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TIJUANA – Automatic weapons rattled, neighbors huddled low in their locked homes and uniformed preschoolers were hustled to safety as heavily armed law enforcement agents stormed a house yesterday in a middle-class neighborhood here and found the bodies of six people believed to be victims of the Arellano Félix drug cartel.
One suspect was killed and four police agents were injured in the three-hour gunbattle.
Mexican authorities announced last night at a news conference that four people were in custody, including a Tijuana police officer and a man who identified himself as a member of the Baja California ministerial police.
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Authorities say they've found six executed kidnapping victims inside a Tijuana house where gunmen took refuge during a shootout with police. Mexico has recently seen a spike in gang-related killings.
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The suspects are members of a cell of the notoriously violent cartel, said Edgar Millán, a top official with Mexico's federal Public Security Secretariat. While the drug gang is believed to have lost its lock on the region's drug trade in recent years, it remains active.
The gunbattle was part of a daunting spike in regional violence in recent weeks. Some analysts say the spate of killings is an indication that drug cartels and kidnap gangs feel threatened by the federal, state and municipal governments' vow to work together against organized crime. Others say it is a sign of a power struggle as the Arellano Félix cartel loses its grip. that is really crazy.
Yesterday, a shooting broke out in a middle class neighborhood in Tijuana. The neighborhood, La Mesa became an improvised battleground in which members of the Arellano-Felix cartel and members of the Federal Preventive Police, state and municipal police and even the military. They were all working together on the case. The shooting broke out at about 10:30 a.m. when elements of the police department that had this particular house under surveillance tried to enter by force. Inside the house they found six dead victims that had been shot in the head. The shooting then kept going for three hour straight and many were injured. The police suffered 4 men injured. But the men inside the house were apprehended. People hid behind walls and crouched low in their home just in case that a stray bullet be directed their way. Many of the residents of the area expressed their concern and fear. They said that they couldn’t believe that something like that would happen in a neighborhood that seemed relatively calm. Since the shootings occurred near a preschool, members of the military went in and evacuated the children to a safe place. In my opinion I believe that it is really disappointing to see the decline of safety in this world and the increase of both fear and insecurity. At least the police is mobilizing to try to protect the safety of their citizens.
Today in the union tribune, I read that in Nevada a deep and angry split in Nevada’s labor movement has opened up as a rival unions try to rein in the power of the states culinary workers union in advance of Saturday’s democratic presidential caucuses. With its flourishing tourism industry and seemingly constant construction boom, Nevada has become the west’s most unionized union, which represents 60,000 workers mostly in las Vegas casinos, is the king of the hill. The localized clout of the union, whose membership has tripled in 15 years, has come to rival some of the titans of organized labor in their heyday, said Peter Rachleff, a labor historian at Macalester college in St. Paul, Minn. “its like the autoworkers used to be in Michigan or the steel workers used to be in Pittsburgh or the longshoreman union in Hawaii, Rachleff said. With most of Nevada’s unions backing Sen. Hilary Clinton of new York of former Sen. John Edwards of north Carolina, the culinary workers union, along with the service employees international union, shook up the Democratic- Presidential race here by throwing their considerable support to Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Once primarily a mining state, Nevada’s economy is so driven by tourism and entertainment that it forces Democratic candidates to play down their rust belt economic speeches about the outsourcing of the jobs when they campaign in the state.
Source; Union Tribune.
Article; Survivor Told of Yelling At Tiger, Police Say.
Summary; This morning's blog is based on the article I read in the San Diego Union Tribune. The article was about the recent tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo. The attack, sadly, left a young man dead. Luckilly, there were two survivors after the deadly attack. One of the survivors denies that he threw anything into the enclosure causing the tiger to react.
Police obtained a search warrant when they started investigating. While searching for evidence, they seized a small amount of marijuana and a bottle of vodka found in the car. Along side with that, they found a kit that is commonly used to defeat drug testing because it appears that both men had been on probation. But later on, police learned that the young men were at fault. Evidence shows that the young men were standing on top of the railing along the enclosure but the suspects insist they did not do anything to get a reaction from the tiger. They say that they were acting like normal people at the zoo.
Reflection; Im not sure who's to blame. But the people in charge of regualting the height of these enclosures should be responsible. Im sure there are plenty of children who get all rowdy at the zoo but that does not mean they deserve to die. I think that the zoo should take the blame and pay the fine. It doesn't make any sense if they dont because these situations should always be prevented for and they obviously did not do their job.
Back then, most Americans still had to lick a stamp to send mail.Then along came an experimental browser called Mosaic, followed by an improved browser from Netscape. And if you had a computer, you discovered a new way to this cool, new thing called the World Wide Web. Mosaic and Netscape were the first popular connection to what came to be called the information superhighway and followed the first browser by Tim Berners-Lee called Worldwide Web. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, fewer than one in seven Americans were online in 1995. Today, the majority of Americans are surfing the Web, exchanging e-mail, reading bank statements and ball scores, checking the weather. Today, Pew says, two out of every three Americans spend time onlineThe World Wide Web has transformed the way people live, work and play. People can play travel agent and book all the elements of a vacation online. They can arrange for their bills to be paid automatically while they are gone. They can put a hold on mail delivery, find directions to tourist attractions and get a long-term weather forecast before they
Georgia declares the drought in Lake Lanier a. Lake Lanier is a 38,000 acre reservoir that supplies water to more than 3 million homes. But the bad thing is that the lake is drying up which means no more water supply. Because of this, Georgia officials have tried to curve the water usage to help protect two species of muscles that live downstream of the reservoir. Some people feel that the bill is being used to take water from the Florida lakes. Measures have already been taken toward the water conservation as waterings have been restricted for use during weekends. I believe that preservation is an important to things. If they people don’t reserve the water pretty soon there will be no more left. Even though it’s a renewable resource, it’s it constantly being used and in that case it causes the water supply to decrease without giving it time to be reused.
“Company Saw Promises Of Stem Cells”
►What I read in the newspaper today it was over martinis that a San Diego Fertility Specialist, the eight-person biotechnology company that yesterday became the 1st to document that its scientists had cloned a human embryo by fusing a man’s skin cell with an unfertilized egg. Samuel Wood, a physician and Ph.D. Scientist, was having drinks with the venture capitalism friend he declined to identify. Both had parents with degeneration disease and were discussing the promise of stem cells and how they might use their financial success to further work in field.
►I don’t agree because the embryos they are actually a human in development and they are a human too.
►I also don’t agree because they may do a error and mess up all the process.
►In the other hand I agree because they could help other humans with this.
►I think the most interesting fact its that they are doing this process.
The story I read today was about a cartel shooting that lasted three hours six people were dead inside, this happened yesterday in Tijuana. Police say that there was a police officer involved and that when they went up there they found six people gagged to death. They also say that the Arellano brothers are behind all this.
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