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Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.

Fair enough.

But this time, it has to be a 2-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans.

Untold trillions have been spent since the '60's on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids?

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are 7 times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70% and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50%? Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3% of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45% of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first 3 years of this decade.

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing. Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

Chicago GOP in Untagged

American Patrol Report -- May 16

California to Cut "Immigrant" Support -- No More Free Money

Facing a budget deficit that is at least $17 billion and growing, California Governor Schwarzenegger has taken the drastic step of proposing to cut more than 36,000 families headed by illegal aliens or drug felons off the CalWORKS welfare program. Under CalWORKS, a single parent family receives about $525 in cash per month. This is in addition to other programs such as food stamps, Medi-Cal, welfare to work, child care and public housing. Some critics call the grants "walking around money."
The free fall of the budget mirrors the decline in California home prices that saw a whopping 26% decline in February, or a rate of $2,788 per week. Home prices in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana fell more than 20% in the first quarter.
Schwarzenegger is proposing to borrow another $15 billion by using state lottery money as a source of repayment, a clear violation of the law that created the lottery.
If voters reject his idea, which is likely, the governor says sales taxes might have to be raised by an added 1% to total 8.25%, and in some cases as high as 9.75%. California already has the highest sales tax rate in the nation.
"This meltdown of California is so severe the liberal media don’t even want to talk about it because they are afraid of the questions it raises." said Glenn Spencer of AmericanPatrol.com .

Associated Press - January 30, 2008 11:54 AM ET

PERU, Ill. (AP) - Police in north-central Illinois discovered ten illegal immigrants during a traffic stop in Peru.

Peru Police Chief Doug Bernabei (BERN'-uh-bee) says the stop came after the Los Angeles man driving the vehicle ran a red light onto Interstate 80 from Route 251 on Monday.

The immigrants are from Mexico and Guatemala.

They were turned over to U.S. Homeland Security agents, and Bernabei expects they'll be deported.

Meanwhile, the driver was issued citations for a pair of traffic violations. And authorities determined he and his front seat passenger were paid to transport the immigrants to locations in the Midwest and eastern U.S.

The pair were turned over to federal authorities and face possible prosecution.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

26 November 2007 at 12:28 PM EST

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Does this sound familiar? Congressman Tancredo has been saying that this could happen, even depicting it in our latest TV ad. The critics accused us of "fear-mongering," what do you think they will say now?

Islamic terrorists target Army base -- in Arizona

By Sara A. Carter - Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.

Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.

"A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the remainder not yet in the United States," according to one of the documents, an FBI advisory that was distributed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, Customs and Border Protection and the Justice Department, among several other law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. "The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners."

Read the whole article here

http://teamtancredo.typepad.com/team_tancredo/2007/1
1/tancredo-was-ri.html

November 26, 2007

http://www.queenstribune.com/news/1192877565.html


By MICHAEL CUSENZA
The long, oak table that anchors the center of the third-floor conference room in the Queens District Attorney’s office was littered Tuesday afternoon with driver’s licenses from various states, reams of blank Social Security cards, resident alien cards, printers, cell phones, laminating machines and other hardware you can pick up at any Staples store.

These were the fruits of a massive, bi-coastal inter-agency investigation of a fraudulent government identity operation whose Queens cells allegedly sold a host of fake documents on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights – considered by law enforcement officials as the epicenter of such activity on the East Coast.

These were the fruits of a massive, bi-coastal inter-agency investigation of a fraudulent government identity operation whose Queens cells allegedly sold a host of fake documents on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights – considered by law enforcement officials as the epicenter of such activity on the East Coast.

Queens DA Richard Brown, joined by officials from various city, state and federal agencies, announced that 41 people have been indicted – 20 are in custody, 21 were still being sought – on charges of operating or participating in two criminal enterprises that took in more than $1.5 million a year by supplying fake government IDs, including resident alien cards, Social Security cards and driver’s licenses, to people across the country.

Among those indicted were Artemio and Julia Medel of California, a notorious husband and wife team that allegedly supplied blank templates of identification documents to individual cells. They are currently awaiting extradition to New York.

“This is perhaps the most important case we’ve seen in this area in a very long time,” Brown said of the two-year investigation. “I’m delighted to announce its successful conclusion.”

Acting State Police Superintendent Preston Felton called the cooperation of the agencies involved – DA’s office, NYPD, State Police, State Dept. of Motor Vehicles, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Social Security Administration – “outstanding.”

