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Friday, January 28, 2011

The Border Arms Race Intensifies: A Slingshot



John sends this:
In what seems like a scene straight out of a Monty Python movie, Mexican soldiers seized a giant catapult believed to have been used to fling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Acting on a tip from the U.S. Border Patrol, the Mexican military confiscated 45 pounds of marijuana, an SUV and a metal-framed catapult just south of the border with Arizona last Friday. The U.S. tip was based on surveillance video of the border region, recorded by National Guard troops deployed to help U.S. border guards. ... The men who had been spotted testing the device managed to run off before Mexican soldiers were able to catch them.

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