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US Army Special Forces Trained Mexican Cartel Members

Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage.

(U.S. BORDER WITH MEXICO) - It was a brutal massacre even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug war: 72 migrant workers gunned down by the "Zetas" - arguably the country's most violent cartel.

The Zetas have a fearsome reputation, but the real surprise comes not in their ruthless use of violence, but in the origins of where they learned the tricks of their bloody trade.

Attention Camp Lejeune Marines: Informational Meetings on Water Contamination

This is your opportunity to get informed about what happened at Camp Lejeune. Meetings will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa; Troy, New York and Tampa, Florida.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - An informational meeting about the CAMP LEJEUNE WATER CONTAMINATION effects will be held Saturday, November 6, 2010, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, located at 107 6th Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

Between sometime in the 1950’s through 1987, the US Military improperly disposed of chemical degreasers and other toxic substances that ultimately contaminated the drinking water at Camp Lejeune.

Most `Veterans `In the Dark` About Environmental Issues

Important information for Marines who served at Camp Lejeune. Veterans Service Organizations like American Legion shun alerting veterans.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) have not notified veterans of their possible exposure to environmental hazards at 130 military installations on the EPA National Priority List (Superfund sites).

There’s a critical need for the VSOs to exercise leadership by identifying the 130 military bases on the NPL, including the EPA internet link to Contaminants of Concern for each base.

`Camp Lejeune A Hearing`

The few, the proud, the Disenfranchised...

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - On 16th September Congressman Brad Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing about Camp Lejeune water contamination.

A live webcast was available and I watched most of the transmission in real time. The press releases on what occurred are very much a matter of record.

Amber Alert Canceled for 10 Year Old North Carolina Girl

If anyone has any information that will assist investigators in finding Zahra, please call the Hickory Police Department at 828-328-5551, or 911.

(HICKORY, N.C.) - Hickory Police, N.C. Police investigators say they are working several leads that specifically address missing girl Zahra Clare Baker's life before she disappeared.

Investigators will interview her former teachers at schools in Caldwell County, NC. The family also lived at several different addresses recently, and investigators will interview those neighbors who may have known the family and Zahra.

AG Roy Cooper - North Carolina`s Wyatt Earp

First in a series highlighting states fighting the epidemic of prescription drug addiction, abuse, death and the "over-treatment of pain" in America.
"My name's Wyatt Earp -- It all ends now!"

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - AG Cooper supports expanding access to state computer records identifying people with prescriptions for certain drugs. Recently in Charlotte, N.C., Cooper called prescription-drug abuse the biggest drug threat today.

He made his remarks at a meeting with law enforcement leaders from North Carolina and 25 other states to discuss better ways to fight illegal drugs.

Hurricane Katrina Survival:
The Fred Holley Story *Documentary

The process to restore all that nature swept away has been painfully slow.

(GULFPORT, Miss.) - There was a night when Hurricane Katrina Survivor Fred Holley, a Vietnam Veteran, wondered if he would ever feed the seagulls along the Gulf Coast again.

I met this man one year after the tragic event, while enroute to cover the war in Afghanistan. He toured me through the devastation of his homeland.

Camp Lejeune`s Sickness and Unexpected Déjà Vu

The people who fight this battle every day are ill veterans and family members. They have no champion, no General, no Admiral.

(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) - “Kidney Cancer – first dad now mom” was the title of the first posting I saw on the Discussion Board of the website “The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten”.

The details of the posting made my heart sink into my boots. Once again, a new member had joined the discussion, looking for information and help. Once again, the story was tragic beyond belief. All as a result of exposure to contamination at Camp Lejeune.

Camp Lejeune Brain Cancer Cases, Lawsuit Filed in District Court

Alabama Marine veteran files suit in District court for the death of one child and the injury to another from Camp Lejeune’s contaminated well water.

(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) - No one wants to see their children die from brain cancer.

VA Quietly Giving Benefits to Marines Exposed to Toxic Water

The public is only now beginning to realize the extent of the contamination.

(WASHINGTON D.C. McClatchy Newspap) - Former Marine Corps Cpl. Peter Devereaux was told about a year ago that he had just two or three years to live.

More than 12 months later, at 48, he still isn’t ready to concede that the cancer that’s wasting his innards is going to kill him. He swallows his pills and suffers the pain and each afternoon he greets his 12-year-old daughter, Jackie, as she steps off her school bus in North Andover, Mass.