America's Third War: Mapping the Drug Cartels

By Jennifer Griffin & Laura Prabucki
Published November 19, 2010
FoxNews.com

Texas Department of Public Safety

A Zetas cartel vehicle.
Their tactics rival those of Al Qaeda: summary executions, kidnappings, torture, and beheadings.

Mexican cartels have executed more than 10,000 people since January -- five times the rate three years ago, before Mexican President Felipe Calderon deployed his military against the syndicates.

“The cartels don’t have to work like Colombia did for a middle man in Florida or in Texas or anywhere. They have people they know,â€