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FBI to probe American consular slayings in Mexico

Agence France-Presse CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Faced with a brazen challenge from drug cartels, U.S. FBI agents have joined a Mexican probe into attacks on U.S. consular staff and their families that left three dead in this border city, officials said Monday.
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US: Katrina The second guilty plea in the Danziger Bridge case today revealed additional details about the conduct of New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina and suggested more prosecutions of higher-ranking officers are yet to come. Former police detective Jeffrey Lehrmann pleaded guilty to failing to report a felony in connection to a [...]
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Angie Sanselmente Valencia, Lingerie Model, Runs One Of The World’s Largest Drug Gangs, Police Say (PHOTO)

HuffPo Angie Sanselmente Valencia is a stunning young lingerie model who, authorities believe, is also the leader of the one of the world’s largest drug gangs. As the Telegraph reports, an international arrest warrant has been issued for 30-year-old Valencia, who is believed to be on the run in either Mexico or Argentina. Bringing a little glamor [...]
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Swine Flu Drug companies manipulated the World Health Organisation into downgrading its definition of a pandemic so they could cash in on a swine flu outbreak, it is claimed.An inquiry heard yesterday that the WHO allegedly softened its criteria for declaring a H1N1 flu pandemic last spring – just weeks before announcing there was a worldwide [...]
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Venezuela and Colombia The Colombian government has announced it is building a new military base on its border with Venezuela and has activated six new airborne battalions. Mexico Mexico City lawmakers have become the first in Latin America to legalize gay marriage. Canada: Vancouver Wearing video cameras will be routine for Vancouver police officers in the next few years, says [...]
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Cuba A retired US state department official and his wife have admitted spying for Cuba for nearly three decades. The former official, Walter Kendall Myers, 72, had access to top-secret government information. Under a plea deal, Mr Myers will spend the rest of his life in jail while wife Gwendolyn, 71, will serve a term of [...]
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The Zetas: gangster kings of their own brutal narco-state

Guardian | Ed Vulliamy In his final dispatch from the drug-fuelled war along the US-Mexican border, our correspondent profiles the deadly army which rules its territory through murder and ruthless intimidation of public officials – with the multibillion-dollar narcotics trade as its prize Gabriela was riding the Number 20 bus into Reynosa in north-eastern Mexico [...]
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Jet Case Colored with Shades of Iran/Contra and “House of Death”

http://www.narconews.com/… Why Would CIA and ICE Have Gotten Involved in “Mayan Express” Drug Shipments? By Bill Conroy Special to The Narco News Bulletin January 12, 2008 The Gulfstream II jet that fell from the sky over Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula on Sept. 24 last year with close to four tons of cocaine onboard has been the subject of a lot [...]
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Cocaine Jet Crash in Mexico Linked to Narco-Trafficker Who Worked for U.S. Government

Before His September Arrest, José Nelson Urrego May Have Been Operating as a Trafficker and Money Launderer for Years in Panama, Under U.S. Protection By Bill Conroy, Special to The Narco News Bulletin January 12, 2008 Panamanian police descended on a small, private island off the Pacific coast of the Central American nation in late September of last [...]
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