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Mexico Continues Border War

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August 20, 2009

In what has been a lightly reported story this past week – but one for which it is impossible to overstate the importance of – President Felipe Calderon terminated 1000 customs officials (700 in some reports) from their positions as inspectors at ports of entry throughout the country. This is another indication of the dedicated and serious manner in which President Calderon has continued to wage war with the drug cartels that exploit the border for their own illegitimate purposes.

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Border murder highlights double-edged sword of confidential informants

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August 19, 2009

Security Weekly: Confidential Informants: A Double-Edged Sword Police in El Paso, Texas, announced Aug. 11 that they had arrested three suspects in the May 15 shooting death of Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana, a Juarez cartel lieutenant who had been acting as a confidential informant (CI) for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. It […]

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Mexico purges customs officers for border corruption

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August 19, 2009

Mexico purges customs officers for border corruption | World news | The Guardian More than 700 customs officers at airports and land crossings have been replaced in Mexico in a crackdown on corrupt agents who allow drugs and weapons to flow across the country’s borders, a spokesman for the customs service said yesterday.. Reforma newspaper […]

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Mexican drug cartels now smuggling oil to US

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August 11, 2009

The Associated Press: AP NewsBreak: Mexican cartels smuggle oil to US U.S. Justice Department officials say U.S. refineries are buying stolen oil siphoned from Mexican government pipelines and smuggled across the border — in some cases by drug cartels.

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New Weapons Busting Scanner for Airports

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July 21, 2009

DoD Buzz | New Weapons Busting Scanner | Air European aerospace giant EADS has begun production of a system intended to thwart terrorists carrying chemical or explosive weapons, a technology that also promises to be a boon to air travelers long grown frustrated with lines, delays, pat-downs and moving shoeless through airports. And then there […]

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The bloody drug violence on our border will get worse before it gets better

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July 21, 2009

Mexico must follow Colombia’s lead and not fold under the pressure of the wrath playing out on her streets today. Drug cartels, just like terrorist organizations, work very, very hard to destabilize governments around the globe. They rely on corruption, intimidation and violence, the hallmarks of organized crime, to create permissive environments where they can grow and thrive; areas where they can literally get away with mass murder.If Mexico loses the will to continue this fight, then life in Mexico and the United States will change as we know it.

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Targeting Taliban's Bankroll

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June 25, 2009

Just recently, the DEA put more agents on the ground in war zones to crack down on the funneling of drug money to key terrorist operatives.

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Interagency Agreement Signals Progress in the "War on Drugs"

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June 22, 2009

In retirement, I can still refer to “The War on Drugs” as “The War on Drugs,” a phrase not popular with the current administration. Despite what you want to call it, this administration made progress last week in narcotics enforcement when an inter-agency agreement was signed between the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to substantially increase the number of ICE Special Agents with Title 21 authority.

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"Medical" marijuana causes cancer says science community

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June 22, 2009

The Jawa Report: Smoking Dope Causes Cancer Based upon a review of more than 30 scientific papers, the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced yesterday that smoking marijuana causes cancer, making it the same as smoking tobacco with regard to health effects.

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DOJ to Let ICE Agents Make Drug Arrests

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June 19, 2009

U.S. to Let Immigration Agents Make Drug Arrests – washingtonpost.com The Obama administration is preparing to give more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents authority to make drug arrests to assist Mexico’s bloody battle with drug cartels, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told senators today. The decision would end a years-long dispute between the […]

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