Gunmen Kill 14 At High School Party In Mexico

[Ali G. 37]

and some of you guys want to open up the borders.

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January 31, 2010

Gunmen Kill 14 At High School Party In Mexico

By REUTERS

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen burst into a high school birthday party and killed 14 people in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday, the latest massacre in one of the world's deadliest cities.

Gunmen jumped out of sport utility vehicles and fired at the students, who were celebrating the birthday of a classmate, in a house in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of Sunday.

Bodies lay on the street outside and pools of blood collected by nearby parked cars. Inside the house, the walls were stained with blood and marked with bullet holes.

"The men drove up in SUVs, they were well-armed. They went into the house and shot at everyone, you could hear the gunfire all around," a neighbour at the scene said.

Patricia Gonzalez, attorney general for Chihuahua state that includes Ciudad Juarez, said the shooting was possibly linked to drug cartels.

"We have two lines of investigation and one of them is linked to drug trafficking," she told a news conference. "We know from witnesses that the men arrived looking for someone." She declined to give more details.

Over the past two years, hitmen have attacked parties in Chihuahua state, searching for rivals, and police have reported that some teenagers in Ciudad Juarez have been involved in kidnapping others.

Gonzalez said the dead included three adults and 11 minors. Fourteen others were wounded, two critically. All the victims were between 15 and 20 years old, the army said.

She denied earlier reports that the teenagers were celebrating a local sports championship victory.

"They were about 15 men, they closed off the surrounding streets and began shooting at the house as they moved inside," said army spokesman Enrique Torres.

Ciudad Juarez is the bloodiest front in Mexico's three-year drug war as rival cartels fight over markets and control of smuggling routes into the United States.

Violence is escalating even as federal police and soldiers patrol the streets. Some 2,650 people were killed in drug violence in Ciudad Juarez last year and cartel murders have jumped since the start of 2010.

In some of the worst attacks, gunmen have stormed at least seven drug rehabilitation clinics in the manufacturing city over the past two years, targeting rival dealers. Two strikes in September killed 28 people.

Mexico is the key transit route for U.S.-bound cocaine from South America and a top producer of marijuana and heroin.

A military crackdown on rival cartels in Mexico has fuelled a surge in drug violence that has killed more than 17,000 people since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006, worrying Washington and investors and scaring off tourists from some cities.

(Additional reporting by Alejandro Bringas; editing by Mohammad Zargham)

[Nagishkaw 510]

Wow, that's messed up.

[Ali G. 37]

Wow, that's messed up.

Well that's Mexico for you.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Booyah, you need to keep up. Your topic here has already been posted earlier by an astute student.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...=239800&hl=

[Ali G. 37]

Booyah, you need to keep up. Your topic here has already been posted earlier by an astute student.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...=239800&hl=

Good work. You are on the ball.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Good work. You are on the ball.

And You Rock harder than Gibraltar, Boo! No wonder everyone wants a piece of ya!

[Scott & Lai 12]

So, how long will it be before someone suggests this is no big deal, since after all, we had Columbine and Virginia Tech...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Clearly its a big deal for the people involved, but stories like this are a fact of life in parts of Mexico.

Everyone and his mother knows that there is gang and cartel related crime south of the border.

So what?

[Danno 1,228]

Clearly its a big deal for the people involved, but stories like this are a fact of life in parts of Mexico.

Everyone and his mother knows that there is gang and cartel related crime south of the border.

So what?

Hunt you say "So what" about everything that don't interest you.

Whats your point?

People post stories they find interesting, shocking or for whatever reason if you can't get with the program..... move up to an easier forum.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Somehow I don't think the horror of the story is what these guys are getting at.

I guess we'll see.

[natty bumppo 297]

Somehow I don't think the horror of the story is what these guys are getting at.

I guess we'll see.

crossing illegally to your neighborhood soon ..

[Ali G. 37]

Clearly its a big deal for the people involved, but stories like this are a fact of life in parts of Mexico.

Everyone and his mother knows that there is gang and cartel related crime south of the border.

So what?

Gang and cartel? You are talking about 11 to 12 kids mauled down. This isn't the Godfather, we are talking about real people being mauled down like rats. It's the same deal with talking about Ghettos and crime.

"So what?" This sort of stuff is a stone throw away from America. Considering the border is barely patrolled, such ####### could easily spill into America. If uneducated illegals aliens are using the border to cross, doesn't take a genius to realize the cartels are doing the same thing.

Personally, I like to be proactive rather than reactive. I don't like to wait until a community turns to ####### before doing something.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

What do you expect? We know that most Mexicans and blacks are criminals. Maybe someone will post a few graphs and charts to support me.

[natty bumppo 297]

What do you expect? We know that most Mexicans and blacks are criminals. Maybe someone will post a few graphs and charts to support me.

BY ... you're up ....

[spookyturtle 9,466]

BY ... you're up ....

:lol: