Posted on 11/15/2008 4:20:56 PM PST by NormsRevenge
TIJUANA, Mexico Two people were shot to death at a taco restaurant in the border city of Tijuana on Saturday, hours after a man's decapitated head was found wrapped in duct tape.
Prosecutors in Baja California state, where Tijuana is located, said two other people were wounded in the restaurant shooting, which apparently involved assault rifles.
Another man was shot to death at a pool hall, and two men were found shot to death on a street.
On Friday, gunmen attacked a state police convoy on a main boulevard in Tijuana, across the U.S. border from San Diego, but prosecutors said no injuries were reported.
While prosecutors offered no immediate motive in the attacks, Tijuana has been hit by increasingly violent turf battles between rival drug cartels, in which heavily armed hitmen execute rivals on city streets and attack law enforcement officials.
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haven’t gone down there since 1968. Will at this point never return too violent down there.
Haven’t been in a while. My roommate goes down to speak with the people that hire him to design their houses. He warns me that it isn’t safe for me to travel through Mexico.
Don’t they understand? The reasons for all these decapitated heads recently is the unenlightened policies of the past. But don’t worry, with the new obama administration all this sensless violence in Mexico will soon come to an end.
Tijuana is Camden with palm trees.
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