“None of this would’ve been possible without the investigators on the ground doing the hard work,” Felton said.

Brown said the investigation began with the formation of an inter-agency taskforce in October 2005 after the DA’s Counter-Terrorism Unit received information culled by the NYPD’s Queens Gang Squad that fake government documents were being manufactured and sold on Roosevelt Avenue.

NYPD Deputy Inspector Robert Boyce reported that at least 12 of the 41 suspects indicted are gang members from popular Hispanic gangs M-18, Surenos 13 or Vatos Locos. Brown said most of the suspects are undocumented residents from Mexico.

According to the DA, street sellers deal directly with buyers and obtain photographs and personal information that are to be placed on the forged documents; runners pick up orders and deliver them to the mill where the documents are created; cutters produce the documents.

Social Security cards typically go for $40; a New York State driver’s license costs $50; and a Dept. of Homeland Security-Immigration and Customs Enforcement resident alien card costs $60.

“A lot of these documents are used to move through society in a false manner,” NYPD Deputy Inspector Robert Boyce said. “A lot of crimes can be committed from these documents.”

Boyce also said identity theft is most often the result of forged ID operations.

Brown hailed the resource-intensive case and called it “a breakthrough because we’ve been able to get the suppliers of the raw materials.”

When asked about the forged New York State driver’s licenses displayed on the conference room table and how this case may have an impact on Gov. Spitzer’s administrative policy change that will give all New Yorkers the opportunity to apply for state driver licenses without regard to immigration status, Brown stuck to the facts.

“As a prosecutor, I enforce the law,” he said, “I don’t make it.”

At their arraignment on Monday, 17 defendants were all remanded to custody without bail. They face felony charges of enterprise corruption, forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, criminal possession of forgery devices and misdemeanor conspiracy.

By DAVID TWIDDY Associated Press Writer
Article Launched: 10/20/2007 04:25:28 PM PDT
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A national Hispanic civil rights organization said Saturday it is pulling its 2009 convention from Kansas City because a member of a group opposed to illegal immigration was appointed to the city's park board.
The National Council of La Raza said its board came to the decision unanimously after being unable to reach an agreement with Mayor Mark Funkhouser over his appointment in June of Frances Semler, a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps.
"Our decision is a clear expression of support for Kansas City's Hispanic community," said board chairwoman Monica Lozano. "An active member of the Minutemen should not be an official representative for a city that purports to believe in diversity."
La Raza officials consider the Minutemen—known for posting sometimes-armed patrols on the Mexican border and picketing construction sites where illegal immigrants may be working—hostile to Hispanics. The Arizona-based organization maintains it simply wants U.S. immigration policies enforced.
Funkhouser, who has stood by Semler throughout the controversy, said Saturday he was disappointed with La Raza's decision.
"We worked awfully hard to try to work out a compromise so they would come," he said in a statement.
Losing the 2009 convention is expected to cost the Kansas City economy an estimated $5 million to $7 million in revenue. It will also be costly for La Raza, which must pay area hotels $75,000 for not
filling reserved blocks of hotel rooms.
Funkhouser met Friday with local Hispanic leaders and a federal mediator to try to resolve the issue. Funkhouser and Rita Valenciano, of the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations, said both sides had agreed not to discuss the session or La Raza's decision.
Officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had also threatened to cancel their 2010 convention planned for Kansas City. Doing so would cost the city an estimated $9 million in lost sales.
NAACP officials said they would consider La Raza's decision in their own deliberations.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_72364
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Kansas City should count their blessing that
these two UN-AMERICAN organizations do not want
to have their conventions in their city. Now if we can just get our government to stop
funding treason organizations.

CAMPAIGN 2008 / REPUBLICANS

BY SUZANNE GAMBOA
Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo wants foreigners seeking visas to join relatives in the U.S. to provide DNA samples to prove their family ties.

The Colorado congressman introduced a bill Tuesday in the House to require the tests, saying documents provided by immigrants to show they are related to U.S. citizens or permanent residents are sometimes sketchy and unreliable.

''This will help protect the integrity of our immigration system,'' said Tancredo, who has based his presidential campaign on curbing immigration. ``It will give us one more tool to make sure that the beneficiaries of these visas are who they say they are.''

Immigrants would pay for the DNA costs through visa application fees under the proposal.

