Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer recently took some unjustifiable flak from the head-in-the-sand left for her comments that the Mexican drug cartels were beheading people in the state, and now it turns out that she was right. In Chandler, AZ a man was stabbed repeatedly and then grotesquely behead, and authorities are looking into the possibility of drug cartel ties as reported by Joel Waldman for KGUN: "The victim in the case is a Phoenix resident who may have been involved in drug trafficking and may have stolen drugs or money from a drug dealer. We have no confirmation whether it is a drug cartel, but our investigators are following leads that this possible could be drug cartel related." Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that the narco insurgents from Mexico in fact are sending hitmen or "sicarios" into Arizona to locate and kill those who are stealing their product as reported by Jerry Seper for The Washington Times: "In a memo first sent in May but widely circulated since, the department said a group of '15, very well-equipped and armed' assassins complete with body armor had been sent into the state to identify, locate and kill the drug thieves, who are thought to be independent operators." Meanwhile, although the Mexican drug cartels have established supply lines, distribution networks and operational cells in at least 270 cities throughout the United States, the Obama Administration continues to downplay the problem as reported by George H. Wittman for The American Spectator: "The Mexican drug cartels have brought sophistication and financial power to their American operations that they now run as wholly owned subsidiaries. The war between [the drug cartels] . . . without a doubt spills over into the U.S. This violence exists in order to protect their respective distribution routes. Nonetheless, for obvious political reasons the Washington administration wants to underplay these connections and pretend that the drug wars of Mexico do not cross over into the U.S. and thus have no appreciable impact on the northern side of the border." Of course, the blood bath in Mexico continues unabated, and this week saw a spate of massacres in multiple incidents by the drug cartels which included 13 gunned down at a drug rehab center in Tijuana, 13 gunned down at a birthday party in Juarez, and 15 gunned down at a car wash in Tepic. And in Los Ramones, "the entire police force in the small north Mexican town . . . has resigned after gunmen riddled the front of their new headquarters with grenades and more than a thousand bullets" as reported by Doug Stanglin for USA Today.
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