Posted on 08/22/2010 5:59:48 AM PDT by Flavius
A "major gunbattle" between drug traffickers and Mexican federal police broke out Saturday evening in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, causing U.S. authorities to cordon off a section of the city, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.
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Border/Drug War Ping
ping
I feel safe in the knowledge that our “leaders” are “monitoring” the situation (sarc off)
Sounds like the good old days when border patrol agents would ambush drug carriers back in the 1930s.
Charlie Askins Jr would be in hog heaven!
Bring back Colonel Charles Askins,Jr. and Bill Jordan to clean up this mess.
How did they know who was who?
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