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  • U.S.-trained forces reportedly helping Mexican cartels

    05/15/2008 2:22:15 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 6 replies · 245+ views
    Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau ^ | May 14, 2008 | STEWART M. POWELL
    WASHINGTON — As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday. The renegade members of Mexico's elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months, including prominent law enforcement leaders, the Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The slaughter has gained urgency amid high-profile assassinations of law officers in Mexico since...