Monday, March 2, 2009

U.S. rattled as Mexico drug war bleeds over border


This is starting to develop into a big story. Mexico is becoming increasingly unstable. U.S. military forces may be deployed on the border. This may get very ugly.-Lou

U.S. rattled as Mexico drug war bleeds over border

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Hit men dressed in fake police tactical gear burst into a home in Phoenix, rake it with gunfire and execute a man.
Armed kidnappers snatch victims from cars and even a local shopping mall across the Phoenix valley for ransom, turning the sun-baked city into the "kidnap capital" of the United States.

Violence of this kind is common in Mexico where drug cartel abductions and executions are a daily feature of a raging drug war that claimed 6,000 lives south of the border last year.

But U.S. authorities now fear that violent crime is beginning to bleed over the porous Mexico border and take hold here.

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