"THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com." This emporium for girls and women — some under age or forced into …
Attack on Russian banker in London leaves trail of clues back to Moscow
"Gorbuntsov survived. He remains in a critical condition in hospital. But his shooting is the most high-profile attack on a Russian in London since the 2006 polonium murder of Alexander Litvinenko. It …
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Link Grows Between Terrorism, Organized Crime, Officials Say
" The two missions of fighting terrorism and combating global organized crime are increasingly linked, senior Defense Department officials told Congress yesterday. Michael A. Sheehan, assistant …
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Jalisco Cartel Promises Mexico Govt it will Take Down Rival Gang
"The speaker goes on to promise the government that the group will take down the various Caballero leaders, and asks state agencies to allow them to go about their work unhindered. He assures viewers …
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Twelve police ambushed, killed in Mexico drug zone
"Twelve Mexican police officers were ambushed and killed near a remote southern town where locals earlier found 10 human heads, prosecutors said Monday. The officers were ambushed on a highway Sunday …
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10 heads found in Mexico
"Mexican authorities have found 10 severed heads dumped outside a slaughterhouse in a town in northern Guerrero state. They are still looking for the bodies." (WGME 13 :: News - International News) …
Killing of 4 youths horrifies central Mexico city
"The slayings of four youths whose bodies were cut to pieces and left in plastic bags has horrified the central Mexico city of Cuernavaca, calling up memories of a similar crime a year ago that …
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Mexican drug cartels ‘operating in the UK, France and Netherlands’
"Mexico’s violent drug cartels have reached the streets of Britain, France and the Netherlands, according to US immigration officials, with undercover British agents undergoing training in El Paso to …
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Homeland Security: Smugglers Recruit South Bay Youth to Act As Drug Mules
"A disturbing new trend of smuggling has been on the rise since 2009, the Department of Homeland Security said. Teenagers and young adults, some as young as 10 years old, are being recruited by …
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Mexicans fear ‘losing’ country to Zetas drug cartel
"Much has been made of the risks Mexico’s drug war poses to tourists, but the most immediate threat is to Mexicans themselves, who are increasingly having to share their cities with criminal …
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