Earlier this month, France's Senate passed an immigration bill that would allow consular officers to request DNA samples from immigrants wanting to join families there.

The U.S. allows spouses, children, parents and siblings of U.S. citizens and spouses and children of permanent residents to apply for visas and green cards to join their relatives in the United States.

Family-based immigration was a hotly contested issue in this year's immigration debate in Congress. A Senate immigration bill that failed to win passage would have limited family-based visas and increased visas granted based on education and work skills.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., an author of a U.S. Senate bill who supports stricter immigration controls, was not ready to endorse Tancredo's bill.

''I was not aware there was a big question whether the chain migration of relatives was potentially bringing in people who are not related,'' Kyl said. ``If this is a big problem, obviously we would want to look at it and understand it, but I don't know this solution proposed by Tom Tancredo would be the right solution.''




Tancredo has the right solution on this one.
A Tancredo/Hunter ticket just might be what we
need.

http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5222944.html

Oct. 17, 2007, 4:30PM

By KELLEY SHANNON Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press

AUSTIN — Escalating violence by drug cartels and deteriorating security in Mexico will make this the most deadly year yet for that nation's drug-related crime as violence keeps spilling into the United States, according to a report released Wednesday.

On the U.S. side of the border, law enforcement has trouble battling drug smuggling and its related violence because of poor coordination, corruption and lack of resources, said the report by the Austin consulting firm Stratfor.

Fred Burton, a former State Department counterterrorism agent and now vice president for counterterrorism with Stratfor, made the report available to fellow members of Gov. Rick Perry's Border Security Council.

"The deteriorating security situation has profound implications not only for Mexico but also for the United States, since drug violence increasingly crosses the border," the report states.

The Houston Chronicle obtained an advance copy of the report, released Wednesday as a follow-up to a similar one by the company last year on Mexican drug cartels.

Throughout the 17-page report, Stratfor describes two of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels, Sinaloa and Gulf, and their turf battles. Despite Mexican President Felipe Calderon's efforts, drug violence has grown, the report said.

There were 1,543 drug-related killings in Mexico in 2005 and more than 2,100 in 2006, and with more than 2,100 estimated since Jan. 1 it will "certainly make this year the deadliest yet," the report states.

The Associated Press reported in August that at least seven killings in Laredo in the last two years were linked to the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels. Rosalio "Bart" Reta, a 17-year-old U.S. citizen and alleged soldier for the Gulf cartel, pleaded guilty this summer to a Laredo killing and still faces charges on others.

Webb County Sheriff Rick Flores said Wednesday's report points out what he and his officers already know firsthand in the Laredo area.

"We know that the warring cartels have the resources, and we know that they have a lot of control over the border communities and we know that the threat is imminent," Flores said. "Yes, we do have spillover violence on this side."

Though corruption in Mexico is often criticized as part of the problem, similar situations exist in the United States along the border, Burton said.

"We're very quick to throw stones inside our own glass house," he said.

The report states: "On the U.S. side, however, the under-reporting of crimes ... and corruption among low- and mid-level U.S. law enforcement officials facilitate the northward spread of cartel activity."

Flores said the report shouldn't have singled out local law enforcement when officers at other levels also "fall victim to this kind of shenanigans."

Conrado Cantu, the former Cameron County sheriff whose territory included the border city of Brownsville, is serving 24 years in federal prison for drug trafficking, extortion and corruption. Three National Guardsmen deployed to the Laredo sector have been charged with human smuggling; one of them has pleaded guilty.

Texas Secretary of State Phil Wilson, a border security council member, said he hadn't read the report yet, but said its description of drug cartel violence "illustrates the importance of what the state of Texas is doing with border security."

The council was set up to help state officials figure out where to spend some of the approximately $100 million the Legislature authorized this year to assist law enforcement along the Mexican border.

Despite a lack of federal money devoted to border security, the state can help in a big way by providing overtime money and equipment upgrades for local law enforcement departments along the border, Burton said.

