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Mexican Invasion Title: More Civilians Killed Last Year in One Mexican Border Town Than in All of Afghanistan (CNSNews.com) - More civilians were killed last year in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city across the border from El Paso, Texas, than were killed in all of Afghanistan. There were 3,111 civilians murdered in the city of Juarez in 2010 and 2,421 in the entire country of Afghanistan. On a per capita basis, a civilian was 30 times more likely to be murdered last year in Juarez, where there are 1,328,017 people according to Mexico’s 2010 census, than in Afghanistan, where there are 29,121,286 people according to the CIA World Factbook. The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan in 2010 was compiled by the Congressional Research Service and published in a CRS report released on Feb. 3. The number of civilians killed in Juarez in 2010 was compiled by Molly Molloy, a research librarian at New Mexico State University who maintains a count of murders in Juarez and publishes it on the Frontera List website. Molloy’s work on civilian murders in Juarez was also referenced in a recent CRS report on Mexican drug cartels. Much of the violence in Juárez is sparked by drug trafficking organizations battling over one of the major smuggling corridors into the United States. In Afghanistan, the U.S. is in the tenth year of a war that has continued since the U.S. invaded the country in late 2001 to overthrow the Taliban regime that had given sanctuary to al Qaeda and to prevent al Qaeda from using that country as a base for terrorist attacks against the United States. U.S. forces suffered 497 casualties in Afghanistan last year, making 2010 the deadliest year of the war. Through Dec. 31, 2010, U.S. forces had suffered a total of 1,358 casualties throughout the course of the war. The CRS said that of the 2, 421 civilian killed in Afghanistan in 2010, more than 60 percent were killed by “anti-government elements, which include the Taliban and other individuals or groups who engage in armed conflict with the government of Afghanistan or members of the International Military Forces.” “Pro-government forces caused 21% of the total civilian deaths,” said CRS. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest I've been to Juarez more then once. It was a long time ago. I would be afraid to go there now. What is very interesting that El Paso Texas, which is right across the border was recently named the United States safest big city.
#2. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0) (Edited) This is a consequence of the so-called war on drugs. Legalize marijuana and much of this goes away. Legalize cocaine (Mexicans don't harvest cocaine but they work with Columbians to distribute it) and almost all of the violence goes away. Alcohol prohibition in the U.S. created the Mafia. Drug prohibition created the drug cartels. Sure, if drugs are legal more people may use them. Those problems pale in comparison to the problems we face today on the border and in our large cities. "Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899 #3. To: jwpegler (#2) Weed maybe. Cocaine, no way.
#4. To: A K A Stone (#3) Weed maybe. Cocaine, no way. I don't take either and never will. I've never even seen cocaine. But, the fact remains that the damage that the drug lords have done to our cities and our border far outweighs any damage that a small increase in usage would do as a result of legalization. "Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899 #5. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0) Only if you believe US stats on the Afghans. And you don't believe those, do you? See Petreus blames Mothers for torching own babies for details.
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