re: At least 9 American women and children killed in Mexico, others missing

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We need to eradicate the cartels.

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No, I think the Mormons likely own a huge swath of land and protect it vigorously and the drug cartels either want access or they otherwise wanted to send a statement to the Mormons. I'm not saying this is the case here, but it wouldn't be the first time Mormons, Catholic Church, or another religion fought with the locals.

For all we know, the local drug cartel leader was Catholic and didn't believe in the Mormons polygamy.

I just don't think you ride 3 suburbans deep with nothing but women and children. There's a reason they did that and its more likely than not the Mormons were shooting back.

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A top member of a breakaway Mormon sect was dragged from his home by marauders and killed early Tuesday in a village founded and named for the American families that settled the remote community in the northern Mexican desert.

Benjamin LeBaron, 31, and Luis Widmar, 29, a brother-in-law who tried to help him, were grabbed by at least 15 commandos shortly after midnight in Colonia LeBaron, which is about 200 miles southeast of El Paso, witnesses said.

The bodies of the men, both naturalized U.S. citizens with five children each, were found nearby shortly afterward, each shot several times in the head, Brent LeBaron, a cousin of Benjamin who lives in the village, said by telephone.

The attackers struck his cousin’s house as the family slept trying to knock down the front door and smashing its windows, Brent LeBaron said. A panicked Benjamin LeBaron phoned two brothers-in-law for help.

But after the attackers threatened to throw a grenade into the house, LeBaron opened the door.

The gangsters beat Le-Baron and one threatened to rape his wife in front of their children before carrying their victims away, Brent LeBaron said.

As the commandos left they fired assault rifles at the second brother-in-law, who was wounded with shrapnel in the back.

Benjamin LeBaron and other village leaders had led hundreds of people in May to Chihuahua City to demand government action in the abduction of Eric LeBaron, Benjamin’s 16-year-old brother. The kidnappers were demanding $1 million in ransom, but the LeBaron community had decided to instead pressure for the boys’s release, which occurred in mid-May.

“We’re fighting as a community,” Brent LeBaron said. “Standing up against extortionists and kidnappers. But we have never done anything against the drug lords. We stay away from the drug war because we know it’s a battle that we can’t win.”

A placard left with the bodies said the killings were in retribution for the June arrests by federal forces of 25 men in a distant village accused of running narcotics.

“These guys blame our protest for pressuring the government to act and do something,” said Clary Jones, who helped organize the protest to free Benjamin’s brother, Eric, in May and who is directly mentioned in the warning left with the men’s bodies. “It’s a message from them.”

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Trump talks tough but Is a pussy. We should have already sent in hundreds of cruise missle attacks and drone strikes. What’s Mexico going to do about it nothing. Then shut the border down until the heads of the culprits are provided.

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TutHillTiger

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yep and every time a foreign citizen is killed in an American town it should be bombed to rubble as well, that will fix it.

fricking idiot

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