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Mosque once used by Sept. 11 attackers shut down (AP)

August 9th, 2010

AP - A Hamburg mosque once frequented by some of the Sept. 11 attackers was shut down Monday because German authorities believe the prayer house was again being used as…

US official: Mexican car bomb likely used Tovex (AP)

July 19th, 2010

A police officer runs after an attack on police patrol trucks that killed two officers in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday July 15, 2010.  Mexican investigators ran forensic tests to determine whether drug gangs used a car bomb in an attack on police patrol trucks that killed two officers and wounded nine people on Thursday.  A car bomb would mark an unprecedented escalation of Mexico's drug war and confirm long-standing fears that the cartels are turning to explosives in their fight against security forces. (AP Photo)AP - A drug gang that carried out the first successful car bombing against Mexican security forces likely used an industrial explosive that organized crime gangs in the past have…

Mayor: car bomb used in attack on Mexican police (AP)

July 16th, 2010

Federal police agents secure the area after members of a drug gang rammed a car into two police patrol vehicles in retaliation for the arrest of a top gang leader in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Two officers and an emergency medical technician were killed and a cameraman at the scene was injured. (AP Photo)AP - A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico’s decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city…

Ex-drug lords’ property used by Haiti government (AP)

March 24th, 2010

People pass by the former Gold Gym shopping,  which was expropriated by the Haitian government from a major cocaine trafficker and is now the new headquarters of the Provisional Electoral Council, in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. New cooperation between Haitian authorities and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration,  DEA,  before the earthquake has brought an unexpected yield to a country whose infrastructure is now in ruins: confiscated properties that are spacious, opulent and free.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Election workers scurry across the airy courtyard of their lavish new headquarters, a three-story building that hardly suffered a crack in Haiti’s earthquake.


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