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To: SpaceBar

You are correct in that it may not be martial law as we know it but when you pour a few thousand troops into a city to help control the situation martial law is in effect what you have. jmo.

http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1245213.html


32 posted on 03/08/2009 4:34:06 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport
Close enough for government work, I would say.


Federal police arrive to patrol Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, last week as part of a government effort to free Mexican citizens from a daily spectacle of assassinations, kidnappings and beheadings ordered by rival drug czars. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/MIGUEL TOVAR

34 posted on 03/08/2009 4:38:28 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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