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Alarming Sensitive U.S. government report on violence in Mexico, the highest level of the alert should be issued travel to Mexico, by Michael Webster Investigative, reporter. 21st April 2008 19.00 Re-printed clock 8th April 2009 at 6:00 PM PST. The Laguna Journal has a number of documents listing the horrors happening just south of the border and get the U.S. side. It shows what Americans can be exposed to Mexico. The information is as a warning to law enforcement and not for the eyes of citizens who are traveling out of control in Mexico. The picture is designed for the application of Mexican law, not the drug cartels to terrorist beheading tactics and other tactics terrible. Mexican drug cartels are ordering decapitations blind folding and shoot rollover victims to before. Cartels are sending a deterrent message to Mexican President Felipe Calderon Administration by adopting methods of intimidation made notorious by terrorist groups in the Middle East. Dozens of people have been decapitated in Mexico so far this year, stuck with heads on fence posts, found in garbage bags and heads to a nightclub dance floor for all to see thrown. Dozens of U.S. citizens were kidnapped, taken hostage and killed by their captors in Mexico and in many cases still unresolved. In addition, continue to be new cases of disappearances and abductions for ransom are no high alert to be notified was issued to protect Americans against this world class violence. The question remains, why not President George Bush ordered the State Department to the alert level in the highest regard travel to Mexico for the many dangers that face the Americans to issue travel to Mexico today. While the U.S. president met the leaders of Canada and Mexico today, a day in New Orleans the dangers for American travelers, there are more. The president issued no travel warning is to risk American lives. The United Nations, in a survey of security and the criminalization of 38 countries found that excessive Mexico ranked number one in the category “violent crime” in the use of firearms and violence. Mexico reached even in the less developed countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. Until recently, Colombia holds the number one county of kidnapping. Even the American army was on the strips give Mexico because of the increasing violence. U.S. military say they have stopped issuing passes to soldiers who want to travel across the border into Mexico. “If it’s not safe for the American soldiers, it is dangerous for other Americans.” Said, John Lutes, in the border city of El Paso, Texas born and served in the Army. Americans have been kidnapped, imprisoned and killed in Mexico SENSITIVE classified internal law enforcement document shows, Mexico is now considered the number one in Latin America for kidnappings. The government knows that 1000 will find victims of violent kidnappings taking place since 2005, of these 43 died in captivity, as the British, who ascribed the world leader in kidnappings and other violent drug dealers have been drug and the hijackers. Who are often the same people who have crossed the border into the United States cities, which are corridors for smuggling the drug cartels, Mexican routes esp. Tijuana / San Diego, Juarez / El Paso Laredo / McAllen, Nogales / Nogales, Palomus / Columbus and other cities in the United States and Mexican border cities. The document, which were offensive to many on the finding that 50 cross-border kidnappings in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas collected with an unknown number of incidents is reported. The kidnappings took place in visible public places of the victims were beaten, forced to into vehicles and taken over the US-Mexican border, where the beating continued, so friends and family members of victims are contacted to extort money. Often, after payment, victims are dumped and left to find their own way home, or just disappear altogether. The document warns U.S. citizens or Mexican nationals residing in the United States they are vulnerable to kidnappings of Allied teams to the elimination of Mexico or the United States. The kidnapping of more than gang behavior, the finer they hone their skills. Finally, they graduate to higher-value targets in the communities for the economy. The report says: “Until a prominent U.S. citizen is abducted, the problem is not a lot of attention in the media or the public.” The sensitive internal document of law enforcement with horrendous image projection was that estimated that 2000-3100 people victims of drug crime, killings in Mexico in 2006 and the authorities after all the numbers expected in 2007, the number of deaths in 2006 may exceed the current ratio of murders and yet the figures for the year 2008 they predict will be even greater. About 100 of those victims were members of the armed forces of the law or other government officials. This number should be much higher this year. He also stresses that took place between January-July 2007 in Mexico: 1200 + performances drug trafficking-related … … occurred with at least 70 + in the state of Sonora … more in Hermosillo, an ancient city of truce “between traffickers in Sinaloa / Gulf DTO organizations. An unknown – but significant – of executions