Pato
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Drug "turf war" lives on - 21 dead near border
Narco-Army clash kills 21 near border
BY JULIAN CARDONA
Reuters
CIUDAD JUAREZ - Soldiers fought gun battles with drug cartel hit men near the U.S. border on Tuesday after gangsters abducted local police in violence
that killed 21 people, including an Army sergeant.
Soldiers pursued the hit men through freezing desert in the northern state of Chihuahua after they dragged nine people, including some police, out of
houses and shot six of them at a ranch early Tuesday, the Army said.
Heavily armed soldiers burst into the ranch, near the Texan border, and fatally shot several of the hit men, later chasing another group by helicopter
before killing them, too, Army spokesman Enrique Torres said from the area.
"The bodies were strewn across the desert outside the nearby town of Vi-lla Ahumada," Torres said.
Residents in Villa Ahumada, a cattle ranching community in the state, said they saw a convoy of sport utility vehicles ride through the snow-covered
town before dawn on Tuesday, and several people were abducted from their homes. Some people later heard shots in the countryside.
"People are really afraid of a revenge attack by hit men after this violence," a local journalist who asked not to be named told Reuters.
Villa Ahumada, a town of 1,500 people, was virtually taken over by drug cartels last year when gangs killed two consecutive police chiefs and two
officers. The rest of the 20-member force resigned in fear, forcing the Army to take over for months until the town was able to recruit new officers.
The town´s mayor, Fidel Chávez, fled to the state capital for his own safety.
More than 2,000 of the more than 6,000 drug war deaths recorded last year were in Chihuahua.
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rpleger
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Civil War in Chihuahua...Baja Norte is next 
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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vandenberg
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Any Nomads up for a "Duck hunt" 
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Pato
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Any Nomads up for a "Duck hunt" |
Well Sir, some people around here seem to have a bit more patience (or is it respect ?) for the "crusties" than others.
I'm sure you will be able to relate with this poor soul (not his victims of course). 
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Chuch_shooter_gunning_for_libe...
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Bajahowodd
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Vestiges of the wild, wild West that this nation seemingly can't get over.
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Bajajack
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Hey, it's mexico and really none of our business.
\"take what you can, give nothing back!\"
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the
American people.\'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
We can have no \"50-50\" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
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BAJACAT
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Sorry Pato but the thread is not Baja Related, maybe it should be in the off topic section, but thanks anyways..
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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Bajahowodd
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Right. Narco-terrorism and the fight against it is not Baja related. Thanks for the tip.
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The Gull
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THIS IS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM - PLEASE POST IT ON THE AMERICAN NOMAD BOARD.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Bajahowodd
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Do you have the url for American Nomad??
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The Gull
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Scroll down on the site and check out the American Virgin.
http://www.tailtap.com/americannomaddecks.html
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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