I'm thinking spies:
"Mexico gunmen may have killed US missionary’s wife over truck" by Paul J. Weber, Associated Press / January 28, 2011
MONTE ALTO, Texas — A Texas couple who were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of Mexico’s most violent areas had been delivering babies and doing missionary work in the country for three decades, and they had come to expect such confrontations, the couple’s son said yesterday.
Is that their NOC, or.... ??
Nancy Davis, 59, was shot in the head Wednesday while her husband, Sam, was trying to speed away from suspected drug cartel gunmen who may have wanted to steal their pickup, authorities said. Sam Davis frantically raced to the Pharr International Bridge border checkpoint with his wife bleeding beside him, but she was declared dead at a Texas hospital....
The area where couple was attacked is dominated by the Gulf Cartel, which has been waging a fierce turf war in northeastern Tamaulipas with the Zetas cartel for control of lucrative smuggling routes to the United States....
Related: Mexican Oil Siphoning Story Stinks
Military founded a drug cartel, 'eh?
Wednesday’s killing echoes the September attack on American tourist David Hartley and his wife on Falcon Lake, on the US-Mexico border. Tiffany Hartley said she and her husband were Jet-Skiing in Mexican waters when pirates fired on them, striking her husband and forcing her to flee. His body was not recovered.
Also see: Drug Cartels Doing Cold War Spying
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Related: Bishop Samuel Ruiz; defended rights of Indians in Chiapas
Also see: Rivals claim win in Mexico governor’s race
Mexico border town’s new chief is slain
Gotta seal up that border, right?
"The Obama administration yesterday ended a high-tech southern border fence scheme that cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion but did little to improve security....
These guys toss around a billion dollars like it was tip money.
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Also see: Billion Dollar Bioterror Boondoggle
Sunday Globe Special: Obama's Billion-Dollar Drug Lab
So which $ecurity company benefited thi$ time?
