turtleandtoad
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Gang Feds
MEXICO CITY -- Eleven federal agents were charged with kidnapping and murder for picking up four alleged drug hit men and possibly helping kill them,
the Mexican attorney general's office said Thursday.
At least one of the presumed hit men was shot in the head, a killing recorded on a homemade DVD, excerpts of which were published Thursday on the Web
sites of the Kitsap Sun and The Dallas Morning News.
Mexico's top anti-drug prosecutor, Jose Luis Vasconcelos, said the DVD was likely to spark a new wave of violence among traffickers looking to settle
personal scores. The DVD killing probably was carried out as part of a dispute by rival drug gangs, Vasconcelos said.
Mexican officials said Thursday that they've known about the DVD for months. The men shown on the video are purported hit men for the Gulf cartel.
Jose Luis Manjarrez, spokesman for the attorney general's office, said authorities were investigating who made the DVD, as well as allegations by the
men that they received protection from Mexican security forces.
"The authorities knew about this video months ago," Manjarrez said.
Manjarrez said that details on the DVD, like the discussion of the April killing of radio reporter Dolores Garcia Escamilla in northern Mexico, lend
credence to its authenticity.
Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar declined to elaborate on the investigation.
"We do have information on the video. The attorney general's office is handling this case," he said.
Both newspapers posted excerpts of the DVD on their Web sites Thursday, but neither showed the shooting.
Two copies of the DVD, time-stamped May 16, were sent anonymously to Scott Ware, editor of the Kitsap Sun, last month. The Sun provided a copy to the
Morning News after determining that the Dallas newspaper's Mexico City bureau had reported extensively on Garcia's death.
In the six weeks since then, the two newspapers have worked to make sense of the video, resulting in Thursday's in-depth report from Mexico City by
Alfredo Corchado and Lennox Samuels. The Sun also provided a copy to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Reporters at the Kitsap Sun still are working to establish why the video was sent to Bremerton, and apparently not to other U.S. newspapers
And they made a DVD of the whole thing Not the sharpest knife in the drawer,
are they!
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bugdude
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Aqu? es parte del DVD fijado por el Dallas Morning News:
Est? en espa?ol.
http://www.dallasnews.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?titl...
Copy and paste ALL of the URL above to your browser.
[Edited on 11/12/2005 by bugdude]
[Edited on 12-3-2005 by BajaNomad]
A man\'s reach should exceed his grasp - or what\'s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
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Ken Cooke
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Legalization of Marijuana in this country would take every ounce of power away from those lunatics.
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turtleandtoad
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2003 Southwest Border seizures;
Cocaine 15,927 Kg
Heroin 291.5 Kg
Marijuana 1,173,128 Kg
Methamphetamine 1,733 Kg
Source
National Drug Intelligence Center
National Drug Threat Assessment 2005 Summary Report
February 2005
UNCLASSIFIED
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs11/13846/cocaine.htm
[Edited on 12-3-2005 by turtleandtoad]
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roverdude
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Now if that could be broken down by dollars. That would be interesting.
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turtleandtoad
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OK, Here you go (it took me a few minutes to find the street values)
Drug Kg lb price/lb total
Cocaine 15,927 35113.03 $10,410.00 $365,526,633.58
Heroin 291.5 642.65 $68,965.00 $44,320,190.33
Marijuana 1,173,128 2586304.87 $99.00 $256,044,182.20
Methamphetamine 1,733 3820.61 $12,800.00 $48,903,827.34
Sorry about it being hard to read, I haven't figured out the "List" function yet
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vandenberg
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Legalize mary jane.
Tried in Holland. Can buy the chit anywhere. How come they still discover illegal pot growing nurseries daily and distroy them??
And besides that, they have a runaway hard drug problem. Maybe Singapore has the right beginning of a solution ??
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