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Title: 2 Border Patrol agents shot, expected to live
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AZ Central
URL Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0701agentshooting01.html
Published: Jul 1, 2005
Author: Susan Carroll
Post Date: 2005-07-01 10:52:24 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Keywords: expected, Border, Patrol
Views: 140
Comments: 3
2 Border Patrol agents shot, expected to live Susan Carroll Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot by suspected drug smugglers on Thursday afternoon near Nogales but were expected to survive, authorities said. Border Patrol spokesman Jose Garza said the agents were "ambushed" about 12:30 p.m. near Arizona 82 and Dusquene Road. Both were shot in the leg and hospitalized in "stable" condition in Tucson late Thursday. The agents were tracking a group of suspected drug smugglers near the U.S.-Mexican border, said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada. Investigators believe the suspected smugglers fired on the agents as they approached and then fled back to Mexico, Estrada said. No suspects have been arrested in the shooting, which is under investigation by the FBI. Since Oct. 1, the start of the fiscal year, the Border Patrol has recorded 196 assaults on agents, including 24 shootings. In the same time last year, 92 assaults were reported, and only five were shootings, Garza said.
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Jul. 1, 2005 12:00 AM
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#1. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
Family values dont stop at the Rio Grande.. the Gambino crime family values.
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
ping!
"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hey, they're just here to do the ambushes that Americans don't want to do.
#2. To: All, *The Border* (#0)
#3. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
Bush's poster children are very naughty.
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