Under the designation, federal officials said they can now seize assets of gang members found within the United States jurisdiction... Among the organizations similarly designated are Japan's Yakuza and Mexico's Zetas, whose leader, Heriberto Lazcano, was killed by Mexican Marines on Sunday. An armed gang later stole his body from a funeral parlor... MS-13 began among El Salvadoran refugees...
OCTOBER 31, 2004 : (REPORT: AL QAEDA’S OPERATIVE ADNAN EL SHUKRIJUMAH HAS HOOKED UP WITH SALVADORAN GROUP MS-13 aka MARA SALVATRUCHA - POSSIBLY RELATED TO BIN LADEN THREAT TAPE?) -———”FULL TAPE AN OSAMA A WOE SHOW,” by Niles Lathem, New York Post, 10/31/04, http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/33063.htm VIA 5 posted on 03/01/2005 12:14:55 AM PST by XHogPilot