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Mexico earns a rare victory against crime, thwarts Qaddafi son's plans
Christian Science Monitor ^ | Dec. 7, 2011 | Sara Miller Llana

Posted on 12/07/2011 4:38:00 PM PST by La Enchiladita

Mexico's success in preventing Saadi Qaddafi from escaping to a Mexican resort with his family stands in stark contrast to the impunity with which many international criminals are able to operate in Mexico.

...The Mexican government today is touting its role in helping thwart an attempt by Saadi Qaddafi, one of the sons of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, to enter the country under a false name and take up residence in a wealthy resort on Mexico’s Pacific coast.

The news comes less than two months after Mexico announced it had helped foil a plot that included an Iranian-American man allegedly reaching out to drug traffickers in Mexico to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: libya; mexico; qaddafi; saadiqaddafi
Delicious headline and scathing commentary. Too bad our politicians, every one, are too cowardly to tell it like it is re Mexico.
1 posted on 12/07/2011 4:38:01 PM PST by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

Just say no....


2 posted on 12/07/2011 4:49:24 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: La Enchiladita

Just say no....


3 posted on 12/07/2011 4:49:56 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: La Enchiladita

All this tells me is that the bribe amount was too low.


4 posted on 12/07/2011 5:01:30 PM PST by Cyman
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To: La Enchiladita

Daffy Jr. screwed up. Maybe he was weak on geography. Hasn’t SOUTH America been the historically favored destination of government bigwigs on the run? Mexico is in NORTH America, and entirely too close to the USA.


5 posted on 12/07/2011 6:40:05 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: La Enchiladita

We need to handle illegals the way Mexico does.


6 posted on 12/07/2011 6:41:42 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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