Posted on 04/26/2008 7:57:32 AM PDT by Ladycalif
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle near the U.S. border on Saturday, one of the bloodiest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war.
Rival factions of the local Arellano Felix drug cartel in Tijuana on the Mexico-California border fought each other with rifles and machine guns in the early hours of the morning, police said.
The bodies lay in pools of blood, strewn along a road on the city's eastern limits, surrounded by hundreds of bullet casings. Many of the victims' faces were destroyed.
"By the way this happened and the guns used, we believe the men are from the same cartel, the Arellano Felix gang," said a senior police officer in Tijuana who declined to be named.
Border Battles Ping!
That can't be right. It is illegal to own a firearm in Mexico. No doubt they bought them at a gun show in the USA. We need to close that loophole so this out of control violence can be stopped! /s/
Sounds like El Maraiachi paid them a short visit.
Were they in the Mexican police or army?
One can never tell.
“Where’s the fence?”
Ask Bush.
“I called three of his offices trying to apply for the jobs. I was told he didn’t say what you hear him saying in the video.”
Ugh...I’m sure we’ll be hearing many more of the same kind of excuses in the future....McCain got thousands of letters applying. I thought his political career was done then. Wishful thinking.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
The government in Mexico has lost control of the country. Mexico is now like Colombia was a few years back.
Yeah...if I am facing someone armed with a firearm, knife, or even a rock- I would sure want to be armed with a paint ball gun so I could defend myself. Not! I travel the border smuggler routes regularly and I carry- but not a paint ball gun.
The government really wants to recruit military veterans fo BP careers; and can’t seem to figure out why they are having a hard time recruiting enough to fill the openings- I can only imagine how successful recruiting will be if they tell them they will be armed with a paint ball gun.
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