Sophisticated Mexican groups plot abductions

Sophisticated Mexican groups plot abductions

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Organized, well-financed and violent Mexican kidnapping cells are targeting a growing number of U.S. citizens visiting communities popular with San Diegans and other California residents.


Last year, at least 26 San Diego County residents were kidnapped and held for ransom in Tijuana, Rosarito Beach or Ensenada, local FBI agents overseeing the cases said yesterday. In 2006, at least 11 county residents had been kidnapped in the three communities.

“Some of the 26 were recovered, some were hurt and some were killed,” said agent Alex Horan, who directs the FBI's violent-crime squad in San Diego.

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Watch your back when you go to Mexico. I would be a lot more worried about this than al-queda planning an attack on the US like the government would like to scare us with.

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