But Flores said he needs to be able to hire more officers — not just pay overtime — to combat drug violence in his area.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9ZK3lHES
5CA5bxeYCn1jALD1NAQ


Mexico protesters pull down new statue of ex-president Vicente Fox
16 hours ago
BOCA DEL RIO, Mexico - Opposition protesters egged and then tore down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox down today, just hours after it was erected.
Workers put up the commemorative statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state.
But by 9 a-m some 100 angry protesters, many of them members of the Institutional Revolutionary party, or P-R-I, surrounded the figure.
Fox, of the conservative National Action party, ended 71 years of P-R-I rule with his historic election in July 2000.
The crowd launched eggs at the statue, fastened a rope around its neck and pulled it to the ground, breaking off the right hand and damaging the base.
Boca del Rio Mayor Francisco Gutierrez de Velasco, a member of Fox's party, condemned the acts but said municipal police did not intervene because the statue is the state's property.
An inauguration ceremony scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled until further notice.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/14/world/main336
5380.shtml

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9ZK3lHES
5CA5bxeYCn1jALD1NAQ


Mexico protesters pull down new statue of ex-president Vicente Fox
16 hours ago
BOCA DEL RIO, Mexico - Opposition protesters egged and then tore down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox down today, just hours after it was erected.
Workers put up the commemorative statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state.
But by 9 a-m some 100 angry protesters, many of them members of the Institutional Revolutionary party, or P-R-I, surrounded the figure.
Fox, of the conservative National Action party, ended 71 years of P-R-I rule with his historic election in July 2000.
The crowd launched eggs at the statue, fastened a rope around its neck and pulled it to the ground, breaking off the right hand and damaging the base.
Boca del Rio Mayor Francisco Gutierrez de Velasco, a member of Fox's party, condemned the acts but said municipal police did not intervene because the statue is the state's property.
An inauguration ceremony scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled until further notice.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/14/world/main336
5380.shtml

October 02, 2007

Memo From Mexico, By

Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Importing Mexican Quarrels

Allan Wall

In a recent Memo from Mexico column, I

Not only was the convention held as scheduled last Sunday, September 30th, but it was the scene of confrontations between

In other words, not only is mass emigration bringing

The PAN get-together was called "Primer Encuentro Nacional del PAN en Estados Unidos"—"the First National Encounter of the PAN in the United States". "First National Encounter" means they plan to have more

The "encounter" was held at the conference room of La Huasteca restaurant at the Plaza Mexico, in the LA suburb of Lynwood. (For the demographic history of that locale, read here. It was a white working class town that went black around 1970 and became majority Hispanic because of immigration in the 1990s.)

According to La Opinión, nearly 300 delegates attended. They were key activists and leaders of the PAN, which began

Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico? Yes, that Vicente Fox—the one who spent six years promoting

The former president was in classic form at the PAN convention. He said that Mexican migrants in the U.S. are like "little seeds distributed in all the U.S., with great leadership." Just as in

open borders, illegal immigration and the jurisdiction of the Mexican government over Americans of Mexican ancestry.   Now that Fox is no longer president, he is even freer to speak out on the subject. And that’s exactly what he’s doing. his presidential days, Fox bashed U.S. immigration policy: 

"This

construction of a wall. Why is xenophobia guiding the decisions of this great country? It lacks understanding and it lacks vision for not being able to appreciate the value of every migrant."El PAN busca el apoyo de los migrantes en EU, By Eileen Truax, La Opinión, Oct. 1st, 2007]

In case there is anyone our there who hasn’t got the message, this is utter hypocrisy—as I’ve pointed out

Still, not every Mexican in Los Angeles received Vicente Fox with open arms. Far from it.

Over 50 Mexican protestors outside the building attempted to crash the convention and express their disapproval. These protestors included members of the PAN’s Mexican rival—the PRD (

"

Mexican reporter Jaime Hernandez described the scene thusly: "…an army of immigrants arrived to the doors of the Plaza Mexico in the city of Lynwood (considered by some as the sanctuary of mexicanidad) – to condemn the visit of former president Vicente Fox…"[

One of the protestors, Amando Garcia, a PRD activist, was quoted saying this:

"It’s what he deserves. He promised so much to the immigrants and it was precisely during his term when more people were expelled from Mexico for economic reasons."

their report on the protest here.

Outside there were all sorts of protestors, not all on the same sheet of music, and they included local American-born Hispanics whose loyalty is not with the U.S.A. Defending the American point of view though, were the Save our State organization, kudos to them. You can read

The policemen and security guards present (whose nationality was not always clear) did an effective job of keeping protestors out or removing them if they entered.   cont.

