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Slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's Family: Mexico could end up like Vietnam; "It's like it never happened"
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El Universal (Mexico) 2/16/2011

Beltrones: Mexico could end up like Vietnam

The chairman of the Mexican Senate, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, said the violence unleashed by the war on drugs could end President Calderon’s term with a death toll similar to that experienced in the Vietnam War. He reiterated that the issue of public safety is most important. He said that by attacking this problem directly all you have is violence, so it is better to have good governance and economic growth. But he denied that Mexico is on the brink of being a failed state, and rather it is possibly a "decrepit state" that has not created the new institutions of modernity.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/745428.html
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El Sol de Mazatlan (Mexico) 2/16/2011

Twentyeight Unidentified Bodies Buried

(Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) Forensic authorities have buried 28 unidentified bodies. It is believed the bodies are from the cartel violence in the city’s streets, and have not been identified by family as the deceased was from other states within Mexico. Genetic profiles have been kept.

http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemazatlan/n ... 968763.htm
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El Heraldo de Tabasco (Mexico) 2/15/2011

Young Woman Abducted and Executed

(Cárdenas, Tabasco) To the astonishment of customers and management of a cell phone store, an armed group of young men entered the store and forcibly took a young woman waiting in line away. Police shortly found her body dumped with bullet wounds to the head. A narcomessage left on her said ‘this I believe’ and was signed with a ‘Z’, indicating Los Zetas.http://www.oem.com.mx/elheraldodetabasco/notas/n1966711.htm
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Diario (Mexico) 2/16/2011

Man and Child shot and burned

(Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) Gunmen carried out a double murder this afternoon against a man and a boy of eight years of age who were shot and then burned inside their vehicle. Federal Police kept the family that arrived at a distance to prevent them from viewing the scene. (Note: as with the case above, the cartels are increasingly attacking innocent people, something that has not been seen to this degree previously. We only report a few of the many killings reported in the news. This increase may indicate either inexperienced cartel assassins just killing for the thrill, or it may be a tactic similar to that used by the Viet Cong in the Far East to frighten and intimidate the masses into silence and submission. In many smaller towns and rural areas of Mexico, for decades, the cartels have often been regarded as the benefactors, doing such things as building the town church, school or hospital. The people simply quietly ignore the drug trafficking activity.)

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Stratfor, a subscription intelligence source:

Venezuela: $365 Million In Debt To Colombia Paid

Venezuela has paid $365 million of its certified debt to Colombian exporters and will make more payments, El Universal reported Feb. 16, citing Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro. Maduro made the statements during a meeting with Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin. Venezuelan and Colombian officials will meet again onMarch 2-3 to discuss economic subjects.

(http://tinyurl.com/4bczwte)

Also from Stratfor:
Colombia: Two remaining hostages released by FARC.

Mexico: Los Zetas arrested and bank accounts seized.
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Blog del Narco: http://www.blogdelnarco.com

Nuevo León: Two state police officer bodyguards arrested in kidnapping and execution of head of police intelligence; more arrests expected.

Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas: Grenade attack outside hospital; no
injuries there; multiple shootouts elsewhere in the city.

Guadalupe, Nuevo León: Shootout and chase, four gunmen dead; several cars, homes and businesses were damaged by gunfire.

Tamasopo, Tamaulipas: Police headquarters attacked with grenades; no injuries.
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Venezuelans, French seize 3.6 tons of cocaine in Caribbean
http://tinyurl.com/4pqatsu

Domestic News - United States

Official: Gunmen knew ICE agents were law officers

http://tinyurl.com/4fooa47
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How attack on US agents in Mexico may impact relations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12489428
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Cornyn demands swift justice after attack on ICE agents
http://tinyurl.com/4jyczw2
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"It's like it never happened": Terry family on agent's murder

http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=14046416
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Analysis: Mexico risks losing large areas to drug gang
http://tinyurl.com/4c7wbd9
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Border Patrol Controls Just 44 Percent of South
http://tinyurl.com/4cum4d3
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Border chief: Agency has to understand cartel-Arizona
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_1740 ... ck_check=1
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Agents arrest three immigrants convicted or wanted for homicide-Texas
http://www.themonitor.com/news/immigran ... three.html
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More than a ton of pot found inside stolen trucks-Texas
http://www.themonitor.com/news/pot-4713 ... n-ton.html
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Three-Year Jail Sentence for Illegal Alien Who Fled From Border Patrol-Ohio
http://tinyurl.com/48a6a6c
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Over 1,000 rounds of ammunition found at border-Arizona
http://tinyurl.com/4nd53x8
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Video Gallery Agent Terry's family: "It's like it never happened"
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Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry died December 15 after a shootout with border bandits near Rio Rico
Four suspects were taken into custody following the shooting
So far, the suspects have only been charged with illegal entry into the U.S.

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) – Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is remembered as an American hero. But, two months and one day after someone gunned him down in the southern Arizona desert, Terry's family said they believe the government he bravely worked for has forgotten about him.

"Is it upsetting for your family that you're still not getting answers?" KGUN9's Joel Waldman asked the Terry family.

"Oh yeah, we're left in the dark here," said Kent Terry, Jr., Brian's older brother. "I mean, the only time you ever hear anything is from the media out there where you're at [in Tucson]. But, as far as out here [in Michigan], it's like it never happened,"

"I'm devastated! It brings us back to day one. Here you are thinking you have the right people in custody and now they're saying they don't! Do we have the right people?" asked Agent Terry's sister, Kelly Terry.

As KGUN9 news previously reported, three of the four suspects originally detained in this case pleaded guilty only to misdemeanor immigration crimes and will be deported.

"Have you heard anything about this fourth suspect, I mean, are you getting any information at all?" Waldman asked.

"The only thing I heard is what you just said. There was one illegal wounded at the scene. That's the last I heard of it. And, the only thing I heard of it," Kent Terry said.

Officials will only confirm that the fourth suspect was wounded. But, they won't say how he was wounded, or if he'll even be charged in connection with Terry's death.

And, now, another wound for the Terry family to suffer--one U.S. Senator has claimed that the guns used to shoot Agent Terry came from the U.S.

In a Senate committee meeting, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley claimed that on December 16, one day after Brian died, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms tracked two serial numbers on guns found at the scene back to Jaime Avila, a suspected trafficker. Grassley claimed the ATF tracked those same guns to that same dealer one year earlier, but then let the guns slip through their fingers.

Iowa's Senator Charles Grassley wrote a letter Wednesday to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The letter reads, in part:

"…when asked whether Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) had encouraged any gun dealer to proceed with sales to known or suspected traffickers such as Avila, the briefers said only that they did not have any 'personal knowledge' of that."

Senator Grassley says ATF whistle blowers told him guns used in the shooting death of Brian Terry came from a Glendale, Ariz., gun shop and that agency knew of the sale. According to Sen. Grassley, those whistle blowers told him it was a botched operation.

"As far as the ATF to do that, as far as I'm concerned, the blood's on their hands. They should never have done that. Them (sic) guns should've been destroyed not put back on the market for them bandits to get a hold of," added Kent.

Carolyn Terry, Brian's stepmother, praised Sen. Grassley for pursuing an investigation into the ATF. She wrote an email to him, saying, "It's hard to accept that our son was shot and murdered with a gun that was bought in the U.S. We have not had any contact from the Border Patrol or any other agents since returning home on the 22nd [of January]. Our calls are not returned. I truly feel that our son's death is a cover-up and they hope that we will go away."

KGUN9 contacted Grassley's office Wednesday and was told the senator is not speaking publicly on this yet.



http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=14046416