Posted on 03/11/2008 11:20:11 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
March 5
A Durango state police officer died outside his home when he was shot at least 70 times by gunmen traveling in two vehicles.
A police commander in Nuevo Leon escaped unharmed from an assassination attempt by three men who pursued him as he left work.
A firefight in Torreon, Coahuila state, between military forces and suspected gang members left one gang member dead and another wounded.
Gunmen fired on a group of police officers assigned to a congressmans protective detail in Oaxaca state. Three officers were wounded; the congressman was not in the city at the time of the attack.
Police in Tijuana, Baja California state, exchanged gunfire with armed assailants traveling in three vehicles.
March 6
The bodies of three unidentified victims were found outside the office of the attorney general in Oaxaca state.
March 7
Authorities in Tijuana, Baja California state, announced the arrest of three men in possession of nearly 100 firearms, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, 23 grenades, and half a ton of marijuana.
Authorities in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima state, seized more than $11 million in $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills in a shipping container aboard a freight ship. The seizure took place after a routine inspection of the ship which was headed to Panama revealed irregularities in the containers paperwork.
A police commander in Oaxaca state was shot dead while sitting in a park cleaning his shoes.
March 8
One soldier and six gunmen were reported dead after a firefight in Chihuahua state.
Two police officers in Jalisco state died when assailants fired on them with automatic weapons.
March 9
A taxi driver in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, was shot dead by a group of gunmen traveling in a vehicle.
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(*gack*) Sorry...wasn't channeling McCain there for a minute. If it happens again, kill me.
Yeah, well...
Maybe a few 'isolated incidents' perhaps?
Mexico Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
and our omniscient government would like the same thing to happen to public officials here, right?
This is going to happen in America before long! Mexicans don’t even obey the laws of their OWN country, and we’re supposed to believe they are ever going to obey OUR laws? WHY can’t our idiot politicians see the train wreck coming our way?
Is that omniscient knowing everything they choose to know or actually knowing everything that can be known?
BTTT!
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