigerated trucks to hold them, Alejandro Garza y Garza told local television.
"Mexico's Drug War Adopts Al Qaeda Tactics" (CBS Evening News)
Car Bombs, Mass Killings Part of Increasing Violence Related to Drug Cartels
Responding to an emergency call of a policeman shot in downtown Juarez, an officer and a paramedic work frantically to save the man's life - when in a flash, a huge explosion occurs from a nearby car bomb.
Mexico's drug war takes a dramatic and frightening turn. For the first time, drug gangsters used a car bomb as a weapon. The wounded man was a decoy dressed in a uniform to lure police to the bomb. An officer, a paramedic and the decoy died in the blast.
Then, over the weekend, strange and ominous graffiti appeared warning the U.S. FBI to investigate corrupt Mexican officials, or expect another car bomb.
"The use of the car bomb clearly represents a tactical escalation … We've seen the first car bombing, there probably will be more,'' said Brian Jenkins with the Rand Corp, a think tank that studies government policy.
Mexico has been bleeding and crying since President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels four years ago. He deployed 45,000 troops; but so far they're no match for ruthless drug gangsters who are flush with guns and money from $25 billion or more annual profits from selling drugs to the U.S.
"Lawmakers Told Border Crime Getting Out of Hand" (Houston Chronicle)
Government Accounting Office says U.S. must do more to combat armed smuggling groups
Along the newly fenced Mexican border, dangerous and heavily armed groups are increasingly smuggling people as well as dope — and U.S. border investigators must dedicate more time to dismantle their organizations, according to a Government Accounting Office report released to Congress Thursday.
Though Congress has increased the Border Patrol to an all-time high of 20,000 officers, a small cadre of specialized federal investigators assigned to Immigration & Customs Enforcement devotes 16 percent of its time to probing the netherworld of border smuggling. And some border specialists have gotten stuck shuffling detainees instead of pursuing criminal leads, according to the GAO report presented Thursday to the U.S. House's border subcommittee.
Zetas branch out
The U.S-Mexican human smuggling business generates billions, but ICE agents have never managed to seize more than $17 million a year in smugglers' assets, Richard M. Stana, director of the GAO's Homeland Security and Justice Issues office, told the committee. He called those results "tepid."
A decade ago, 90 percent of Mexicans and other would-be illegal migrants crossed into the U.S. without using so-called coyotes, Stana said. But with a new wall and twice as many border agents, they increasingly use professional smugglers. That has meant higher prices charged by the smugglers, which attracted organized crime gangs to a business once dominated by less-violent operations rooted in migrant communities.
On the Texas border, the Zetas, the vicious former enforcers of the Gulf Cartel narcotics smuggling organization, have branched into the human smuggling trade.
"As we've done more to secure our borders, alien smuggling organizations have increasingly become more bold, violent and dangerous," subcommittee chairman Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, said Thursday. "Particularly troubling is the potential for these organizations to smuggle terrorists into our country."
Signs of sophisticated, highly armed and well-financed smuggling operations and related kidnapping and extortion rings have emerged in all U.S.-Mexico border towns, as well as large cities like Houston and Phoenix.
"Mexican Troops Seize Explosives After Clash with Gunmen" (Smart Grid)
Mexico City (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Mexican army seized 27 kilos (59 pounds) of sophisticated explosives after clashes this week with drug traffickers in the northern border state of Chihuahua, the defense department said.
Nine gunmen were killed and six others captured during Wednesday's battles in La Simona, a highland town on the border between Chihuahua and Sonora, the department said in a statement.
An earlier report spoke of eight suspects dead and did not mention the seizure of the tovex and SEC Detagel, both water-gel explosives.
Besides the explosives and a role of detonator cable, soldiers confiscated 15 assault rifles, three handguns, more than 2,500 rounds of ammunition, three bullet-proof vests, binoculars, a night-vision apparatus, seven satellite telephones and 10 vehicles, among other items.
"8 Suspected Drug Gunmen Killed by Mexican Soldiers" (Casa Grande Dispatch)
Separate shootouts plague border city of Nuevo Laredo
MEXICO CITY — Eight suspected drug gang gunmen died in a battle with Mexican soldiers in the remote mountains of northern Chihuahua state, the federal Public Safety Department said Thursday.
The department cited an internal army report saying the clash occurred near the rural town of Madera, about 145 miles south of the U.S. border.
The gunmen apparently opened fire on an army patrol, but the Defense Department did not offer any information on the attack or the identity of the attackers. The area is frequently used by gangs to produce and traffic drugs.
"Rehab Clinics Turn into Killing Zones in Mexico's Drug War" (McClatchy Newspapers)
CULIACAN, Mexico -- As narcotics addiction soars in Mexico, drug rehabilitation centers have become killing zones and recruitment centers in the country's escalating drug war.
