Thread: Mexico deadlier than Iraq

Mexico deadlier than Iraq
Body count exceeds 4,400 this year in wave of drug-related violence

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Posted: November 11, 2008
1:00 am Eastern


By Chelsea Schilling
© 2008 WorldNetDaily


Drug-related bloodshed has killed more than 4,400 people across Mexico this year – a body count that has already exceeded the U.S. military death toll of 4,192 in the Iraq war since March 20, 2003.

Violence involving soldiers, police and gangs has resulted in murders of 387 people in the first two weeks of October alone, and 58 killings were reported on Nov. 3, the day drug hitmen ambushed and killed two police officers with grenades and guns.

The violence is not letting up in Mexico, where brutal murders are reported daily. This month is no exception.

On Election Day, a jet carrying Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño, the second highest official of the Mexican government, crashed in Mexico City. Fourteen people, including Mouriño, were killed, and 40 were injured. Many people believe the plane was a cartel target because top crime-fighting officials were aboard, including former Assistant Attorney-General José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos – an official whose name was found on a hit list.

Mexican authorities claim there is no evidence that the plane was targeted.But according to a survey published by the Milenio newspaper, 56 percent of Mexicans are refusing to believe the plane crash was an accident, even if police determine so.

This week, two disabled police officers were shot to death in Juarez, across the border from El paso, Texas. They were part of a special unit to help disabled people, the Associated Press reported. One officer was nearly blind while the other was wheelchair-bound.

Twelve police officers were murdered in the first week of November. Mexican gunmen armed with automatic rifles and grenades also riddled police chief Juan Manuel Pavon Felix and three other men with bullets in Nogales just last week, while another police chief, Alejandro Parada, was shot to death Friday.

Another man was handcuffed, decapitated and put into a plastic bag hanging from a Juarez bridge. His head was found in another bag in a nearby plaza. Kidnappers also murdered a 5-year-old boy in Mexico City by injecting his heart with acid.

Gunfire erupted Friday after Mexican drug gangs clashed inside a Mazatlan prison, killing five people. According to a Reuters report, guns and drugs are common in most Mexican prisons filled with drug and organized-crime convicts.

This weekend also marked bloody deaths of 10 people – including policemen – in Tijuana. Drug hitmen killed three of the men in drive-by shootings, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Meanwhile, Mexican police captured the country's most feared death squad boss, Jaime "The Hummer" Gonzales this week, along with the largest arms collection in Mexico history – 540 rifles, 165 grenades, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and 14 sticks of TNT – all near the U.S. border.

The FBI said Gonzales is suspected of ordering dozens of hitmen to Reynosa for a confrontation with U.S. police, London's Telegraph reported.

Security analyst Fred Burton at the Austin, Texas-based Stratfor firm, a private intelligence and analysis company, told Voice of America he is concerned that the violence is spilling into the U.S.

"If you talk to the border sheriffs, which I do – if you talk to the police departments along the border, they will tell you they have a significant problem with cross-border abductions, murders, the homicide rate, and it impacts on us all in the United States," Burton said.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada told Green Valley News, "When they go after cops, this is scary. It's the work of brazen, seemingly fearless executioners."

He said the violence can easily spill over into the U.S.: "The border is an invisible line."

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory in October for Americans who visit Mexico. Public shootouts, muggings, murders and bank robberies are rampant – even in broad daylight – and Mexican criminals harass U.S. travelers along border regions.

"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have taken on the characteristics of small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and, on occasion, grenades," the State Department warned.

Meanwhile, Mexican officials have launched a desperate campaign to draw American tourists back into Juarez after many decided to stay away from the region, the Associated Press reports. Billboards tout the city as the "land of encounters."

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What the mexican government needs to do is move its citizens further south and declare martial law in these border towns taken over by the drug cartels. Let the cartels duke it out with the military, and take away human targets from the cartels.

Once the cartels are wiped out, let people move back in.

Obviously, we need to militarize the border to prevent anyone from getting through into the US.

What astounds me is that these morons expect Americans to "come on down, everything's fine" with all this crap going on? Riiiiiiiight.

Maybe we can use the National Voluntary Army King Obama is going to impose on us. LOL

Originally Posted by miguelina

What the mexican government needs to do is move its citizens further south and declare martial law in these border towns taken over by the drug cartels. Let the cartels duke it out with the military, and take away human targets from the cartels.

Once the cartels are wiped out, let people move back in.

Obviously, we need to militarize the border to prevent anyone from getting through into the US.

What astounds me is that these morons expect Americans to "come on down, everything's fine" with all this crap going on? Riiiiiiiight.

But look at the performance of George Bush and John McCain on this issue. We have known areas along the border that act as known drug corridors and should have been shut down a long time ago with use of the military. But they drag their feet and bloviate, and "blunder" their way through every issue involving this emergency because to them the use of cheap Mexican labor was always more important that the safety of the American public. Bush and McCain were always part of the problem, never part of the solution, and we have many dead Americans to show for their "anti-American" legacy.

Originally Posted by millere

Originally Posted by miguelina

What the mexican government needs to do is move its citizens further south and declare martial law in these border towns taken over by the drug cartels. Let the cartels duke it out with the military, and take away human targets from the cartels.

Once the cartels are wiped out, let people move back in.

Obviously, we need to militarize the border to prevent anyone from getting through into the US.

What astounds me is that these morons expect Americans to "come on down, everything's fine" with all this crap going on? Riiiiiiiight.

But look at the performance of George Bush and John McCain on this issue. We have known areas along the border that act as known drug corridors and should have been shut down a long time ago with use of the military. But they drag their feet and bloviate, and "blunder" their way through every issue involving this emergency because to them the use of cheap Mexican labor was always more important that the safety of the American public. Bush and McCain were always part of the problem, never part of the solution, and we have many dead Americans to show for their "anti-American" legacy.

I agree and let's not forget laraza, mecha, lulac, villaraigosa, guitirrez, coleman, lozano and their ilk who enable illegal alien slave labor. That's why we MUST seal the border NOW!

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Topics: Mexico, Mexican drug cartels, illegal immigration, illegal alien importers, violence, bloodshed, Murders, America's future unless illegal immigration is reversed.

Guess what? So is Chicago...

What about Detroit? When my uncle was in Vietnam, in the bush on patrol, he was safer than we were at home in the city.

Baja officials detain police officers on suspicion of crime links

UNION-TRIBUNE

2:51 p.m. November 11, 2008

TIJUANA – Nineteen municipal police officers and two state police agents have been detained on suspicion of having links to drug traffickers, Baja California officials announced Tuesday.

The officials did not identify those arrested, but Javier Cardenas, who has worked as a liaison with U.S. law enforcement agencies, was among the detained, according to sources who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to give the information, and others who witnessed the detention.

The arrests were made by the Mexican army, and those in custody will be questioned by federal investigators for “presumed links to organized crime,â€

Everyone needs to e-mail this article to their local news papers.