continues in the states of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas and Chihuahua, Baja California Norte, Tabasco, Guerrero, Michoacán, Veracruz, Sinaloa occur, Nayarit, Chiapas and Coahuila. All the Mexican states of many experienced man law enforcement authorities as well as several kidnappings occurring regularly. On 7/20/2007, there were 91 kidnappings in Tijuana alone since only the first of the year. In September, two days in July . Internal Affairs Officer safety and the types of targeted violence were revealed about the incident, assessed, there was a random kidnapping for ransom for the release there were random kidnappings for ransom or information through torture with Non-press body for shock or acid / liquor “Pozole” disposal of dead bodies by in sealed barrels filled with acid and caustic soda. Others have been kidnapped in order to obtain information through torture, then killed, or require removal of tax collectors “- for default. Kidnapping enemies as warnings to the government and others have been registered with specific messages is appropriate. the kidnapping and murder of his rivals / murders. Structures of the kidnapping gangs are former or current officers of law enforcement work as a team member with selective gangs, former drug dealer in the mid-level resort to kidnappings due to declining access to drugs and violence with the war, high drug cartel in Mexico combined. Others are deprived of their rights or independent teams acting randomly. Others are national or international gangs, and other teams with former deserters trained in extractions, assassinations and assaults or gang-national service in the United States affiliated hired several Mexican drug cartel as an independent team to kidnap murder contract. evaluate methods and types of violence to murder victims were: Physical beating, torture, release on the road or on the street or body much dumped torture won, tooth extraction, removal of limbs, death by torture, strangulation, single shot in the head and / or more shots in the head and body. Other tactics were same as above the head and / or face fully or partially with tape or wrappings or blind folds head wound. Antibodies often by the alternate “Pozole” method of disposal. Many were beheaded with or without written messages on bodies or in vehicles or suspension bridges. Many victims are kidnapped, detained in prison while deplorable, such as metal cages in the so-called safe houses. Many police officers have the Mexican cartels for money or in some cases they are when they are not with the cartels they be victims of this terror. Many of the weapons of cash together, was removed and confiscated by the Mexican authorities for the largest in the country by the United States or smuggled from Russia and China. Attention is, the test image below, many find the text offensive and macabre image: Sources: INTERNAL officer safety issues at the border south of kidnappings and narco-violence is an SD-Lecce MR INTELLIGENCE perspective. CHARLTON LEE Intelligence Specialist Senior Research-San Diego DEA Intelligence Group I, 858th 616th LECCE Team SD 4174 7th August 2007, part of the data presented here were from various U.S. and Mexican authorities and parts of publications receive interest on selective media Mexican new translations of Mr. James Woerner, Office of San Diego County Sheriff’s. Mr. Woerner at the time of writing this article, the San Diego Law Enforcement Center has been providing coordination. Further data are included in the documentation of other publicly available sources, and unclassified but sensitive documents, the government at the desk. Warning Warning Warning Warning are, have contributed before consideration of the bottom photo the many photos of the offensive and terrible: Mexican drug cartels using terrorist beheading tactics. Photo: 1 Five severed heads on the dance floor in Mexico 2 .. Two bodies of men thrown doused with gasoline and burned .. 3 A man and a woman fired several times Gangland style. 4th The man shot and stabbed repeatedly. 5th Two men who were executed by gunshot wounds in the head and body repeatedly. Two Two
BY MICHAEL Webster: Investigative Reporter 12th October 2008 13.00 clock PDT The war on drugs a war on terrorism and the war against terrorism is a war against drugs. They are inter-related and law enforcement believes they are inseparable. The Taliban and Al Qaeda, the production of opium and heroin in Afghanistan and the distribution of these drugs by ships, aircraft and mules in Iraq, Turkey, Europe and Mexico to help raise money. The South American countries like Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia is growing, production and distribution of cocaine to Mexican drug cartels, which in turn have Mexican and American gangs distribution in the U.S., Europe and other countries around the world. According to Michael A. Braun, DEA Chief of Operations, says that drug trafficking and the Middle East terrorist groups are a nexus “Growing Up”. It shows that there is a connection between growing international drug trafficking and international terrorism. Mr. Braun believes it is a new hybrid organization funded by international drug trafficking and terrorism dedicated. As indicated in the Laguna Journal Mexican and American gangs