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Gangs traffic some 500,000 foreigners a year across Mexico
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Mexico City - An estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants from South America, the Caribbean and Central America pay Mexican gangs to help them transit Mexico and cross into the United States every year, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission said Wednesday.
This illegal trade brings ‘extraordinary earnings’ since each person pays 4,000 to 15,000 dollars. In total, this would mean some 2 to 7.5 billion dollars a year, the commission said.
The commission, which also said Mexican officials deport an estimated 200,000 illegal immigrants every year, released the report just two weeks after a high profile illegal transit case made headlines.
An armed commando stopped Mexican authorities transporting 37 illegal migrants to an immigration center, and disappeared with many of them. Eighteen of the group later resurfaced in the US.
‘The earnings in the illegal trade in people can only be compared to those of arms trafficking, human […]

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What about a pedophile, a terrorist sympathizer, or a kleptomaniac? If you had to pic, which would you choose? Hopefully none of the above, but one woman refused to be seated next to fascist. Can you blame her? I found an interesting tidbit on a blog I like to visit called Lancaster Unity. London Assembly Member Jennette Arnold refused to sit next to Richard Barnbrook of the FAR RIGHT British National Party. It may seem like she was oversensitive, but I wouldn’t want to sit next to him either. In fact, there is something painfully sadistic about being made to sit next to such a person, IMO. That’s all I have to say about that.

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Anyone else see right through this BS?
Take a look at a map, notice how Afghanistan is strategically located on one side of Iran and Iraq on the other side?
Here it comes, I cant believe this is happening….. WTF are they thinking? Mad
It also says they want to convince Pakistan to allow troops into their country to fight the Taliban… Notice how it also borders Iran?
I can hear it now (Like the police over the intercom) “We have you surrounded, please come out with your hands in the air or we will be forced to open fire….”
More US troops may go to Afghanistan this year

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 29 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Pentagon leader on Wednesday signaled a surge in U.S. forces in Afghanistan “sooner rather than later,” a shift that could send some units there within weeks, as officials prepare to […]

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The Population Reference Bureau Statistics shows whites
are dying out. Overlapping gene pools cause a non white
reality. They are panicking, that’s why they like to
come up with their stupid racist scenarios. That’s
why they trigger happy. The Caucaisian race is 8 percent
of the population. The white women can Barely raise
a child, that childbearing white women population is
2 percent.

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KABUL, July 16 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai fired the attorney-general on Wednesday after the country’s top prosecutor announced he intended to run for the presidency in elections next year.
Abdul Jabar Sabit, a U.S. trained lawyer, had returned from exile in 2002, months after U.S.-led and Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban government.
He was appointed attorney-general and announced a war against the endemic corruption in Afghanistan as his top priority. But his efforts have largely been unsuccessful.
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India will fight Maoist rebels by creating a special anti-insurgency police force and jungle warfare training schools, the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
“There is no room for complacency,” Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta said in an e-mailed statement. “Action on various fronts continues to be necessary.”
Maoist rebel groups, known as Naxalites, have built up a 600 million rupee ($15 million) war chest to buy weapons and explosives, the government said in March. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called them the nation’s biggest security threat.
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BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) — At least 21 Indian commandos were killed Wednesday in a Maoist rebel attack in the mineral-rich but impoverished east of the country, officials said.
The attack came as top officials met in New Delhi to try and devise a strategy to stamp out the worsening left-wing guerilla revolt in a large swathe of the country left out of India’s economic boom.
Federal home ministry and state officials said a special counter-insurgency unit was hit by a landmine blast while patrolling Malkangiri district, a known Maoist stronghold in the far south of Orissa state.
“So far we can confirm 21 policemen belonging to special operations group were killed in the landmine blast,” Orissa’s police chief, Gopaal Nand, told AFP in state capital Bhubaneswar.
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Say what you like about the F-22, the world’s most advanced and expensive fighter jet, it is obviously fun to fly. One of these $350m aircraft dipped and fluttered around the sky above the Farnborough air show this week in a bravura show of agility.
The F-22 is a supersonic stealth aircraft dreamt up at the end of the cold war to impose American air superiority over Soviet fighters. In recent exercises, its invisibility and advanced radar and avionics allowed it to shoot down 80 aircraft for every time that it was hit itself.
The F-22’s party trick is to be able to pivot horizontally in mid-air as it sniffs around for a target. “The sensation is not: ‘Oh, my gosh, the nose is slipping out of control. It is ‘Oh, my gosh, I can get the nose to do what I want,’ ” said Al Norman, the F-22’s senior test pilot.
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NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Three defense contractors said Wednesday that they plan to make a multi-purpose missile that can be used for the new stealth fighters and unmanned planes that are expected to be a staple of U.S. air power in the next several decades.
Alliant Techsystems of Minneapolis, Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., and Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. said the new missile will be able to both shoot down planes in the air or strike targets on the ground, a dual role that would free planes from having to carry two different types of missiles at once.
That would benefit fighters like the F-35 and the F-22, two new stealth planes, giving pilots more freedom to switch missions depending on the battle conditions that arise on the ground or in air.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran can deter any threats against it, the head of the Revolutionary Guards said in comments published on Wednesday, after the country’s air force announced plans for a military exercise to help deter its foes.
Iran is embroiled in a deepening international standoff over its nuclear programme, which the United States and Israel suspect is aimed at making bombs, a charge Tehran denies.
In a shift in policy the United States will send a senior envoy, Under Secretary of State William Burns, to talks between Iran and major powers this weekend to discuss Tehran’s response to an offer of incentives if it suspends enriching uranium.
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