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Monday, November 08, 2010

A Different Sort of Mayhem

Just a reminder that you don't need jihadis to get gruesome results:

The grainy video of torture and murder looks like so many that have come out of Mexico this year: a bleeding man is tied to a chair; the victim screams for mercy; an assassin's hand swings in with a machete. However, when soldiers on Oct. 29 stormed a house in central Mexico where the snuff film was allegedly made, they uncovered a brutal detail. The gangsters behind the terror were not just veterans of the narco wars, but included several 18- and 19-year olds. The teenagers, paraded before the press with acne, scruffy hair and loud t-shirts, were also accused of hanging victims from freeway bridges, genitals sliced from their bodies.

This isn't early 2004 Fallujah or any place in Afghanistan's Taliban belt. I trust we won't have any outreach to the drug culture world to solve this problem.


Today, our attack drones are moving to Yemen. How long before armed drones are making strikes in northern Mexico?