expand their sphere of influence here and around the world. Many gangs are much more sophisticated now days and are similarly well-trained military units and multi-national companies and so much more of a threat to law enforcement and many people are run over the world. American and Mexican gangs are forging illegal business relations with other gangs in the U.S. and in Mexico and Afghanistan seeking more lucrative drug markets. These alliances make them much more dangerous and this organization is much more threatening. Most American gangs buy drugs or the facade of the new alliances from as far away as Afghanistan where drug transactions and the sale of all places. This proliferation and gangs adoption of terrorist tactics in the world and is increasingly accompanied by beheadings, shootings, kidnappings and other acts of extreme violence and threat to society in general. There are an estimated 25,000 or more gangs currently in the United States and more than 1,000. 000 active gang members. Most current gang members in the United States have from the authorities as automatic weapons like AK 47, shotguns, pistols and other weapons, such as chairs, grenades and other explosives powerful. Police report confiscating more and more body armor. Gangs carry all types of criminal activities in all 50 states, the territories of the United States, Mexico, South America, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Although most gang activity is concentrated in large urban areas, gangs also varies in rural and peri proliferating countries. real progress in the war seems to be against drugs, finally making a dent in the global war on terrorism by cutting off the legs and arms of these organizations, the drug, the millions and some experts estimate that distribute generates billions in cash of the radical Islamic terrorists . DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart and Michael Garcia, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Bashir Noorzai, a former Mujahideen warlord and strong ally of the Taliban, was recently convicted by a jury to import Manhattan Federal conspiracy to distribute heroin in the United States. “To illustrate the volatile convergence Illegal Bashir Noorzai of drugs and terrorism,” Leonhart said. “Citizens of America and Afghanistan proud to the sentencing of drug kingpin take this dangerous and fruitful. Noorzai, the chief of his tribe of the same name, one of the largest and most influential tribes in Afghanistan, the opium fields belonging to the southern province of Kandahar, Afghanistan, and had the opium into heroin in laboratories subordinates convert the adjacent regions of Afghanistan. The heroin was hidden later in the United States in suitcases and on ships imported. Until 1990, Noorzai has a network of distributors in New York, who sold his heroin. “Bashir Noorzai supported an extremist Taliban regime with the proceeds from the heroin trade in the world. Noorzai the criminal careers of several decades is finally over, and one of the most prolific exporters of heroin in Afghanistan is facing a life sentence be served in a U.S. prison. “We owe gratitude to the men and women of the DEA and FBI, brought the countless sacrifices to bring him to justice,” said Garcia. Recently other massive investigations and large numbers of drugs arrests as “Project Reckoning” has dealt a huge blow to Mexican drug cartels and gang members worldwide. Both international and constitutional law contract illegal operations by the Task Force are now beginning to produce results. The U.S. government claims that “Project Reckoning” has expected only in the arrest of more than 500 people in the American States, Mexico and led Italy with much more. “Project Reckoning,” an attempt at multi-law enforcement agency by the DEA, the largest Mexican drug cartel and specifically led his American and international distribution networks. 175 of the 500 arrested are members of the Gulf drug cartel believed. Among the defendants are three of the suspected ringleader of the Gulf Cartel: Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, Heriberto Lazcano-Lazcano and Jorge Eduardo Costilla-Sanchez. These individuals, each designated as Consolidated Priority objectives of the organization (CPOTs) by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), have been in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia indicted on charges that they conspired to deliver drugs U.S. imports from Mexico. A CPOT term for drug dealer who believed important that are reserved for the leaders of drug trafficking organizations for the importation of large quantities of narcotics into the United States responsible. During the arrests police said they seized more than $ 60,000,000 USD and more than 40 tons of illegal drugs across the Mexican drug cartel. The studies in Project Reckoning were from the Special Division of the Department of Justice operations, the DEA, FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement coordinates, the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Marshals Service, and prosecutors of the criminal division of narcotics and dangerous. More than 200 state, local and foreign law enforcement authorities has contributed funds to investigate and prosecute Project Reckoning through the