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Santiago
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Shootout in TJ last night?
Saw this on Yahoo this morning.
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle near the U.S. border on
Saturday that was one of the bloodiest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war.
Rival factions of the local Arellano Felix drug cartel in Tijuana on the Mexico-California border fought each other with rifles and machine guns in
the early hours of the morning, police said.
The bodies lay in pools of blood, strewn along a road on the city's eastern limits, surrounded by hundreds of bullet casings. Many of the victims'
faces were destroyed.
"By the way this happened and the guns used, we believe the men are from the same cartel, the Arellano Felix gang," said a senior police officer in
Tijuana who declined to be named.
Two of the dead are believed to be senior hitmen for the Arellano Felix cartel and were identified by the large gold rings on their fingers. The rings
carried the icon of Saint Death, a ghoulish grim reaper figure that gangsters believe protects them, police said.
Officials also found police helmets and body armor that the two hitmen used for protection.
Six men were arrested but the remaining survivors escaped, the office said.
A source close to the Tijuana mayor's office said local authorities had requested more troops for the city bordering San Diego, California, and that
they could arrive this weekend.
President Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of troops to Tijuana and Baja California state on Mexico's Pacific coast since taking office in December
2006. Some 25,000 soldiers and federal police are deployed to fight cartels in drug hot spots across Mexico.
The army in Tijuana said it was on high alert for reprisals against soldiers and federal police following the shootout and the ensuing arrest.
"The risk of attacks against our agents after an event like this is extremely high," said Lt. Col Julian Leyzaola, Tijuana's police chief.
The Arellano Felix gang was long the dominant drug-trafficking organization in Tijuana, smuggling drugs into California. Recently the group has been
under attack from a rival gang from the Pacific state of Sinaloa, led by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
Some 190 people have been killed in Tijuana so far this year. In 2007, there were more than 2,500 drug killings across Mexico and there have been more
than 900 this year.
(Writing by Robin Emmott; Editing by Bill Trott)
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surfer jim
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As long as no outsiders are hurt...this could be considered "good news"....
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The Gull
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Drug lords killing drug lords near Otay. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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oldlady
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When I lived in New York, such Mafia activities were referred to as waste management. Yep, "Good News"!
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David K
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NO, NOT GOOD NEWS!
Did you guys see these lines?:
The army in Tijuana said it was on high alert for reprisals against soldiers and federal police following the shootout and the ensuing arrest.
"The risk of attacks against our agents after an event like this is extremely high," said Lt. Col Julian Leyzaola, Tijuana's police chief.
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The Gull
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C'mon David, that is why the soldiers have guns...to use them on drug lords and gang members. I say line them up and empty your clips.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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oldlady
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I agree with Gull. The heightened risk is a heightened opportunity to waste those suckers en masse.
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David K
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Oh sure... if they can line them all up at the same time... We can only hope!
This is how two great people I knew were murdered in Tijuana (2006)... they had families... big families... This is messed up, is all I can say!
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oldlady
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And a little prayer that your step son and his Unit will be safe and successful!
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DENNIS
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Good. Let the war begin. That's the only way this problem will be resolved.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Good. Let the war begin. That's the only way this problem will be resolved. |
Unfortunately the innocent get caught in the crossfire...
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaWarrior
Unfortunately the innocent get caught in the crossfire... |
That is the bad part, for sure but, they're getting it anyway. Mexico has an insurgency and Mexico needs a war to eradicate the enemy. Let full
scale war begin. Get it over with otherwise, it will go on indefinitly.
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i wonder how many of those who sing the praises of war have actually participated in one?
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Keri
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Hose A my prayers are with your stepson also,k
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13 dead, 9 wounded and all of them drug scum... pretty lucky, huh? They need to guard the morgue better this time.
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If only we could reduce the demand for drugs in the USA and stop the flow of guns into Mexico. I was glad to read recently of a large gun bust
occurring in Arizona-Mexico was happy.
The trouble with turf wars between drug gangs is that the wars do kill innocent people and law enforcement personel.
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Baja Bernie
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Balance????
AP..Chicago police put on show of force in effort to deter wave of shootings. Three dozen (36) shootings left nine people dead last weekend.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Baja Bernie
AP..Chicago police put on show of force in effort to deter wave of shootings. Three dozen (36) shootings left nine people dead last weekend.
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How much of this was domestic violence? I honestly dont know but am asking.
There IS a difference. Many of us can say with pretty good certainty that we wont be a victim of domestic violence (except around March Madness, of
course). But we could become a victim of the type of random violence that TJ has been seeing.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bacquito
If only we could reduce the demand for drugs in the USA and stop the flow of guns into Mexico. |
Maybe too late on the gun issue. They already have them and with proper care, they'll last a long time. It would be more realistic if we stopped
making bullets.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
Rival factions of the local Arellano Felix drug cartel in Tijuana on the Mexico-California border fought each other with rifles and machine guns in
the early hours of the morning, police said.
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The army in Tijuana said it was on high alert for reprisals against soldiers and federal police following the shootout and the ensuing arrest.
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Somehow I don't get the relevance of these statements. If the shootout was just between the cartels own factions, why would that result in reprisals
against the cops, unless they were somehow involved in the trade.
[Edited on 4-27-2008 by vandenberg]
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