NAPOLITANO MEETS WITH PERES IN ISRAEL

IT IS TIME TO FREE POLLARD
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141523

REVELATION 9:1-2
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Partial Solar Eclipse on Tuesday Morning
by Elad Benari JAN 4,11

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday morning. The eclipse will also be seen in Israel, starting at around 9:00am local time and reaching its maximum at about 10:41am. At the peak of the eclipse, about 60 percent of the sun will be covered. It will be another 16 years before the next eclipse of this kind.A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth and fully or partially covers the sun as viewed from a location on earth. At least two and up to five solar eclipses occur each year, of which no more than two can be total eclipses.The last total eclipse was seen on July 11, 2010, and the next one will be seen on November 13, 2012.Last January there was a partial solar eclipse during which 23 percent of the sun was covered by the moon. That eclipse was an annular eclipse, which occurs when the sun and moon are exactly in line but the apparent size of the moon is smaller than that of the sun, making the sun appear as a very bright ring surrounding the outline of the Moon. The next annular eclipse will occur on May 20, 2012.

Caution should be exercised if observing the eclipse, since looking directly at the photosphere of the sun can cause permanent damage to the retina of the eye due to the intense visible and invisible radiation that the photosphere emits. This damage can result in permanent impairment of vision and even in blindness.As such, one should never stare directly at the sun, even during an eclipse, with unprotected eyes. One safe method to observe the eclipse is to reflect the image of the sun onto the side of a building using a mirror. Viewing an eclipse through any kind of optical aid such as binoculars or a telescope is also extremely hazardous and can cause irreversible eye damage in a fraction of a second.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

More TSA Lies In Attempt To Cover Up Security Failures - Claims that leaked security failure figures are outdated are easily debunked Steve Watson Infowars.com
Monday, January 3, 2011

The TSA has once again reverted to lies in an attempt to protect its new security theatre show control measures, claiming that recent reports of 70% security failure rates are no longer accurate.Just over a fortnight ago we reported on the revelations that TSA agents are now so busy groping and irradiating airline passengers that they are routinely missing the presence of bombs and guns in both tests and live situations.After ABC News covered the story of an Iranian/American businessman expressing his disbelief at being allowed onto a flight with a loaded handgun, it was widely reported in the media that such TSA failures were commonplace.

It was noted that screeners detect less than 30% of the knives and guns that officials try to sneak through security in tests. Failures to detect explosive material and bomb parts were also disturbingly high, according to the reports.This underscores how the newly enhanced and invasive TSA security procedures are pure theatre and actually do nothing to make anyone safer. Indeed, it may be argued that the procedures are putting fliers in more danger as screeners are spending more time groping people and ordering them through x-ray body scanners than checking for potentially dangerous items in their hand luggage.In a belated response, the now infamous TSA blogger Bob, who previously claimed that despite thousands of complaints from passengers, there was no fondling, squeezing, groping, or any sort of sexual assault taking place at airports, says that the security failure rate figures widely covered by the media are no longer relevant.

The TSA blog describes the security failure reports as all misleading and outdated, claiming that the figures cited were taken from tests carried out in 2004-2005.Not true Bob.As highlighted by The Economist’s business travel blog:The ABC News report Gulliver linked to last month didn’t rely on 2004, 2005, or 2006 numbers—it referenced a person briefed on the latest tests who said they have a failure rate of 70%.In addition, TSA head John Pistole made the following comments less than a month ago during an interview on Good Morning America:… unfortunately, [undercover testers] have been very successful over the years. And one of the findings is that we have not been thorough enough. And the concern obviously is, if that’s an Abdulmutallab — a Christmas Day bomber — who is doing it rather than an undercover agent, then that can have catastrophic results.

Of course, very few people actually know what the current rate of TSA security failures are, because the Department of Homeland Security has classified the results of the most recent random, covert red team tests, where undercover agents try to see what they can get past airport security. The reason they have done so is presumably because the results have been so shockingly and consistently bad for the past nine years.If the figures had improved significantly then you can rest assured that the TSA would be forcing them down our throats as justification for enhanced airport tyranny, rather than declaring them top secret and locking them away from public view.As The Economist’s Gulliver blog states the agency can’t have it both ways. If TSA officials are going to imply that the situation has improved since the last inspector general and GAO reports were leaked to the press, they should prove it.

However, it seems the agency would rather send out an anonymous blogger named Bob to attack anyone who points out the absurdly obvious where the TSA’s security theatrics are concerned.Once again this shows that the TSA and Homeland Security are willingly resorting to outright lies in a pathetic attempt to bolster their ailing control agenda. Those making official statements on behalf of the legions of strip search goon squads clearly have little regard for the safety of Americans.