OCDETF. Significant support was also led by an international coalition of law enforcement by the DEA offices in Colombia provided, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama and Italy, with the help of their foreign counterparts in each country. Gulf cartel is responsible for transporting multi-ton quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana from Colombia, Guatemala, Panama and Mexico to the United States and the distribution of such drugs United States. Gulf Cartel is also believed to be responsible for laundering millions of dollars of proceeds from crime. Defendant in the case are charged with a variety of crimes, including: drug trafficking in connection with cocaine and marijuana, advertising, and conspiracy to kidnap attempted murder, conspiracy to use a firearm in a violent crime, conspiracy to kill and kidnap in a foreign country money laundering, interstate and foreign travel in the amount of extortion and other crimes. “By spreading dangerous drugs and resorting to brutal violence, drugs, international cartels are an extraordinary threat both here and abroad,” said Attorney General Michael Mukasey B.. “The scope of the threat demands a deliberate and sustained response and the success that we have had, such as the takedowns announced today, is due to the combined efforts of federal, state, local and international law enforcement authorities. While I am pleased with the efforts made me so far We can not and will not rest on these successes. The threat posed by international drug cartels set is too large. We must work together to win. “We successfully completed a tough attack have been completed, coordinated and massive on the powerful and extremely violent Gulf Cartel, “said DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart Mr. Acting.” We have arrested the leader of US-cells, deprived of approval of the $ 60,000,000 in cash, imprisoned their brutal assassins, and serious, their U.S. infrastructure. DEA will continue our relentless attack against this cartel, with the aim to reduce and stop the violence they inflict on the edge of communities in the southwest. “After the indictment today, the project Reckoning in the arrest of 507 persons and the seizure of about $ 60. U.S. $ 1,000,000, 16 711 kilograms of cocaine, 1039 pounds methamphetamine, resulted in 19 kg of heroin, 51,258 pounds of marijuana, 176 vehicles and 167 weapons. Reckoning Project, a 15-month investigation, in a combined centrally coordinated effort several multi-operation control district, in all the links relations with the Gulf cartel. Operation Dos Equis, Vertigo operation, Operation Stinger and Operation The Family , as well as numerous local operations combined to form the secret operation “Project Reckoning. “Operation Community Shield that was begun in February 2005, to street gangs eliminate seems the end of the account of the real fruit to become. The Department of Homeland Security said it was really up-tick in the program to more than 10,000 arrests which violent gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, whose members are from El Salvador, led Honduras and other Central American countries. More than 2,000 violent gang members who are illegally in this country have, during the last two years of government repression of United States arrested. “We have a number of very serious criminals – individuals who are open have their welcome by coming into this country illegally and commit crimes more than they got here worn arrested,” said Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In other developments related to Vito S. Guarino, the Acting Special Agent in charge of the DEA Caribbean Division and Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, the United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, joined the members of the Caribbean Corridor Initiative (CCI) to announce the seizure of about 1930 kilograms of cocaine on the street market of an estimated 58 million on board the Panamanian-flagged Star Megan. As a result of joint efforts of the investigative CCI participants, a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment on board the U.S. frigate USS Farragut intercepted the Megan Star in international waters. Just in the last few days Timothy J. Landrum, Special Agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division and Bernard K. Melekian, police chief of the Pasadena Police Department announced the arrest of 89 persons and the seizure of 12 kilograms of methamphetamine, 2492 ecstasy pills and nearly 12 kilos of cocaine in powder and rock form, and dozens of weapons in a raid on the multi-agency gang and drug crime, the United in from Pasadena to States covered. From July 2008 to October 2008 support were sent by the DEA enforcement Mobile Team (MET) for the area of Pasadena local police in the flow of drugs and violent street gangs. The investigation in the first place, the members of the Pasadena Denver Lane Street Bloods gang Drugs targeted. smuggled a grand jury in San Diego, California charged 35 more people with roles in groups, cocaine and methamphetamine in the United States and returned to Mexico with the money in secret hidden chambers of the vehicle. authorities prompted the sting another blow to drug cartel of Sinaloa in Mexico, allegedly the drug delivered across the border from Mexicali, Mexico, Calexico, California, smuggled about 120 miles east of San Diego. were Nineteen defendants arrested on drug offenses and money laundering, said U.S. Attorney Karen Hewitt. Nine others were considered in the broadest sense, Mexico was, and seven in the broadest sense, considers the United States. The 18-month investigation to run the seizure of $ 9. 