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  • Mexican drug cartels make Phoenix #2 in world for kidnappings

    02/12/2009 10:14:11 AM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 45 replies · 1,833+ views
    hotair.com ^ | Feb. 12, 2009 | Ed Morrissey
    According to ABC News, the use of kidnapping by Mexican drug cartels for ransom and revenge has spread beyond the Rio Grande and into Arizona — and the federal government has done nothing to stop it. Phoenix has become the second-worst city in the world for kidnappings, right behind Mexico City, with brutal dismemberments for those abductees who do not get ransomed quickly enough: In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City...