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I am posting this to keep things in perspective and as a reminder that Terrorism is not the exclusive tool of any particular group, race or faith.
This is no less horrifying than the events in Mumbai, but in this case everybody knows who the terrorists are and there is no way to connect them to any religious belief.
A terrorist is a terrorist, no matter what label we try to place on them.
This is much closer and much more scary to residents of the USA then any incidents in the Mideast or the subcontinent. Or rather it should be.
In the past years the loss of life nearly equals all of the Americans killed in Iraq in the past 5 years. It seems the war on terror is missing a major battlefield.
Do we feel that the loss of Mexican lives is of no importance? Do we deny that Mexicans are also Americans? Are we too concerned with events far away, because we are in denial it is in our own back yard?
This is no less horrifying than the events in Mumbai, but in this case everybody knows who the terrorists are and there is no way to connect them to any religious belief.
9 headless bodies found in Mexican border city
TIJUANA, Mexico – The bodies of nine decapitated men were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana Sunday, part of a wave of violence that claimed at least 23 lives over the weekend in this border city plagued by warring traffickers, authorities said.
The heads were discovered in plastic bags near the bodies in a poor neighborhood of Tijuana, across from San Diego, Baja California state police said in a statement. Three police identification cards were also found at the site.
The statement gave no motive for the killings, but they came as Mexico's drug cartels wage a bloody fight for smuggling routes and against government forces, dumping beheaded bodies onto streets, carrying out massacres and even tossing grenades into a crowd of Independence Day revelers — an attack that killed eight people in September.
More than 4,000 people have died so far this year in drug-related violence in Mexico.
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A terrorist is a terrorist, no matter what label we try to place on them.
This is much closer and much more scary to residents of the USA then any incidents in the Mideast or the subcontinent. Or rather it should be.
In the past years the loss of life nearly equals all of the Americans killed in Iraq in the past 5 years. It seems the war on terror is missing a major battlefield.
Do we feel that the loss of Mexican lives is of no importance? Do we deny that Mexicans are also Americans? Are we too concerned with events far away, because we are in denial it is in our own back yard?