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Mexico Seizes Drug Catapults on US Border

   VOA News  January 29, 2011

   Mexican  authorities  have  found another medieval-style catapult that
   drug  traffickers  are  using  to  fling  their  goods into the United
   States.

   Mexican security forces discovered a catapult Thursday in Agua Prieta,
   a border town near Douglas, Arizona.

   Last  week  Mexican  authorities  seized a drug catapult in Naco, near
   Tucson, Arizona.

   Officials  say  the  the catapulting operation in Naco was recorded on
   National  Guard surveillance video.  Authorities say the Guard passed
   the  information along to Tucson's border patrol, who alerted Mexico.Â
   Officials  say  more  than  20 kilograms of marijuana was found at the
   site.

   Mexican    drug   traffickers   have   already   been   caught   using
   remote-controlled   planes,   rail   cars   in   ventilated   tunnels,
   semi-submersible  vessels,  and  hidden  compartments  in  vehicles to
   smuggle drugs into the United States.

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