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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: fbi; mexico; unprecedented; violence; vivalaraza; warnextdoor
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To: NormsRevenge

If Americans did not provide the demand, there would be no need for a supply.


41 posted on 04/06/2011 8:50:41 PM PDT by doug from upland (website reserved just in case: TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: Squantos

I’m just a po boy... but I’ve heard good things about Black Hills. I’ll give er a try.

A few more weeks of shoveling snow and then a few lawns... maybe I can actually window shop a new caliber rcbs set. Wait, what?

Needs must study.


42 posted on 04/06/2011 9:02:11 PM PDT by glock rocks (Donald Trump is Ross Perot in drag)
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To: NVDave
So when do they declare it to be a “full scale war?” When one side or the other starts using tube artillery?

Nossir. For this particular 'touchy subject', only preemptive -- not reactive -- use of thermonuclear weapons will suffice, before you can start using that sort of extreme Tea Party rhetoric.

43 posted on 04/06/2011 9:09:55 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Bookmark


44 posted on 04/06/2011 9:31:01 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SkyPilot

Where’s the Duffle bag ???


45 posted on 04/06/2011 9:31:44 PM PDT by cmsgop ( I spent most of my childhood terrified that The Rhythm was going to get me.)
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To: Mariner

Marines in Mexico City AGAIN!?!?


No way. Hell no!


46 posted on 04/06/2011 9:32:56 PM PDT by unkus
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To: NormsRevenge

Just how would the deaths in Mexico stack up to a war like Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya? Which of these countries has suffered the greatest loss of life in the last four years?

35,000 in four years sounds like a genocide, and certainly exceeds the dead in Libya. Where is the NATO warfare committee?


47 posted on 04/06/2011 9:46:37 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota (Which are you? A producer, a looter, or a moocher of wealth?)
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To: ought-six

Oh, but the libertarians want open borders. See how nice everything will be under those fools?


48 posted on 04/06/2011 9:48:35 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Mariner
[Last report I saw from some official agency said that 60-65% of cartel revenues came from pot. Something like $20bil.]

Marijuana is the staple product of the cartels. In recent years pharmaceutical narcotics—dilaudid, oxycodone, hydromorphone, hydrocodone, etc.—are eclipsing heroin as the drug of choice for U.S. junkies. These prescription drugs are imported to Mexico from the U.S. then smuggled back (re-exportation). The cartels also formulate bootleg versions of popular U.S. pharmaceuticals.

49 posted on 04/06/2011 10:03:59 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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Most people don’t realize that the average Mexican is more moral then the average American nowadays in its land of genocidal Marxist Darwinian Nihilism or False Conservatism.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2009/jan/09012902

Most people also don’t realize that most all of the killing there and in certain other latin american countries is directly related to various Satanic, Ritualistic types of Cult Gangs who do not kill for money all the time but rather to gain power with Satan (according to their beliefs) and respect/worship/fear from others. Also most of these Satanic gang members are street thugs by the time they are 11 or 12, they grow out of their Satanism by the time they are 30 unlike Muslims or Marxists, that is if they live to see 30. They usually then turn to the Roman Catholic Cult after that, but at least then most of their murdering days are over, and they just become long term heretic pagan fusionists following the RC beliefs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1rZZtSnYuo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQftFWM41Q


50 posted on 04/06/2011 10:21:26 PM PDT by LeaveAmericaNow
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To: NormsRevenge

“I would say there are full-scale warring factions that utilize homicide as a mechanism of retaliation, staking out one’s turf, retribution...”

But not a war. What’s that called this week, a kynematic rehearsal?


51 posted on 04/06/2011 10:24:28 PM PDT by Moose Burger
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To: Lazamataz
Nossir. For this particular 'touchy subject', only preemptive -- not reactive -- use of thermonuclear weapons will suffice,

You silver tongued devil!

Us or them? Does not matter I suppose... .

52 posted on 04/06/2011 10:42:56 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ought-six

Yes and it makes me so ANGRY. The enemy is within. It is our own so-called “leaders.” They are traitors. We are witnessing history. Rotten stinking history. Our grandchildren are in for something totally different than the America we knew and loved.


53 posted on 04/06/2011 11:02:35 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: LeaveAmericaNow

I don’t know if I believe that Mexicans are more moral than Americans. They do just as much if not more drunk driving, gang banging, raping, killing, and lying.


54 posted on 04/06/2011 11:07:47 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: NormsRevenge

It’s not a drug war!

It’s a high level of narco-related non-military kinetic action.


55 posted on 04/06/2011 11:10:46 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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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.

Though, not for lack of trying by the ATF!

56 posted on 04/06/2011 11:22:19 PM PDT by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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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.

“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.
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So, what he’s saying is Mexico experience a kinetic action from the cartels? I wish these people would quit butchering the language and speak the truth. Of course, if they did speak the truth it would be by accident and would probably kill them.


57 posted on 04/06/2011 11:33:56 PM PDT by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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To: fanfan; Blood of Tyrants; fwdude; bamahead; FRiends

“What doubles the risk of developing psychosis?”

http://www.amenclinics.com/blog/tag/marijuana/

My sis has been smoking marijuana regularly since age 14; she is now 56 years old and on disability because of a “personality disorder”, for crazy shit like attacking people. She has holes in her brain where there is no neural activity.

Damn shame. She used to be a nice person until she bought into the lies about marijuana being harmless.


58 posted on 04/06/2011 11:40:33 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: SatinDoll

Be careful that you’re not mistaking association with causality. Two things might be associated, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that one caused the other. I’m sorry to hear about your sister, but you cannot say that her behavior would not have happened but for her drug use. In other words, her drug use may be a result of the personality disorder and not the other way around.

But more to the point, adults have the right to make stupid decisions. While there should be, and already are, laws to prevent a 14-year old from getting intoxicants, adults should be allowed the freedom to screw up their own lives as they see fit. Sure, it’s hard on their loved ones; but, I’m not interested in sacrificing my freedoms to protect other people from themselves.


59 posted on 04/06/2011 11:53:35 PM PDT by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: Redcloak

“I’m not interested in sacrificing my freedoms to protect other people from themselves.”

My sister was an addict. The idea that marijuana is not addictive is a crock.

The reason some drugs are illegal is because they are addictive and rob us of the ability to make sound decisions.

If that is your idea of freedom, I would hate to see you make a logical decision.


60 posted on 04/07/2011 12:13:59 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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