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(ANTARA News/AFP) - The United States is sending new CIA operatives and retired
military personnel to Mexico and may deploy private security contractors to
fight drug cartels, The New York Times said.
Small
numbers of CIA operatives and civilian US military employees have been posted
at a Mexican military base, it said late Saturday.
Security
officials from both countries work there side by side in collecting information
about drug cartels and helping plan operations, the report said.
Officials
are also looking into embedding a team of American contractors inside a
specially vetted Mexican counternarcotics police unit, it said.
The new
efforts have been devised to get around Mexican laws prohibiting foreign
military and police from operating on its soil.
They also
aim to prevent advanced US surveillance technology from falling under the
control of Mexican security agencies with long histories of corruption, the
paper noted.
More than
41,000 people have died in violence blamed on Mexico`s drug cartels since the
end of 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed some 50,000 troops to
tackle organized crime.
Editor: Jafar M Sidik
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