Napolitano Meets with Peres in Jerusalem
by Chana Ya'ar JAN 3,11

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano arrived Monday in Israel on a multi-city tour to assess security measures for U.S.-bound flights.Napolitano, who was originally scheduled to arrive Wednesday, is expected to remain several days, during which she will review security procedures at Ben-Gurion International Airport.
She traveled directly to Jerusalem to meet with President Shimon Peres at the Presidential Residence.The two discussed strengthening strategic cooperation between Israel and the U.S. in the field of Homeland Security, according to a statement from the president's office. They also discussed various aspects of the peace process between Israel and its neighbors, the statement said.Insecurity is not homemade but comes from outside, has a global character, is original and concerns the defense of innocent people, Peres said at the beginning of the meeting. For us it is a key issue.Napolitano responded with the standard affirmation of the strong and enduring partnership between the United States and Israel. She added that she was in the country to see that all the things we are doing in partnership from aviation and cyber security to security-focused science and technology research, is being done in a productive and robust fashion.

The focus on increased security in American aviation comes a year after an attempt by the international Al-Qaeda terrorist organization to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.Various media had reported that Napolitano would skip the trip due to fears that terrorists might repeat the 2009 Christmas bombing attempt by a Nigerian national.Security at BGI is considered to be the most effective in world aviation, although some groups do not like the policy of racial profiling used as part of the security system.New increased Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security measures for passengers flying to the United States were announced Monday ahead of Napolitano's visit.Included among the new measures were physical searches of passengers holding passports from Cuba and 13 Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. In addition, passengers will have to pass through metal detectors, and all luggage will be x-rayed.The latter two practices have been standard operating procedure at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport, as well as at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, for years. In addition, anyone who cannot pass a specialized set of security questions posed to each passenger is removed from the general queue for special processing, which usually includes a physical search.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

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MORNING,NEWS,STATS

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Dow +20 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -10 points at low today.
Dow +27 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,387.50.OIL opens at $90.69 today.
GOLD DOWN $40.00 TODAY.WHAT ARE THE NWOERS UP TO.

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Dow -27 points at low today.
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GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,427.40 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Suspicion Over Mass Bird Deaths Tops Google Trends
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, January 3, 2011

Suspicion over the real cause of a mass die-off of birds and fish in Arkansas is running rampant after the story topped Google Trends today following our article which asked whether secret government testing was behind the carnage.Bird government testing, shot to number one on Google Trends, which ranks the most popular search queries on the web.Alex Jones’ film Endgame, which documents countless examples of biological testing and other unwitting experiments conducted by governments in pursuit of bacteriological warfare and population control, also hit number two on the search rankings.Our article was also picked up by the popular Drudge Report website as the story became the hottest topic on the Internet.

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east(CHINA,N&S KOREA,JAPAN,TAIWAN ETC)might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER)(TO THE MIDEAST TO FIGHT IN WW3-2ND WAVE WERE 1/3RD OF EARTHS POULATION DIE BY NUKES).

REVELATION 9:17-18
17 and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

Greece to build wall on EU-Turkey border-The fence may become a symbol of EU antipathy towards Turkey (Photo: Pulpolux)ANDREW RETTMAN 03.01.2011 @ 09:24 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Greek government plans to build a wall along its 206-km-long land border with Turkey to help keep out unwanted migrants on the model of the US' border with Mexico.Greek junior minister for citizen protection, Christos Papoutsis, a former EU commissioner for energy, made the announcement in an interview with the Athens News Agency on Friday (31 December), saying: Co-operation with other EU states is going well. Now we plan to construct a fence to deal with illegal migration.The Greek society has reached its limits in taking in illegal immigrants ... We are absolutely determined on this issue. Additionally, we want to provide a decisive blow against the migrant smuggling rings that trade in people and their hopes for a better life,he added.Mr Papoutsis compared the planned construction to the 1,050-km-long fence running through sections of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas on the Mexico-US border. Built at a cost of €1.8 billion over the past five years and backed-up by cameras, radar surveillance, jeep-mounted patrols and predator drones, the 4.5-metre-high metal wall initially raised howls of protest on humanitarian and environmental grounds, but has since gained widespread public support in the US.The EU and Turkey have not reacted to the Greek plan, even though it has the potential to cause upset.The Union frequently voices complaints against Israel's anti-Palestinian wall, while slow progress in EU-Turkey accession talks and historic Greek-Turkish tensions could see the new barrier become a symbol of EU antipathy toward its southern neighbour.

