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Mexico: 43 dead in 3-hour firefight on ranch in west
Yahool News ^ | E. Eduardo Castillo and Katherine Cocoran

Posted on 05/23/2015 9:02:48 AM PDT by QT3.14

At least 43 people died Friday in what authorities described as a fierce, three-hour gunbattle between federal forces and suspected drug gang gunmen on a ranch in western Mexico, the deadliest such confrontation in recent memory.

All the dead were suspected criminals except for one federal police officer, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said. He said the officer died trying to help a colleague wounded in the shootout.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drugcartels; drugs; mexico
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1 posted on 05/23/2015 9:02:48 AM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14

Bandidos and Cossacks?


2 posted on 05/23/2015 9:03:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: QT3.14
'At least 43 people died Friday in what authorities described as a fierce, three-hour gunbattle between federal forces and suspected drug gang gunmen on a ranch in western Mexico, the deadliest such confrontation in recent memory. '

uh...crazy...not even a record.

3 posted on 05/23/2015 9:05:14 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: QT3.14

43 reminds me that there were 43 students/demonstrators last September in Mexico that went missing and are presumed to be dead.


4 posted on 05/23/2015 9:09:44 AM PDT by apocalypto
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Quick call out the CT crowd !


5 posted on 05/23/2015 9:11:21 AM PDT by Bidimus1
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To: QT3.14

I would be willing to grant those 43 amnesty.


6 posted on 05/23/2015 9:11:46 AM PDT by boycott
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“All the dead were suspected criminals except for one federal police officer,”

I love a happy ending. Sniffle.


7 posted on 05/23/2015 9:12:41 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Lord God help us.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bandidos and Cossackanistas?


8 posted on 05/23/2015 9:13:43 AM PDT by QT3.14 ("What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision" - Zero, 2007 campaign)
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“...the officer died trying to help a colleague wounded in the shootout.” Some doubt the lyin’ king could weigh in on this. If he had a hiss-panic cousin................


9 posted on 05/23/2015 9:14:07 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: QT3.14

Impressive. I thought the cartels had bought all the cops in Mexico.


10 posted on 05/23/2015 9:18:23 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: QT3.14

Naw, it was the Waco Police what done it.


11 posted on 05/23/2015 9:19:16 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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BRING THOSE COPS TO BALTIMORE, FERGUSON and anyplace else the natives want to riot....... THAT IS HOW BALTIMORE SHOULD HAVE ENDED....


12 posted on 05/23/2015 9:28:31 AM PDT by zzwhale
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Sounds Gus and a Breaking Bad revenge action.


13 posted on 05/23/2015 9:28:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
I love a happy ending. Sniffle.

Better yet, "...many of suspects had been killed AFTER they surrendered."


14 posted on 05/23/2015 9:29:15 AM PDT by QT3.14 ("What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision" - Zero, 2007 campaign)
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Waiting for the liberal race baiters to compare Mexicans (since they love proclaiming “Mexican” is a race) with Baltimore rioters. Oh wait. The noble Mexican is above reproach.


15 posted on 05/23/2015 9:35:59 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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ISIS?


16 posted on 05/23/2015 9:39:17 AM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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Three hour gunbattle. Final score 42-1
Does not sound like a fair fight to me


17 posted on 05/23/2015 9:40:53 AM PDT by winodog
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To: SoFloFreeper
Buy the RV, We start cooking tomorrow!

18 posted on 05/23/2015 9:42:06 AM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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The criminals must have not had any of the Fast and Furious assault weapons. So it wasn’t a fair fight.


19 posted on 05/23/2015 9:56:02 AM PDT by crusher2013
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druggies didn’t pay enough to the cops and the cops got pissed off.


20 posted on 05/23/2015 10:24:37 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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