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Fourteen killed in Mexico drug battle on U.S. border
Reuters ^ | April 26, 2008 | (Reuters)

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; drugcartels; illegalimmigation; immigrantlist; immigration; mexico
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Arellano Felix Compound Across the Border From The Campo Minutemen


1 posted on 04/26/2008 7:57:32 AM PDT by Ladycalif
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To: Ladycalif

That’s 14 less anyway...but plenty more to go, unfortunately.


2 posted on 04/26/2008 7:59:26 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib

Sure am glad that our agents weren’t involved, they are considering arming them with PAINT BALL GUNS, that is right PAINT BALL GUNS.


3 posted on 04/26/2008 8:01:39 AM PDT by stockpirate (Be a MAVERICK in the GOP , go against the wishes of our nominee John McCain!)
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To: stockpirate; SwinneySwitch; tennteacher; lonewacko_dot_com; radar101; ruination; gubamyster; ...

border war ping


4 posted on 04/26/2008 8:04:05 AM PDT by Ladycalif (Free The Texas 3 - Ramos, Compean and Hernandez)
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To: Ladycalif

Why hasn’t the “compound” been obliterated?


5 posted on 04/26/2008 8:04:50 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: Ladycalif

BTT!

Don’t worry, John will fix it all....

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: “ My friends, I’ll offer anybody here $50 an hour if you’ll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for whole season. So — OK? Sign up. OK. When you sign up — you sign up, and you’ll be there for the whole season. The whole season, OK? Not just one day. Because you can’t do it, my friend. Sign up.”

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6 posted on 04/26/2008 8:08:29 AM PDT by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: Ladycalif

“Where’s the fence?”


7 posted on 04/26/2008 8:13:05 AM PDT by tennteacher (Hunter Conservative)
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To: AuntB

And many tried to take him up on his deal...but he was just blowing smoke out his...well you know.


8 posted on 04/26/2008 8:16:12 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Please Support and pray for our Troops, as they serve us every day.)
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To: tennteacher

Where are the border agents? Oh yeah, in jail.


9 posted on 04/26/2008 8:21:04 AM PDT by Ladycalif (Free The Texas 3 - Ramos, Compean and Hernandez)
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Why hasn’t the “compound” been obliterated?

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11 posted on 04/26/2008 8:32:07 AM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

That is Great!! LOL


12 posted on 04/26/2008 8:34:22 AM PDT by Ladycalif (Free The Texas 3 - Ramos, Compean and Hernandez)
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To: Cobra64

Thank you. Nice work.


13 posted on 04/26/2008 8:37:46 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: Ladycalif

Note that the casualties were caused by intra-gang fighting, not by the police or military suppressing them. The Mexican authorites are either helpless or complicit in these wars.


14 posted on 04/26/2008 8:39:42 AM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Ladycalif

It’s a civil war!

Pull out now!

Quagmire!

Mexico out of TJ!


15 posted on 04/26/2008 9:20:18 AM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: stockpirate

I sent DHS an email yesterday asking them if they are nuts. I know, redundant question.


16 posted on 04/26/2008 9:20:50 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Ladycalif

Send that photo of the Felix compound to the Mexican Federales right away, with the GPS location!

I’m just SURE that they will raid it and arrest everybody there, as soon as they get this tip!

/sarcasm


17 posted on 04/26/2008 10:30:08 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Ladycalif

Coming soon to a city near you.


18 posted on 04/26/2008 11:18:15 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: AuntB

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.


19 posted on 04/26/2008 11:47:22 AM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: Ladycalif

A coupla salvos from a battery of 155s ought to take care of that mess...

I know, act of war and all...but, aren’t we supposed to be in a drug war?


20 posted on 04/26/2008 12:00:54 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Support our Troops ~ www.americasupportsyou.mil ~)
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