Posted on 07/19/2010 7:36:28 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
In Torreon, a city in the northern state of Coahuila, Mexico which is just across the border from Texas, seventeen people were killed and 10 injured by relentless machine gun fire in an attack on a birthday party, and of course a drug cartel is suspected for the violence as reported by BBC News:
A source within the state police department told AFP news agency that witnesses had reported hearing the group yell "kill them all" before opening fire. * * * Coahuila is thought to be a stronghold of the powerful Zetas cartel, says the BBC's Julian Miglierini in Mexico City. But their control over this territory is now said to be facing a challenge from their former allies, the Gulf Cartel, in an alliance with the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man.
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War crime?
When is the international media going to get concerned?
Happy birthday!!
Maybe the media will start paying attention when it reads like this:
In San Antonio, Texas, 17 people were killed and 10 injured by relentless machine gun fire in an attack on a birthday party, and of course a drug cartel is suspected for the violence as reported by ......
In El Paso, TX the city hall building is pock marked with from stray bullets from gun battles between rival cartels in Juarez, Mexico.
As long as they kill only each other, just what is the problem? Happy Birthday, drug scum.
This drug cartel sounds about as brave as a muslim. Birthday party...now that’s a hard target.
No they won't. We've been going through stuff like this for years here in Phoenix and all the media has reported is John McCain calling us a bunch of bigots and racists.
Certainly not before our border is thrown wide open and blanket amnesty is granted.
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