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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55419
“MS-13 WATCH
Ultra-violent gang found in 42 states
Central American members move to Los Angeles, then branch out”
Posted: April 27, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Cliques of the ultra-violent Latin American MS-13 gang have been identified in 42 U.S. states, according to the director of an FBI task force, speaking at a conference here.
Another violent group, the 18th Street Gang, is in 37 states, said Brian Truchon, director of the FBI MS-13 National Gang Task Force, or NGTF.
As WND reported, Truchon spoke at the Third Gang Enforcement Conference 2007 conference, which is focusing on MS-13.
“One thing we figured out with the on-going cases was that Los Angeles is our starting point,” Truchon stressed. “When the gang migrates throughout the U.S., there is always a road back to L.A. From L.A., there is always a road back to Central America.”
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The FBI has identified 13 core cities for MS-13 in the U.S.: Los Angeles, Washington, Baltimore, New York, Houston, Charlotte, Sacramento, Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Omaha, Newark and Boston.
Currently, the FBI has in excess of 110 MS-13 investigations in 40 different FBI field offices. For the 18th Street Gang, the FBI has more than 20 on-going investigations in 15 FBI field offices.
The FBI has found foreign connectivity from MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang back to El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.”
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“N. Korea making nukes, will test again, general says”
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 25, 2007
North Korea is continuing to develop nuclear weapons and will conduct additional underground blasts aimed at regional “intimidation,” the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea said yesterday.
“Unless the six-party talks process prevails, we expect North Korea to continue nuclear weapons research and development to perpetuate its strategy of intimidation,” Army Gen. Burwell B. Bell told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
North Korea is continuing to produce plutonium from a reactor at Yongbyon and now has produced up to 110 pounds of the radioactive material, enough for several weapons, Gen. Bell said.”
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U.S. will not remove N. Korea from list of terror-sponsoring states: official
Yonhap News ^ | 04/27/07
Posted on 04/27/2007 12:18:19 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
“U.S. will not remove N. Korea from list of terror-sponsoring states: official”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, April 26 (Yonhap) — The United States will not remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism until progress is made on the North’s kidnapping of Japanese citizens decades ago, a White House official said Thursday.”