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| Mexican Quagmire: 40 Dead In Tijuana This Week |
| 2008-10-04 |
| Eight dead bodies were found Friday in the border city of Tijuana, across from San Diego, according to an official at the Baja California state prosecutor's office who was not authorized to be quoted by name. Five were dumped in an empty lot, one was discovered in the trunk of a car and two others were found decapitated two blocks from the local office of Calderon's ruling National Action Party. Some 40 people have been killed in drug-related violence in the past week in Tijuana, bringing the total so far this year to more than 400. On Monday, 12 bodies were found outside an elementary school and an additional four victims were discovered in another section of the city. Nine more bodies were discovered near a day care on Thursday and two other bodies were found elsewhere... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #12 I"m up in Carlsbad. Going to the Airshow tomorrow. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-10-04 21:41 |
| #11 btw - congrats for your friend and his commission |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-10-04 19:45 |
| #10 too bad. CL, but welcome! I'm always looking for SD locals (we're a small group) ;-) hope you enjoyed your stay. My father's inurned at Ft Rosecrans on Point Loma - beautiful views of downtown to Mexico |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-10-04 19:44 |
| #9 Uh, no Frank. I'm not local and I missed the missing nym. Was in town to celebrate a true warrior getting his commission from the Navy. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2008-10-04 19:33 |
| #8 should've read watching SDSU (my alma mater) vs TCU on the MTN, distracted... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-10-04 18:31 |
| #7 really, Harcourt - local guy? My abode's in Santee, |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-10-04 18:29 |
| #6 Was enjoying a beautiful sunset at Point Loma this week marveling at how a third world shit hole could be right there just across the bay. |
| Posted by: Harcourt Phererong8888 2008-10-04 18:14 |
| #5 Mexico could be a first world nation inside of a decade if they didn't have a class of political leaches sucking them dry. Then again, where would our own politicians get their good ideas from. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-10-04 13:34 |
| #4 Next stop : AZATLAN! |
| Posted by: borgboy 2008-10-04 13:19 |
| #3 Too close for comfort, build the damn fence, and protect and enforce our borders. Are we waiting for this escalated violence to be brought into San Diego? I'd like to see the campaigns address these border issues. |
| Posted by: Jan 2008-10-04 10:18 |
| #2 CSI Tijuana has been hot on the case. The decapitations all appear to be accidental, and the bodies in 55-gallon drums of acid are work accidents. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-10-04 10:14 |
| #1 12 outside an elementary school and 9 near a day care center? The Mexican kiddies have turned into homicidal maniacs? I wonder if Obama will have us invade Mexico when he brings our troops back from Iraq. Certainly easier logistics than Afghanistan. Maybe set up a new urban warfare training center for use by Camp Pendleton? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-10-04 10:00 |