Mass graves were found all over Iraq during the war.
Mexico's Cartels are not far behind Saddam Hussein and the insurgents in their criminal terrorist style attacks.
Its alright though Mexico is only right next door, Iraq is far away we should not have much of a problem here.
BBC
Mexican soldiers have uncovered 18 bodies buried on a ranch near the US border.
Troops acting on information from captured drug cartel gunmen dug the bodies out from 11 graves near Palomas in Chihuahua state.
Hours earlier, gunmen shot dead a female police chief in the town of Meoqui, also in Chihuahua...
suspected cartel gunmen shot dead Hermila Garcia, chief of police in the town of Meoqui, outside Chihuahua city.
Ms Garcia, 36, was killed in the morning as she drove to work.
She is one of a number of women who have recently taken on senior roles in local police forces in Chihuahua because many men are too scared to take the jobs.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Mass grave with 18 bodies uncovered in northern Mexico
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Mexico hunting 12-year-old drug gang hitman
A Twelve year old !
The Mexican cartels are truly ruthless, $3000 to off somebody ?
The AA (Artist Assassins) are a group of young kids that go around and not only point people out to the Cartels, but they also perform hits.
It's a messed up world.
(Reuters) - Soldiers are hunting a 12-year-old suspected drug gang hitman accused of helping wage a gruesome turf war in central Mexico, a state prosecutor and Mexican media said on Friday.
The boy, known only as "El Ponchis," is believed to be working for the South Pacific cartel in Morelos state, outside Mexico City, and is one of a group of young teenagers who have already committed "terrible acts," Morelos State Prosecutor Pedro Luis Benitez told local radio.
"These minors are still not fully developed and so it is easy to influence them, to give them a gun, pretending it is plastic, that it is a game."
Benitez did not name the boy or give more details, but when asked directly about the teenage hitmen he said: "They're persuaded to carry out terrible acts; they don't realize what they are doing," he added.
Mexican daily La Razon said the boy is being paid $3,000 for each murder and is under the command of a little-known drug lord who heads the South Pacific cartel fighting the Beltran Leyva and La Familia gangs for control in southwestern Mexico.
Benitez said soldiers this week arrested a teenage boy and a pregnant teenage girl also believed to be working for the South Pacific cartel.
Monday, November 8, 2010
20 Killed Over Weekend in Mexican Border City
Nothing new here, Just a typical weekend in Mexico.
The Cartels are nothing short of Terrorists, Modeling themselves after Al Qaida or the Taliban.
Foxnews
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- At least 20 people were killed in drug-gang violence over the weekend in this northern Mexican border city, including seven found dead outside one house.
The seven men were believed to have been at a family party when they were gunned down Saturday night, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the attorney general's office in Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is located. Five were found dead in a car, and the other two were shot at the entrance of the home.
There have been several such massacres in Ciudad Juarez, a city held hostage by a nearly three-year turf battle between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Scores killed in Afghan anti drugs operation
The funny thing is that the Taliban are passionately against drug use !
Yet they run one of the Biggest drug trades in the world !
Hypocrites ? Yep , but they can justify it in their own minds !
BBC
More than 60 militants and drug traffickers have been killed in Helmand province during a three-day raid, the Afghan government says.
They said more than 16 tonnes of drugs were seized, together with weapons, explosives and suicide vests.
Afghan troops destroyed two sites at which drugs were produced.
They also freed several villagers who had been kidnapped by the militants for allegedly co-operating with the government.
Afghanistan produces 90% of the world's opium and the drugs trade is a key source of funding for the insurgency.
Coalition forces are battling militants in opium-producing areas of the south.
Last year the UN said corruption, lawlessness and uncontrolled borders result in only 2% of Afghan opiates being seized locally.
UN findings say an opium market worth $65bn (£39bn) funds global terrorism, caters to 15 million addicts and kills 100,000 people every year.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Update..Mexico prison gang fighting kills 29
At this rate someday there won't be anyone left to kill !
And notice how they never question how the inmates got the guns ? We are talking about assault rifles here !
BBC
A clash between rival gangs in a prison in Mexico's north-western state of Sinaloa has left 29 inmates dead.
The killings brought the number of dead on another day of apparent drug-related violence to more than 40.
In the western state of Michoacan, 12 police officers died in an ambush by suspected drug cartel gunmen.
Michoacan and Sinaloa are home to rival drug gangs that are fighting turf wars and battling security forces.
Officials said 18 inmates had died in the Mazatlan jail in Sinaloa when members of one gang armed with pistols and an assault rifle forced their way into a cell-block holding prisoners from a rival gang and began shooting.
Eleven others had been stabbed to death as fighting broke out in other parts of the prison, they said.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Mexico arrests Los Zetas gang 'leader' in Monterrey
As usual with an arrest like this , the rest of the gang goes berzerk on the streets , and the backlash will probably continue for awhile .
I'm Still not planning any trips to Mexico anytime soon !
BBC
An alleged leader of one of Mexico's most powerful and violent drug cartels has been arrested, security forces say.
Hector Raul Luna Luna is said to be the head of the Los Zetas gang in the north-eastern city of Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city.
Officials said on Wednesday he was captured by soldiers in a suburb of the city, which is a key industrial hub.
In response, gunmen hijacked cars and temporarily set up at least 10 roadblocks in Monterrey.
Convoys of armed men also attacked police stations, according to local reports.
