[Happy2BMe]

Spreading from El Salvador to L.A. and across the United States, Mara Salvatrucha 13 is increasingly well organized and deadly.

[maggief]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36676-2005Feb18.html

Murder Trial Offers a Rare Look at Gang
Expert Witness Describes Lives Filled With Violence

By Ruben Castaneda
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 20, 2005; Page LZ16

A member of the Fairfax County police gang unit testified at a recent murder trial in Prince George's Circuit Court and offered a rare glimpse into the workings of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, the Latino gang with an estimated 3,000 members in Northern Virginia.

(snip)

[international american]

We don't have an illegal immigration problem. Washington tells us so.

[thombo]

With tats like that,they can't be to hard to spot.

[who knows what evil?]

MS-13 is flooding into New England...they are all over the north shore of Boston. These savages are more of a threat to Americans than al-Qaeda could ever hope to be, and should be dealt with swiftly and harshly.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

As our Republican local morning conservative talk show hosts says, "Stop the knuckle-dragging pot and pan banging antics like Move America Forward's "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" ILLEGAL immigration protests in Washington, D.C. this coming April. Give the President's Guest Workers a chance."

Surely even the "cheap" labor mainline Republicans will allow citizens to express opposition to this gang. The Rats won't but is "cheap" labor that important to these commerce-above-all-else neo-Rockefeller Republicans?

A little sarcasm but what say the immigrant "rights" industry. Is it screaming Xenophobes!

[philetus]

One of these days, they'll have to bring in foreign troops to clean up the gang problem.

[Logophile]

Another reason to hate tattoos—they make one look like a violent lowlife. Why do so many high school and university students want to look like gang members?

[Rummyfan]

LEOs - Federal, State and local - need to make a concerted and coordinated effort to shut these murdering b*st*rds down!

[FreedomSurge]

They are just doing the crimes our local criminals are too lazy to do.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

Google News Search Term: "MARA SALVATRUCHA" (Read More...)

Google News Search Term: "MS-13" (Read More...)

WTOP.com (AP): Fairfax, Virginia - "MACHETE CONTINUES TO BE WEAPON OF CHOICE FOR GANGS" (January 16, 2005) (Read More...)

ABCnews.go.com (Reuters): Tegucigalpa, Honduras - "HONDURAS BLAMES STREET GANGS FOR BUS MASSACRE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The maras are related to Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles.") (December 25, 2004) (Read More...)

EL-UNIVERSAL.com.mx - Wire services: "MARA GANG WORKING AS HIRED GUNS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Mara Salvatrucha and MS-18 are Central America's largest and most ruthless street gangs, but crackdowns in Honduras and El Salvador drove much of the gangs' membership into southern Mexico, especially in Chiapas, Veracruz and Oaxaca.") (December 15, 2004) (Read More...)

BROWNSVILLE HERALD.com: "BANGLADESHI'S ARREST PROMPTS CONCERN OVER BORDER SECURITY" by Sergio Chapa (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Federal court records show Fakhrul Islam, age unknown, was arrested Dec. 4 with 13 other undocumented immigrants as they tried to pass through a wooded area east of Brownsville. The records said a man later identified by Border Patrol agents as a member of the Mara Salvatruchas gang was traveling in the same group as Islam. The Central American gang has alleged links to al-Qaida.") (December 10, 2004) (Read More...)

A Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a BROWNSVILLEHERALD.com article: "MARA GANG MEMBER ARRAIGNED AFTER ATTEMPT TO ENTER BROWNSVILLE" (December 8, 2004) (Read More...)

OFFICER.com (NBC4.com): "THREAT REPORTED AGAINST PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY POLICE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "PALMER PARK, Md. -- Police officials in Prince George's County, Md., say they are taking a very ominous threat against their officers very seriously. Law enforcement officials say they have received tips indicating that a violent street gang known as MS-13 may be planning to ambush and kill police officers.") (Updated November 12, 2004) (Read More...)

SEATTLEPI.com - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER (AP): Tegucigalpa, Honduras - "HONDURAN OFFICIAL SAYS AL-QAIDA RECRUITING" (Last Updated October 21, 2004) (Read More...)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "AL QAEDA SEEKS TIE TO LOCAL GANGS" by Jerry Seper (September 28, 2004) (Read More...)

FBI.gov - Seeking Information: "ADNAN G. EL SHUKRIJUMAH" (ALIASES: "Adnan G. El Shukri Jumah; Abu Arif; Ja'far Al-Tayar; Jaffar Al-Tayyar; Jafar Tayar; Jaafar Al-Tayyar") (VIEW POSTER. Click Here.)

IanLivingston.com - Focus: "ADAN GULSHAIR EL SHUKRIJUMAH" (Read More...)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): Tegucigalpa, Honduras - "AL QAEDA MAY BE TRYING TO RECRUIT HONDURANS" (August 22, 2004) (Read More...)

[hosepipe]

New York has always been run by mob rule..
Its just a different mob.. will take some time before they become official like the current mob.. unless the current mob eliminates them.. Pretty much the same for most big American cities.. Serpico where are you.?.. Oh! thats right hes dead..

[janetgreen]

Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) is unfortunately becoming everybody’s problem. This plague that came to Long Island from El Salvador by way of the streets of Los Angeles follows the same migratory patterns as the Salvadoran immigrant community that it preys upon, fanning out across the United States from ethnic enclaves in California.

Well, not ALL of them "fanned out" across the U.S. I've seen guys who look like this one all over L.A. County.

Can someone tell me WHY these gangsters are allowed to remain in America??? I doubt that any of them applied for citizenship.

[Thumper1960]

Within a few years, it will be commonplace for law enforcement to simply 'eliminate' their adversaries, as opposed to having to deal with the court systems. Adaptation to a virulent opponent is natural selection on a societal level. Once gangs declare open season on all citizens, there is no alternatives left to consider.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

thanks pres bush, clinton and bush for years and years of letting the scum of the earth in... You all sit in the big house with bodyguards while the thuggish trash you let in terrorizes citizens who pay your salaries... Disgraceful!

[B4Ranch]

Are you trying to scare people with the truth?

It doesn't work on FR. The President wants the borders wide open.

[Colorado Buckeye]

Bump for later.

[archy]

While the nation focuses on terrorism, the issue of gang violence has taken a lower priority. But to many, the violent acts of MS-13 members are more of an everyday threat that is being overlooked.

They're the left hand and the right hand of the same enemy.

"We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or five years or fifteen years from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they are going into Dallas, into El Paso, into Houston, into New Mexico, into San Diego, and each one will have embedded in his mind the idea of killing ten Americans."

--Thomas Borge, Nicaragua Interior Minister as quoted in the Washington Times, March 27, 1985

[infocats]

"But there was another message in the brutal slayings for the people of Long Island. And that message was that gang violence had moved into the upper middle class enclaves of the Island, into the kinds of communities where the locals assume that crime is somebody else’s problem."

Unbelievable! When we first moved out to L.I. in 1948, it was mostly potato farms and a few bedroom communities. As far as I can recall, the ethnic makeup was Irish, Jewish, and Italian and that was pretty much it. Violence was non existent and the educational system was the finest in the country.

How things do change!

[StoneColdGOP]

Oh yeah. This guy's just waiting to become a hard-working, productive member of American society...

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump.