Thread: Fourteen killed in Mexico drug battle on U.S. border

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... 4820080426

Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:54am EDT

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle near the U.S. border on Saturday, one of the bloodiest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war.

Rival factions of the local Arellano Felix drug cartel in Tijuana on the Mexico-California border fought each other with rifles and machine guns in the early hours of the morning, police said.

The bodies lay in pools of blood, strewn along a road on the city's eastern limits, surrounded by hundreds of bullet casings. Many of the victims' faces were destroyed.

"By the way this happened and the guns used, we believe the men are from the same cartel, the Arellano Felix gang," said a senior police officer in Tijuana who declined to be named.

Two men were arrested but the remaining survivors escaped, the officer said.

The Arellano Felix gang was long the dominant drug-trafficking organization in Tijuana, smuggling drugs into California. Recently the group has been under attack from a rival gang from the Pacific state of Sinaloa, led by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.

Some 190 people have been killed in Tijuana so far this year, as the military steps in to try to quell the violence.

President Felipe Calderon has been locked in a war with the drug cartels since taking office in December 2006, sending some 25,000 soldiers and federal police to fight cartels in drug hot spots across Mexico.

Last year, there were more than 2,500 drug killings and there have been more than 900 this year.

(Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; Editing by Bill Trott)

Arellano Felix Compound Across the Border From The Campo Minutemen

Did you hear President Bush talking from NO the other day, with a beaming Calerone standing by his side......talking about all the new prosperty in evidence all along both sides of the border ?

There is prosperity from drugs, illegal traffic and USA welfare. I've lived
on and long the border and the corruptions grows worse each day while
may cites show on the map USA they are in fact Mexico run, my opinion.

Bush is a piece of dung.

I agree.....LA,CA being one of them.

Bush is a piece of dung.

I can think of some stronger lanquage to describe him, but being a lady and all, I'll leave it at that.

The gang wars will remain south of the Border only GOOOOD FAMILY VALUES will cross north of the Border, we have the Bushwackers word!!!

Ya, and dang it all, we keep splitting them up by making them sneak over the border !

Originally Posted by ladyofshallot

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle near the U.S. border on Saturday, one of the bloodiest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war.

Rival factions of the local Arellano Felix drug cartel in Tijuana on the Mexico-California border fought each other with rifles and machine guns in the early hours of the morning, police said.

"By the way this happened and the guns used, we believe the men are from the same cartel, the Arellano Felix gang," said a senior police officer in Tijuana who declined to be named.

SO Now the drug cartels are fighting against each other.
so that means they will kill each other off sooner..

SO Now the drug cartels are fighting against each other.
so that means they will kill each other off sooner..

I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.