Clinics have become incubators for crime. In central Mexico, a cartel given to religious fanaticism is thought to run its own drug centers, weaning addicts off narcotics only to convert them into killers.
Hired guns from cartels also have taken to using rehab clinics as hideouts after committing brutal crimes, making the centers targets of revenge for rivals. Almost every month, heavily armed squads break into a rehab center somewhere in Mexico and gun down those who are thought to be rivals from competing narcotics syndicates, along with innocent patients.
In one of the grisliest cases, assailants with AK-47 automatic rifles broke into the Faith and Life clinic in Chihuahua City, a desert hub about 220 miles from El Paso, Texas, lined up 19 people and executed them. The killers left a banner after the June 10 attack: "This is what happens to rapists, robbers, scum and pigs."
About a dozen violent attacks on drug treatment centers have occurred in the past year in Durango and Chihuahua states.
...
The cruelest aspect of the rehab center killings is that the attackers often try to exterminate everyone, whether they're the principle targets or simply people seeking treatment.
"In these centers, no one wears IDs. Since they don't know who is who, they kill them all. That way, they are assured that they get their target and that there are no witnesses," said Carlos Zamudio Angles, a social scientist working in Mexico City with the Collective for An Integral Drug Policy, a coalition of specialists.
"Guard Troops to Head to Border States Aug. 1" (Associated Press)
National Guard troops will head to the U.S.-Mexico border Aug. 1 for a yearlong deployment to keep a lookout for illegal border crossers and smugglers and help in criminal investigations, federal officials said Monday.
The troops will be armed, but can use their weapons only to protect themselves, Gen. Craig McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau said at a Pentagon news conference. The troops will undergo initial training and be fully deployed along the nearly 2,000-mile southern border by September.
The deployment announcement comes as drug-related violence has escalated in Mexico. Several people were killed over the weekend in a car bombing and in a separate massacre at a private party in Mexico. It also comes as the U.S. debate over illegal immigration has intensified in this election year.
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"...The cruelest aspect of the rehab center killings is that the attackers often try to exterminate everyone, whether they're the principle targets or simply people seeking treatment. .."
====================================================
Looks Like a War
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.
--Proverb
The same must hold true when it comes to the "war" on our southern border, right...?
(Image: source)
"51 Bodies Found at Northern Mexico Dumping Ground" (Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY – Investigators said Saturday they have found 51 corpses in two days of digging in a field near a trash dump outside the northern city of Monterrey, as excavations continued at one of the largest clandestine body dumping grounds in Mexico's bloody drug war.
The attorney general of Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located, said the victims included 48 men and 3 women. There so many bodies that authorities were using refrigerated trucks to hold them, Alejandro Garza y Garza told local television.
"Mexico's Drug War Adopts Al Qaeda Tactics" (CBS Evening News)
Car Bombs, Mass Killings Part of Increasing Violence Related to Drug Cartels
Responding to an emergency call of a policeman shot in downtown Juarez, an officer and a paramedic work frantically to save the man's life - when in a flash, a huge explosion occurs from a nearby car bomb.
Mexico's drug war takes a dramatic and frightening turn. For the first time, drug gangsters used a car bomb as a weapon. The wounded man was a decoy dressed in a uniform to lure police to the bomb. An officer, a paramedic and the decoy died in the blast.
Then, over the weekend, strange and ominous graffiti appeared warning the U.S. FBI to investigate corrupt Mexican officials, or expect another car bomb.
"The use of the car bomb clearly represents a tactical escalation … We've seen the first car bombing, there probably will be more,'' said Brian Jenkins with the Rand Corp, a think tank that studies government policy.
Mexico has been bleeding and crying since President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels four years ago. He deployed 45,000 troops; but so far they're no match for ruthless drug gangsters who are flush with guns and money from $25 billion or more annual profits from selling drugs to the U.S.
"Lawmakers Told Border Crime Getting Out of Hand" (Houston Chronicle)
Government Accounting Office says U.S. must do more to combat armed smuggling groups
Along the newly fenced Mexican border, dangerous and heavily armed groups are increasingly smuggling people as well as dope — and U.S. border investigators must dedicate more time to dismantle their organizations, according to a Government Accounting Office report released to Congress Thursday.
Though Congress has increased the Border Patrol to an all-time high of 20,000 officers, a small cadre of specialized federal investigators assigned to Immigration & Customs Enforcement devotes 16 percent of its time to probing the netherworld of border smuggling. And some border specialists have gotten stuck shuffling detainees instead of pursuing criminal leads, according to the GAO report presented Thursday to the U.S. House's border subcommittee.
