Expert Says Beheadings in U.S. Look Like Work of Cartels. Three beheadings in two different states and they happened here in the United States, not Mexico. Former DEA supervisor Phil Jordan says all three beheadings have cartel written all over them. They happened in Arizona and Oklahoma in the past year. A murder mystery is now unraveling on a stretch of North Reservation Road in Tucson, Ariz. County workers found a headless man lying on the side of the road Jan. 6. "It would lead me to believe the message wanted to be sent.
Jordan says the cartels are getting bolder in carrying out their beheadings across the border. "They don't have any borders," says Jordan. More than 600 miles from the border, a 19-year-old human trafficking victim was found beheaded in Oklahoma. "People know if they get on the wrong side of the fence, they'll be dealt with," says Jordan. The police chief in the area says two men running the trafficking ring killed Saunders to send a message to the other victims. "Definitely a cartel hit," says Jordan. One Mexican State Bordering The US Was Deadlier Than All of Afghanistan Last Year. More than 47,000 people have been killed in drug violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown against drug cartels. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) (CNSNews.com) – Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan.
According to the Mexican government, from January through September 2011 2,276 deaths were recorded in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico. A Nov. 2011 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report states that over nearly the same period – January through October 2011 – 2,177 civilians were killed in Afghanistan, where a U.S. -led war against the Taliban is underway.
It did not provide a breakdown of responsibility for that period, but said that in 2010, 75 percent of civilian deaths were attributed to the Taliban and other “anti-government elements.” Video: U.S. Special Ops Team Crosses the Border into Mexico; Escorted by Mexican Military. Browse > Home / Americas, Featured / Video: U.S. Special Ops Team Crosses the Border into Mexico; Escorted by Mexican Military Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info Last week, a U.S. special operations team was seen crossing the border from Brownsville, Texas into Matamoros, Mexico.
Eyewitness reports mention that the U.S. convoy consisted of two or perhaps three SUV’s with what appeared to be armed military personnel onboard. The Mexican military waited on the Matamoros side of the border, and once the U.S. team crossed into Mexico, they escorted them to a nearby military base. The Mexican military and the local police in Matamoros apparently established a route to escort the Americans because traffic cops were placed ahead of time in order to quickly get the convoy through Avenida Sexta (Sixth Avenue). A helicopter followed the convoy from the U.S. side of the border until it reached the Mexican military base. Like this: Like Loading... Mexican Cartels Seek Recruits Among California Latinos. More than 5,000 young people in San Diego, most of them Hispanics accused of being involved in street gangs, have been held in confinement by the city's corrections system during the past two years.
Most of the crimes are associated with assaults, robbery, drug trafficking or consumption, since according to the authorities, being near the border also makes the youths easy targets for Mexican cartels that recruit them to smuggle drugs. Pedro Ríos, an activist with the San Diego office of the American Friends Service Committee, told Efe on Tuesday that the situation is particularly prevalent at high schools in the southern part of the county, which is fertile terrain for recruiting U.S.
-born Hispanics who can cross the border with little difficulty. According to SANDAG, among the youths interviewed in San Diego County detention facilities, 11 percent said that at some time they have been asked to transport drugs over the border, with their first crossing at the average age of 14. 13 killed, 8 at funeral, in violent Mexico state. Texas Ranchers Using AK47s to Defend Against Cartel Invaders. » 1.4 MILLION Gang Members And More Pour Into The United States Every Single Day Alex Jones.
The American Dream January 21, 2012 A vast army of heavily armed criminals has embedded itself in every major city in the United States. In fact, nearly every community in America is now affected by these thugs. Drugs, theft and brutal violence are all part of the every day lifestyle of the members of this army. They aggressively recruit our young people and floods of illegal immigrants are joining their ranks. Once civil unrest erupts in America, they will go on a crime spree that will be absolutely unprecedented and they will burn large areas of some U.S. cities to the ground. The FBI tells us that there are now 1.4 million gang members involved in the 33,000 different gangs that are active inside the United States. In many areas of America today, families live behind windows that have bars on them and they won’t ever go out at night because it is just too dangerous. Meanwhile, criminal gangs are thriving.
You have probably heard of some of the largest of these gangs. Of course not. In Focus: Mexico Drug War, Five Years Later. Posted Dec 21, 2011 Share This Gallery inShare19 A graphic picture is emerging in Mexico five years after President Felipe Calderon launched his all-out assault on organized crime: Mass killings as cartels fight each other for territory and civilians caught in the violence; police unable to prevent the mayhem or to investigate the aftermath.
The government needed to act decisively, he said, to prevent organized crime from taking over the country. Over the next five years, he deployed 45,000 troops, made major hits on the leadership of at least five cartels and spent nearly $46 billion fighting organized crime, his defining domestic policy. Since then, chaos has exploded on the ground in once-quiet places across the country, including Veracruz. As authorities cracked down in one spot, violence moved to another. When cartel leaders were arrested, the gangs dissolved into more violent splinter groups fighting in areas where corrupt local authorities did not fight back. Radio Zeta: How Mexico's Drug Cartels Stay Networked | Danger Room. Arranging drug sales on a cellphone, cryptic email or even a pager? That’s strictly for the small-time dealer. If you’re a Mexican drug cartel, you have your own radio network. Since 2006, the cartels have maintained an encrypted DIY radio network that stretches across nearly all 31 Mexican states, even down south into Guatemala.
The communications infrastructure of the narco-gangs that have turned Mexico into a gangster’s paradise consists of “professional-grade” radio antennas, signal relays and simple handheld radios that cost “millions of dollars” — and which the Mexican authorities haven’t been able to shut down. If it sounds like a military-grade communications apparatus, it should. The notorious Zetas, formerly the enforcers for the Gulf Cartel and now its chief rival, were born out of Mexican Special Forces. But the Zetas aren’t stupid enough to make big deals over a radio frequency, even an encrypted one. Here’s how it works, according to a fascinating Associated Press piece.
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