Mexico Losing Control Over Northern States
by Anthony L. Kimery
Thursday, 12 August 2010

Cartels are taking note of the tactics of Al Qaeda

Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s government has increased the official estimate of the number of people who have been killed since Calderon ordered a crackdown on narco-cartels in late 2006 to about 30,000. But US counterdrug and intelligence officials have told HSToday.us that the number is “likely much higher … maybe forty or more thousand,â€