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And probably Billy boy too.
Arizona's anti-imigration law...
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Babagounj
Strength through joy
Secret graves, nameless dead haunt Durango
Secret graves, nameless dead haunt Mexican city
Durango finds it’s now in the center of gangs’ carnage
By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
DURANGO, Mexico — For weeks now, searchers have been pulling desiccated bones and flesh from the grudging dirt of empty lots and backyard gardens in this arid city.
At least 226 bodies, or parts of them, have been gathered so far, including eight reportedly unearthed Thursday from a new grave, discovered in the backyard of a house in an upper middle class neighborhood near Durango’s modern shopping mall.
The harvest from the clandestine graves here already has surpassed the discoveries in San Fernando, the farm town near the South Texas border whose own mass tombs were uncovered last month. And with hundreds, perhaps thousands, still missing in Durango and surrounding states, the hunt seems far from done.
“This was a surprise even for us,” said Jorge-Antonio Santiago, secretary general of Durango state’s human rights commission, which keeps a partial tally of the battered, dead and vanished of the gang criminal carnage flaying much of northern Mexico. “We had no idea of anything of this magnitude.”
Only one of the Durango bodies has been identified so far – and just three of 183 in San Fernando. Most of the others may never be. They, like as many as 10,000 people gone missing in four years of Mexico’s hyper-carnage, will remain known but to God.
Secret graves, nameless dead haunt Mexican city
Durango finds it’s now in the center of gangs’ carnage
By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
DURANGO, Mexico — For weeks now, searchers have been pulling desiccated bones and flesh from the grudging dirt of empty lots and backyard gardens in this arid city.
At least 226 bodies, or parts of them, have been gathered so far, including eight reportedly unearthed Thursday from a new grave, discovered in the backyard of a house in an upper middle class neighborhood near Durango’s modern shopping mall.
The harvest from the clandestine graves here already has surpassed the discoveries in San Fernando, the farm town near the South Texas border whose own mass tombs were uncovered last month. And with hundreds, perhaps thousands, still missing in Durango and surrounding states, the hunt seems far from done.
“This was a surprise even for us,” said Jorge-Antonio Santiago, secretary general of Durango state’s human rights commission, which keeps a partial tally of the battered, dead and vanished of the gang criminal carnage flaying much of northern Mexico. “We had no idea of anything of this magnitude.”
Only one of the Durango bodies has been identified so far – and just three of 183 in San Fernando. Most of the others may never be. They, like as many as 10,000 people gone missing in four years of Mexico’s hyper-carnage, will remain known but to God.
This has been going on for decades Baba. This is nothing new other than media hype to scare you into fearing mexicans.
Peace,
Babagounj
Strength through joy
DEA refuses to hand over weapons to ATF
DEA refuses to hand over weapons to ATF
By Lisa Leigh Kelly,
KPHO-TV/Phoenix
PHOENIX (KOLD/KPHO) – A gunrunning sting that came under scrutiny following the death of a Border Patrol Agent south of Tucson is causing a rift between government agencies.
The Drug Enforcement Agency is refusing to turn over a stash of assault rifles seized during a bust in Phoenix last month. This was after finding out at least one of those guns were part of that sting, orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
It was known as the “Fast and Furious” program — where the ATF allowed its own assault weapons to be sold on the streets, in the hopes of tracking them as they passed through the hands of straw buyers and middle-men. The idea was to gain intelligence, and take down a big-time Mexican cartel.
Sounds like a smart program. I would like to know what kind of tracking device they use to keep track of the weapon.
trplnkl
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That's the problem with the "program", there was no tracking.
How do you know?
trplnkl
555
uhhhh, because they admitted there was none.
trplnkl
555
I guess this article was the only thing mentioned on this subject?
The director(I think that was his tittle) admitted the was no official tracking in an interview. Regardless, if there was tracking it didn't work to dang well, did it.
I've heard very little on any of this. I will retract my previous statement and say good concept, bad planning, bad execution. Like an advertising agency coming up with "We love logistics."
trplnkl
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Except, as far as I know, "we love logistics" didn't get anyone killed.
Well, I won't comment on how UPS handles it's internal affairs, but it is still too early to come to that conclusion.
trplnkl
555
You may have a point, but I did say "as far as I know".