5 million in cash, 1,500 kilos of cocaine, 371 kilograms of methamphetamine and about 1,600 kilo of marijuana, said authorities. Six defendants charged were engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, which had a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life. The other crimes prison sentences between defendants from 10 years to life. Most of the arrests took place in California’s Imperial Valley, said Eileen Zeidler, spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. The United States, the extradition for four who were arrested in Mexicali by Mexican authorities would look for. Special Agent David King with the Imperial County Law Enforcement Coordination Center said: “This is the culmination of a 18-month investigation looking into individuals, 6-cell group that distributed drugs in Imperial County in California and the U.S.. “The investigation is called Money Train. More than 150 federal, state and local officials have joined in the pursuit of criminals and drugs.” In some houses we found weapons, new technology to sell, Uzi, controlled substances, and various other accessories narcotics. “Bundles of cash were found in some homes, along with minors. Investigators have been working on the train of the money for a year and a half, and today the train came to a screeching halt.” We take all at once, and it has a massive effect that it is completely dismantled the organization of drug trafficking. “The defendants are U.S. citizens and Mexico were. North of San Diego – Six people were also arrested recently and six others were already in custody in federal complaints resulting from three years ago, a survey multi-agency called Oceanside goals Varrio Posol Locos street gang, based authorities said. During the investigation, authorities seized 26 firearms and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in said Oceanside area, U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt in a statement. The survey was conducted by the Group of North County Regional Gang Force was carried out. “Today’s said operation is an example of multiple resources in the agency repression significantly reduce the impact of one of our local gangs, “Oceanside Police Chief Frank S. McCoy in the statement. Hewitt said the crimes alleged in the complaint, purchase, theft and possession of cover weapons fire condemned criminals several flight of a heroin dealer who distributed moving from a vehicle, conspiracy to heroin in prison and Vista Ironwood State Prison had to Blythe, and street sales of methamphetamine and heroin. to control employ Large street gangs readily violence and to expand drug , weapons, prostitution and other illegal activities, targeting rival gangs and dealers who neglect or refuse to pay the extortion. Members also use violence to ensure that members of the conduct code or tape to leave a member to keep prevent. forces in the national report that gangs responsible for the most serious forms of violent crime in large cities gangs in the United States in a series of criminal activities, including torture, assault, exercise slump, shooting, extortion, murder, identity fraud, money laundering, prostitution operations, robbery, sale of stolen property and weapons. street gangs, gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMG), and prison gangs are the primary distributors of illegal drugs in the streets of the United Kingdom Gangs States. smuggle drugs into the United States and production and to transport the drugs into the country. gangs in the United States now work hand in hand with Mexican cartel gangs, according to a DEA official who wants to remain anonymous. gang members convert Cocainpulver in crack and PCP produce most of the available U.S.. produce bands, especially marijuana and methamphetamines. In addition, gangs increasingly in the smuggling of large quantities of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, MDMA (ecstasy also known as participating Sex Drugs) in the United States from foreign sources. Gangs primarily transport and distribution of powdered cocaine, crack, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, MDMA and PCP, United States. And these illegal activities generate millions of dollars for the gangs and their members. Gangs collect millions of dollars per month selling illegal drugs and arms; prostitution rings operating in the production of pornographic films and selling stolen property. Gangs money from investing in real estate, recording studios, motorcycle shops, car washes and construction companies. They also use different companies cash, such as porno shops, porno cinemas, hair salons, music stores, restaurants , catering services, tattoo parlors, money mats, donut and at the strip clubs, mix drugs with funds generated for the legitimate trade. to go to related articles: www. laguna journal. com
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