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Third Top Cop Executed in Mexico Drug War

'We have to take back our streets,' prez pleads

By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff

Posted May 11, 2008 6:39 AM CDT

(Newser) – A third key police officer was assassinated yesterday in the intensifying war between Mexican officials and drug cartels, the BBC reports. The deputy police chief of the border town of Juarez was killed when gunmen peppered his car with bullets as he left home. The... Read full story »

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