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Feds: Gun Smugglers Keep Cartels Heavily Armed An all-out war is raging in Mexico, and it is major news on both sides of the border. In 2008, 6,000 Mexicans were killed in gang warfare. In the first two months of 2009, more than a thousand people were gunned down in Mexico as the government intensifies it's war to bring down the narcotrafficking cartels. Mexican police officers are out-gunned by the firepower cartel gangsters are wielding, and bodies turn up tortured to death on the streets of Juarez and Tijuana on a regular basis. In the most gruesome new terror tactic...

Donna Mack knew something was wrong when she heard a car roaring toward the Newark street corner where she had just left her younger sister. But there was no time to react. She saw a hand come out of the passenger's side window. A flash of gunfire, two pops. Then she watched from across the street as her sister, Cynthia Mack, fell to the sidewalk, a stray bullet in her head. The 39-year-old single mother of two died immediately, blood pooling around her body at dusk on a March 2005 night as the gunman sped away. "She never opened her...

PRAGUE - The suspected arms smugglers were busted around daybreak. In an early morning raid, Czech police in Prague arrested two alleged weapons traffickers, a 28-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman, and confiscated a catalog offering Russian-made guns, tanks, missile carriers, warplanes, and naval vessels to prospective Middle Eastern clients. A few hours later, German police in the Black Forest hamlet of Pforzheim apprehended the pair's alleged boss, a Canadian citizen of Russian origin who used the alias Arthur Anderson. The group, police say, had been operating out of the Czech Republic for three years, organizing the sale of Russian-...