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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Arellano's arrest location challenged

Captain questioned on yacht's position
By Kelly Thornton
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 24, 2007

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – The captain of the yacht on which suspected drug kingpin Francisco Javier Arellano Félix was arrested last summer has become the center of a fascinating legal debate with international political implications.

Capt. Edgar Omar Osorio took the witness stand yesterday during an unusual pretrial hearing, and questions by Arellano's lawyers seemed to lead in one direction: Did the arrest take place in international waters, as prosecutors maintain, or did U.S. officials apprehend him outside their jurisdiction, in Mexican waters?

Perhaps the more important question is, does it matter where the Aug. 14 arrest occurred?

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