The Ministry of Defence said Hector Raul Luna Luna was responsible for assaults on Mexican soldiers and a 2008 failed grenade attack on the US consulate in Monterrey, the Associated Press reports.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Gunmen kill more than 20 in Juárez
Oh the Mess that is Jaurez !
It is not even a shock anymore to Hear about these Killings , it is just everyday life in Mexico !
El Paso Times
JUAREZ -- Gunmen killed more than 20 people -- eight in one slaying -- on Wednesday in one of the bloodiest days of the year.
There were multiple shootings outside a nightclub, outside a convenience store and outside an elementary school as the violence flared up with fury.
Juárez police reported shootings as the night wore on, but it was not immediately known how many were dead. One news outlet dubbed the event "Black Wednesday."
More than 40 homicides have occurred since Monday despite a heavy presence of federal police and soldiers in the city.
Juárez Mayor José Reyes Ferriz said in a statement that the mass attacks were due to the worsening of a war between gangs linked to organize crime.
The most recent massacre involved the deaths of four young men in a car outside a convenience store off Cuatro Siglos boulevard, which runs parallel to the border highway in El Paso.
The day's single largest death toll was a shooting outside the Aristos bar near downtown.
The bloody bodies of eight men lay outside the bar amid bullet casings and glass beer bottles about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The mayor said Aristos closed about 2 a.m., and the eight men had been outside the bar when the shooting happened. All of them were shot in the head, officials said.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Drug gangs kill nine in Honduras as violence grows
Another day in Mexico .
(Reuters) -
Suspected drug hitmen killed nine people in Tegucigalpa in one of the deadliest attacks in Honduras since Mexican drug kingpins escalated their war over smuggling routes, police said on Sunday.
Masked men with automatic weapons opened fire in the street in a poor area of the Honduran capital on Saturday night and then burst into two houses, killing seven men and two women, police said. Several bodies lay in the street, oozing blood, police said.
"These deaths were provoked by territorial disputes between drug traffickers," Tegucigalpa's police chief Mario Chamorro told reporters.
Since last year, drug violence has been rising in Honduras, a key transit route for Colombian cocaine heading to the United States, as powerful Mexican cartels fight over smuggling corridors through Mexico and Central America.
Some 1,600 people died in drug violence in Honduras in 2009. Honduran authorities say Mexico's top trafficker, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, is trying to crush rivals from the ruthless Gulf cartel from northeastern Mexico who are also fighting for control in Central America.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Border Fence Under Renewed Fire After Rancher Killing
A simple solution , Build the Fence anyway !
Then patrol it with more humans , but at least hire ones who are not afraid to use their guns when needed .
And maybe a new Border Patrol Policy to go along with everything here ...When you are assaulted with bullets or rocks be sure to shoot who is doing the assaulting no matter where they stand !
Foxnews
The killing of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz allegedly by an illegal immigrant has some critics pointing out that hundreds of miles of U.S.-Mexico border fencing isn't even high enough to stop a person on foot.
Of the 646 miles of barriers currently constructed along the 2,000-mile southern border of the United States, 300 miles are vehicle barriers, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That means they're meant to keep out cars and trucks, but aren't high enough to keep out people crossing the border illegally on foot.
Fencing in place just south of the Krentz family ranch in southeastern Arizona is exactly that kind of vehicle barrier, plus there's a sizable gap in the fence nearby.
Residents and officials say the security barrier is simply ineffective, and that the killing last month is shining a light on the problem.
Rancher Wendy Glenn, Krentz's longtime friend and neighbor who heard the man's last radio transmission to his brother, said she has roughly 4 miles of border fence along Malpai Ranch. The "wildlife-friendly" barrier -- one that allows large animals and determined people to pass through freely -- ranges from large Normandy-style "X" crosses to standard posts and rails, topping off at no more than six feet high, she said.
"It doesn't keep any people out," Glenn told FoxNews.com on Monday. "We don't want any more fence here. We want more people on the border. No matter what they put in, they're going to tunnel under, cut through, or use ladders. We don't need that."
Glenn characterized the border fence as a "big waste of money" and called for increased federal presence along the remote areas, as well increased communication among law enforcement agencies.
Friday, April 2, 2010
18 gunmen die in coordinated attack on two army bases in Mexico
Soldiers also seized 54 rifles, 61 hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, eight homemade explosive devices and six bulletproofed vehicles used by the attackers.
Mexico's northern states are under siege from the escalating violence involving drug gangs.
And as if our Problems of illegal immigration and border violence are not enough , the Mexican Military are in a major battle with the Cartels .
The Above description is from one day in one small area of Mexico !
El Paso Times
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico -- Dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently coordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers.
The attempts to blockade soldiers inside their bases - part of seven near-simultaneous attacks across two northern states - appeared to mark a serious escalation in Mexico's drug war, in which cartel gunmen attacked in unit-size forces armed with bulletproof vehicles, dozens of hand grenades and assault rifles.
While drug gunmen frequently shoot at soldiers on patrol, they seldom target army bases, and even more rarely attack in the force displayed during the confrontations Tuesday in the border states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon - areas that have seen a surge of bloodshed in recent months.
The violence mainly involves a fight between the Gulf cartel and its former allies, the Zetas, a gang of hit men. The cartel - which has apparently formed an alliance with other cartels seeking to exterminate the Zetas - has been warning people in the region with a series of banners and e-mails that the conflict would get worse over the next two to three months.
Gunmen staged seven separate attacks on the army, including three blockades, Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said Wednesday. He called the attacks "desperate reactions by criminal gangs to the progress being made by federal authorities" against Mexico's drug cartels.
