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'Unprecedented' level of violence in Mexico: FBI
Yahoo ^ | 4/6/11 | AFP

Posted on 04/06/2011 5:12:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Using unusually blunt language, FBI Director Robert Mueller told US legislators on Capitol Hill Wednesday that there is an "unprecedented" level of violence in Mexico linked to the country's drug wars.

"I would not call it a full-scale war," Mueller told members of the House of Representatives as he discussed his agency's 2012 budget.

"I would say there are full-scale warring factions that utilize homicide as a mechanism of retaliation, staking out one's turf, retribution, that have contributed substantially to the number of deaths in Mexico," Mueller said.

There have been some 35,000 homicides in the past four years, Mueller said.

"I think it's fair to say that it's unprecedented," he said. "The last couple of years, I think, have been particularly bad."

The frank words are uncommon for a senior US official: the US ambassador to Mexico resigned in March after Mexican President Felipe Calderon said diplomatic cables written by the envoy -- in which he depicted the Mexican military leadership as unprepared for the war on drugs -- damaged bilateral ties.

And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in September had to back off of comments that the Mexican drug cartels "are showing more and more indices of insurgencies," and that the country is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago, when the narcotraffickers controlled certain parts of the country."

Even though the Mexican military and police "have undertaken substantial efforts" to address the violence, "it's certainly not under control at this point," Mueller said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: fbi; mexico; unprecedented; violence; vivalaraza; warnextdoor
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To: omegadawn
If you consider what obama is doing

Arming the cartel and blaming it on the availability of guns (read: gotta clamp down on those evil American gun sellers and owners). It's a twofer. Embolden the enemy, and emasculate America.

See a pattern here?

21 posted on 04/06/2011 7:15:13 PM PDT by glock rocks (Donald Trump is Ross Perot in drag)
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To: NormsRevenge
"I would not call it a full-scale war," Mueller told members of the House of Representatives as he discussed his agency's 2012 budget.

Really? With a body count adding up TWICE as fast as Vietnam?



FBI Director Robert Mueller told US legislators on Capitol Hill Wednesday that there is an "unprecedented" level of violence in Mexico...

Normal American Citizens to FBI Director Robert Mueller;

D - U - H - !

.

22 posted on 04/06/2011 7:17:40 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: omegadawn

The cartels have the means to smuggle terrorists into the United States. For the right price, they will eventually do so, if they haven’t done so already. Ergo Obama supports them.


23 posted on 04/06/2011 7:23:13 PM PDT by firebrand (Impeach Obama.)
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To: glock rocks

The pattern I see is “ TREASON”


24 posted on 04/06/2011 7:23:40 PM PDT by omegadawn (qualified)
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To: NormsRevenge

‘Unprecedented’ level of violence in Mexico: FBI
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Captain Obvious.

Who do they think they have been fooling?

The whole country knows, look at this:

http://www.blogdelnarco.com

See the videos here of filmed executions, posted there for over 2 years:

http://www.blogdelnarco.com/p/exclusividad.html

Has the FBI got a friggin clue?


25 posted on 04/06/2011 7:25:06 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: NormsRevenge
Uh oh.

Here comes the Obama Doctrine.

Can't let those civilians get killed. After all, we have a Responsibility to Protect.

Marines in Mexico City AGAIN!?!?

Sheesh, I thought we settled that one 160 years ago.

26 posted on 04/06/2011 7:32:00 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: glock rocks

Yep.......bloat !


27 posted on 04/06/2011 7:32:34 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Michael Barnes
"I agree, legalizing marijuana won’t solve much other than making less criminals out of marijuana users "

Last report I saw from some official agency said that 60-65% of cartel revenues came from pot. Something like $20bil.

I'll see if I can hunt something up online...

28 posted on 04/06/2011 7:34:53 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Squantos

The only upside to the great boating accident of 0’10 was that the boat went down too...

sometimes, ya just got to grab yerself by the hip waders and go forward.

Not to get too gun-porny here, but: is Federal running Lake City these days?


29 posted on 04/06/2011 7:40:49 PM PDT by glock rocks (Donald Trump is Ross Perot in drag)
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To: Michael Barnes
Marijuana is the bread and butter of drug cartels according to the last drug czar:

John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the "bread and butter," "the center of gravity" for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html

30 posted on 04/06/2011 7:45:25 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: NormsRevenge

Didn’t our Homeland Security man just tell us all was well on the border?


31 posted on 04/06/2011 7:48:27 PM PDT by dforest
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To: NormsRevenge
By all means, let's import more of this insanity. Right? I mean, that is what the Media and the Demoncrats say we should do.

Hey, as long as the Demonrats get some more illegal aliens voting for them, let's have more and more murderers, thugs, and criminals come on in!

32 posted on 04/06/2011 7:49:54 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Ken H

Looks like the URL to the DMN story is dead now. A quick googling shows other sources with the same quotes from the drug czar.


33 posted on 04/06/2011 7:51:31 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: popdonnelly

Yeah, we need 100% American-made meth and cocaine! American jobs are at stake!


34 posted on 04/06/2011 7:56:56 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: glock rocks

Alliant Tech Systems is the goobermint contractor running it to best of my knowledge.....


35 posted on 04/06/2011 8:06:32 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos

Aha. Mkay. Federal is a division of Alliant. I got quite a bump on the head when the Bayliner went down, but I remembered that part.


36 posted on 04/06/2011 8:13:05 PM PDT by glock rocks (Donald Trump is Ross Perot in drag)
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To: glock rocks

LOL....ya awright ?

Been wringing out 300RUM 180 Nosler Partitions and 77gr Black Hills 5.56mm in my working guns. For some reason shy of magic the Sendero loves the Nosler Partition. Scary magic....:o) Expensive to feed yet looking for the right recipe for the rock chucker to cook up some home brew for the 300RUM.

The 77gr Black Hills in a 1-8 twist is sweet thus far. Sod poodles fear me !!!!


37 posted on 04/06/2011 8:25:23 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: NormsRevenge

Next we’ll see Amnesty International pushing political asylum for the whole flipping country.


38 posted on 04/06/2011 8:28:31 PM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Did that POS Mueller figure out where the AK47’s we gave to the drug lords ended up yet?


39 posted on 04/06/2011 8:29:07 PM PDT by jenk (ima go with tgo)
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To: TSgt
Yes, yes there is epic mass murder on the Texas U.S. border, tens of thousands killed..., a massive endless violent invasion of across our own borders....

But what about Libya?

Yes, our priorities and our corrupt government are likely beyond salvage.

40 posted on 04/06/2011 8:50:09 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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