Zetas branch out
The U.S-Mexican human smuggling business generates billions, but ICE agents have never managed to seize more than $17 million a year in smugglers' assets, Richard M. Stana, director of the GAO's Homeland Security and Justice Issues office, told the committee. He called those results "tepid."
A decade ago, 90 percent of Mexicans and other would-be illegal migrants crossed into the U.S. without using so-called coyotes, Stana said. But with a new wall and twice as many border agents, they increasingly use professional smugglers. That has meant higher prices charged by the smugglers, which attracted organized crime gangs to a business once dominated by less-violent operations rooted in migrant communities.
On the Texas border, the Zetas, the vicious former enforcers of the Gulf Cartel narcotics smuggling organization, have branched into the human smuggling trade.
"As we've done more to secure our borders, alien smuggling organizations have increasingly become more bold, violent and dangerous," subcommittee chairman Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, said Thursday. "Particularly troubling is the potential for these organizations to smuggle terrorists into our country."
Signs of sophisticated, highly armed and well-financed smuggling operations and related kidnapping and extortion rings have emerged in all U.S.-Mexico border towns, as well as large cities like Houston and Phoenix.
"Mexican Troops Seize Explosives After Clash with Gunmen" (Smart Grid)
Mexico City (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Mexican army seized 27 kilos (59 pounds) of sophisticated explosives after clashes this week with drug traffickers in the northern border state of Chihuahua, the defense department said.
Nine gunmen were killed and six others captured during Wednesday's battles in La Simona, a highland town on the border between Chihuahua and Sonora, the department said in a statement.
An earlier report spoke of eight suspects dead and did not mention the seizure of the tovex and SEC Detagel, both water-gel explosives.
Besides the explosives and a role of detonator cable, soldiers confiscated 15 assault rifles, three handguns, more than 2,500 rounds of ammunition, three bullet-proof vests, binoculars, a night-vision apparatus, seven satellite telephones and 10 vehicles, among other items.
"8 Suspected Drug Gunmen Killed by Mexican Soldiers" (Casa Grande Dispatch)
Separate shootouts plague border city of Nuevo Laredo
MEXICO CITY — Eight suspected drug gang gunmen died in a battle with Mexican soldiers in the remote mountains of northern Chihuahua state, the federal Public Safety Department said Thursday.
The department cited an internal army report saying the clash occurred near the rural town of Madera, about 145 miles south of the U.S. border.
The gunmen apparently opened fire on an army patrol, but the Defense Department did not offer any information on the attack or the identity of the attackers. The area is frequently used by gangs to produce and traffic drugs.
"Rehab Clinics Turn into Killing Zones in Mexico's Drug War" (McClatchy Newspapers)
CULIACAN, Mexico -- As narcotics addiction soars in Mexico, drug rehabilitation centers have become killing zones and recruitment centers in the country's escalating drug war.
Clinics have become incubators for crime. In central Mexico, a cartel given to religious fanaticism is thought to run its own drug centers, weaning addicts off narcotics only to convert them into killers.
Hired guns from cartels also have taken to using rehab clinics as hideouts after committing brutal crimes, making the centers targets of revenge for rivals. Almost every month, heavily armed squads break into a rehab center somewhere in Mexico and gun down those who are thought to be rivals from competing narcotics syndicates, along with innocent patients.
In one of the grisliest cases, assailants with AK-47 automatic rifles broke into the Faith and Life clinic in Chihuahua City, a desert hub about 220 miles from El Paso, Texas, lined up 19 people and executed them. The killers left a banner after the June 10 attack: "This is what happens to rapists, robbers, scum and pigs."
About a dozen violent attacks on drug treatment centers have occurred in the past year in Durango and Chihuahua states.
...
The cruelest aspect of the rehab center killings is that the attackers often try to exterminate everyone, whether they're the principle targets or simply people seeking treatment.
"In these centers, no one wears IDs. Since they don't know who is who, they kill them all. That way, they are assured that they get their target and that there are no witnesses," said Carlos Zamudio Angles, a social scientist working in Mexico City with the Collective for An Integral Drug Policy, a coalition of specialists.
"Guard Troops to Head to Border States Aug. 1" (Associated Press)
National Guard troops will head to the U.S.-Mexico border Aug. 1 for a yearlong deployment to keep a lookout for illegal border crossers and smugglers and help in criminal investigations, federal officials said Monday.
The troops will be armed, but can use their weapons only to protect themselves, Gen. Craig McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau said at a Pentagon news conference. The troops will undergo initial training and be fully deployed along the nearly 2,000-mile southern border by September.
The deployment announcement comes as drug-related violence has escalated in Mexico. Several people were killed over the weekend in a car bombing and in a separate massacre at a private party in Mexico. It also comes as the U.S. debate over illegal immigration has intensified in this election year.
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