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WASHINGTON – Mexican drug cartels are “killing each other” with .50-caliber machine guns and grenades just across the U.S. border with Mexico, sources have told WND. The gun battles are occurring near Fort Huachuca, Ariz., which is the location of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and school. The Army center is 15 miles from the Mexican border, but the installation runs up against the border. A source associated with the center said that only a “three-strand barbwire fence” is keeping any spillover of heavily armed cartel members out of the compound. Students at the post have had only basic training...

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican newspaper reporter on the Arizona border remains missing after he was snatched by armed men who chased him to a police station. Saúl Martínez Ortega, 36, apparently drove to the Agua Prieta police station to seek help during the high-speed chase early Monday. When he arrived, the only officer around was a night watchman who didn't have a radio or a weapon. The gunmen used a weapon to smash the window of Martínez's sport utility vehicle so they could open the door and take him away. "We do not know anything," his mother, Olga Martínez,...