http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0%2C21985%2C22072764-5005961%2C00.html
“Mexican drug lords threaten foreign journos”
Article from: AAP
July 14, 2007 10:35am
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A DRUG gang has threatened to kill foreign journalists who report on the violence between rival cartels and security forces along the US-Mexico border, media and US officials have said.
Mexico’s cocaine smuggling Gulf Cartel has allegedly planned to hire gunmen to kill foreign journalists working in the crime-torn Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, on the border with Texas.
In response, two Texas-based newspapers have pulled their reporters from the city.”
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Border agent reportedly fires at group
UNION-TRIBUNE ^ | July 14, 2007
Posted on 07/14/2007 1:36:15 PM PDT by Ladycalif
At least one U.S. Border Patrol agent fired at a group of people in Mexico reportedly throwing rocks across the border last night, San Diego police said. It wasn’t known if anyone was wounded.
Police said they were called to assist agents along the border in the Tijuana River Valley area south of Monument Road and Hollister Street about 8 p.m.
An initial report was that a group of people in Mexico were throwing rocks at agents and that one or more agents had shot someone. No victim was found on the U.S. side, police said. No information was released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection last night.
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