Alcanzan a Fox reclamos en EU, By same Vicente Fox who called illegal aliens "heroes" and who based his foreign policy around them? Yep. That same Vicente Fox is being dissed by the same people he so publicly embraced (or utilized).Jaime Hernandez, El Universal, October 1st, 2007]    Now wait a second, is this the Party of the Democratic Revolution). The two parties have brought their quarrel to the streets of LA. Ladron!" [thief] shouted protestors, and "Traidor a la democracia."many times, Mexico’s own immigration policy is highly selective, ruthlessly and arbitrarily enforced, and absolutely not open to foreign meddling. [[the U.S.] has always been a nation of migrants and therefore I don’t understand theoperations north of the border two years ago. Manuel Espino, the chairman of the PAN was there. So was Juan Manuel Oliva, the governor of Guanajuato state. But the real star of the show was none other than Vicente Fox himself.   reported that Mexico’s ruling PAN (National Action Party) had scheduled a convention in Los Angeles, California. PANistas and the party leadership, and between a former Mexican president and protestors.Mexican politics to the U.S.A., it is also bringing Mexican political quarrels.

http://vdare.com/awall/070927_memo.htm
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Mexican politicians have two economic safety valves – oil and emigration. They rely on these to avoid making the difficult decisions.

Tax evasion is rampant in Mexico. It’s been estimated that 40% of businesses and 70% of professionals and small business owners cheat on taxes. It’s been estimated that up to 50% of potential tax revenues go uncollected.

So the government uses state oil monopoly PEMEX as a de facto tax collection agency. Indeed, the state monopoly provides close to 40% of the Mexican government budget.
And since PEMEX can’t be run as a regular oil company, those funds can’t be used in finding and developing new oil sources.

But that oil money won’t last forever. Mexico’s biggest source, the Cantarell field in the Gulf of Mexico, has hit its peak and is now in decline.

Certainly, there is more oil out there, deeper in the Gulf. But PEMEX doesn’t have the technology to exploit it. And Mexico’s foreign investment petroleum laws are more restrictive than those of Cuba, so it’s hard to attract foreign partners.

The Calderon administration recently attempted to fix the fiscal problem, with an ambitious reform that was supposed to crack down on tax evasion, formalize the informal economy, increase tax revenues, and put PEMEX on a sounder financial footing. It sounded great.

Mexico: Anti-Drug Effort Better, Yet Supplies Increase

By MARC LACEY

Published: September 21, 2007

Anti-drug efforts have improved between Mexico and the United States, but thousands of metric tons of illegal narcotics still flow across the border annually and bureaucratic obstacles remain, the Government Accountability Office said in a report. Seizures have not kept pace with the Mexican drug cartels, which now supply cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine throughout the United States and take in as much as $23 billion annually, the study found. Mexico was the transshipment point for 90 percent of the cocaine in the United States in 2005, up from 66 percent in 2000.

Subject:

Denzel Washington

 Denzel Washington, and Brooks Army Medical Center and his family visited
the troops at Brook Army Medical Center , in San Antonio , Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States, especially burn victims. There are some
buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a Hotel where soldiers' families can stay,
for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the Hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses
on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most of the time.

While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build. He took his check book out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot.
The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it.

 

The question I have is why does:

Alec Baldwin, Madonna,Sean Penn and other Hollywood types

make front page news with their anti-everything America trash and

Denzel Washington's Patriotism
doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the Local newspaper in San Antonio.

GOD BLESS YOU DENZEL

 FOR YOUR PATRIOTISM

A true American and

friend to all in uniform!

 

http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnN10306034.h
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Dozens dead in Mexico truck crash and blast

Mon 10 Sep 2007, 13:54 GMT

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Dozens of people died when a trailer-truck loaded with highly flammable chemicals exploded in a road accident in northern Mexico, Mexican media reported on Monday.

The blast left a crater of up to 65 feet (20 meters) in diameter in the road in the northern state of Coahuila, the El Universal daily said on its Web site.

The paper, quoting police, said 37 people were killed when the blast erupted after the trailer-truck hit another truck. But the civil protection agency put the death toll at 25.

"Part of the trailer caught fire after the crash and that's where the explosion came from," said state Gov. Humberto Moreira.

Some 150 people were injured. Most of the people who died, including three newspaper journalists, had rushed to the scene of the crash.

"Reporters who were taking photographs died there as well as emergency workers and drivers who stopped to help," Moreira said.

The trailer-truck was carrying 25 tonnes of a derivative of the volatile ammonium nitrate chemical used for fertilizers, civil protection authorities said. The media had earlier said it had been carrying explosives.