Loboron
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Tijuana airport shooting
Truck crashes into Tijuana airport terminal after driver killed by gunmen
By Luis Perez
ASSOCIATED PRESS
7:45 p.m. January 30, 2008
TIJUANA, Mexico – Gunmen chased a pickup truck into Tijuana's international airport on Wednesday, firing at and killing the driver, whose vehicle
crashed through the windows of the terminal and came to rest near a security check point.
Two women riding with the victim were wounded and the airport's operations were briefly interrupted, the Baja California state attorney general's
office reported. The shooting occurred in the early morning when few people were at the terminal.
The gunmen fired into the pickup as it lay inside the airport lobby to make sure the driver was dead. They fled in another vehicle. Police said the
driver had called an emergency number earlier to say he was being chased, but the call cut off. No arrests have been announced.
There was no immediate information on a motive in the attack, but Tijuana has been plagued in recent months by a spate of shootouts and killings of
police, apparently involving gangs and drug traffickers.
Also Wednesday, the attorney general's office reported that the unidentified bodies of three men – two of whom had their hands bound and showed signs
of torture – were found dumped in a vacant lot in Playas de Rosarito, near Tijuana.
It was the same spot where the bullet-riddled bodies of a Tijuana police official and another man were found in early January.
Local police in Playas de Rosarito, a city of 130,000, were forced to surrender their weapons last month for testing to determine links to any crimes.
Armed state and federal agents are patrolling the city.
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David K
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Yesterday?!! Boy, they sure getting things under control... NOT!! 
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DENNIS
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The only time they have it under control is between incidents. I wonder what kind of info the authorities gleaned from the scumbags they took to DF.
Maybe they took them for a session of surfboarding instead of waterboarding. A couple of weeks on Los Muertos beach in Puerto Vallarta would make
anybody spill the frijoles.
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BAJACAT
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Sounds to me like a normal day in TJ,
stick them up Nomads!!!
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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bajaguy
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Well, I thought you couldn't have guns in an airport???
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DENNIS
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Some years back, I was in the lobby of the TJ airport at the gift shop and they sold stun-guns. That was before the world fell apart.
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capt. mike
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not to worry..........it was just a couple who were trying to flee me....i insisted they hop aboard for a cruise south and they took one look at me
and my bird and fled. 
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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HotSchott
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Dark Humor.
I just keep wondering what will happen if this stuff spills over into San Diego on a large scale. The only difference here is I am armed better than
most of them. What a shame for Baja to have to endure so much violence. The more people become conditioned to everyday violence, the less likely
they will ever get rid of it.
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