For its part, the European Commission in mid-December said it will extend until 2 March 2011 its Rabit (Rapid Intervention Border Teams) mission and spend €9.8 million over the next six months on easing conditions in Greek migrant detention camps and on sending asylum and migration consultants to Athens.The Rabit mission consists of 175 armed guards sent from 25 EU member states under the command of the Union's Warsaw-based Frontex border control agency.Greece is the main entry-point into the EU for irregular migrants from Africa and Asia. Noting the impact of the Rabit intervention, Brussels said that 7,586 people were intercepted on the Greek border in October prior to its deployment, compared to 4,270 in November after it was put in place.EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom in a statement on 15 December called on Athens to improve conditions in its detention centres, which were described as inhuman and degrading by the UN and by Amnesty International late last year.The Greek authorities are benefiting from European solidarity through a package of financial and practical assistance and I urge them to put all necessary measures in place to assist the persons in need,she said.

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Leading firms seek sanctions against EU president Hungary
VALENTINA POP 03.01.2011 @ 09:29 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSSELS - Thirteen European companies have written a joint letter to the EU commission asking for sanctions against Hungary over a set of special taxes imposed on foreign investors. The row comes just as Budapest takes over the rotating EU presidency and comes on top of an existing controversy over its strict media law.
The five-page letter addressed to EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso called on Brussels to convince the Hungarian government of the importance of having stable legal conditions for investors and of making Budapest withdraw its unfair taxes, the Sunday (2 January) edition of Germany's Die Welt newspaper reported. The signatories include the heads of Germany's energy giants RWE and E.ON, Deutsche Telekom, German insurer Allianz, the Dutch ING bank, French insurance firm Axa, Czech energy company CEZ and Austria's energy champion OMV, all of which have threaten to withdraw their investments from the central European country.The letter, dated 15 December, says that Deutsche Telekom alone stands to lose up to €100 million euro as a result of recently-imposed retroactive taxes on foreign investors designed to reduce Hungary's public deficit. According to the company chiefs, the new taxes could yield €1.3 billion for cash-strapped Budapest.

Speaking to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, German economy minister Rainer Bruederle said it was fundamentally problematic for the EU internal market that an EU country should harvest funds in this way from foreign companies. Berlin has already raised these concerns with the Hungarian government and will follow this issue closely also through the EU commission, he added.If the commission decides that Hungary is in breach of EU law, it may refer the case to the European Court of Justice. The court has the power to oblige EU countries to change their laws and to levy fines. The process - known as infringement procedure - is lengthy and can be halted at any time if the Hungarian government falls into line voluntarily.The tax row, with its implication of un-European behaviour, will contribute to the unpleasant atmosphere at the start of Hungary's EU presidency.Budapest took over the rotating office on 1 January amid widespread criticism of a new media law which gives greater powers to a media council to sanction broadcasters for publishing material that is not politically balanced or offends human dignity.Under the headline The Putinisation of Hungary, in reference to Russia's authoritarian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the leading US newspaper, the Washington Post, ran an editorial on 26 December saying that the EU may be regretting its rotating presidency system.That's because the gavel will be handed to Hungary, whose populist and power-hungry government has just adopted a media law more suited to an authoritarian regime than to a Western democracy,it said.Meanwhile, US rapper Ice-T has become the subject of the first case handled by the new media body after his explicitly-worded songs were broadcast before 9pm by a local radio station.I love it! The world still fears me. hahaha! he posted on his Twitter account.

Two Staff Members at UK Consulate in Jerusalem Arrested
by Elad Benari JAN 4,11

Two local staff members at the UK consulate in Jerusalem have been arrested by Israeli authorities on suspicion of selling weapons to Hamas terrorists, officials reported on Monday.The BBC reported that the two men, who were maintenance workers at the consulate, were arrested over their alleged links to a plan to fire a rocket at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium. The plan was disclosed by the Israel Security Agency on Sunday. It was also revealed that two Jerusalem Arabs were arrested after they carried out surveillance from a hill overlooking the stadium in order to find the best place to launch rockets at it.BBC said that the two UK consulate workers who were arrested had allegedly obtained weapons for the other two men who were accused of planning the attack.

I can confirm that two members of the local staff at the consulate general in Jerusalem have been arrested by Israeli authorities, a Foreign Office spokesman told AFP on Monday. We understand from reports that they have been charged with the illegal sale of weapons and we are seeking confirmation of these charges. It is an ongoing legal process.The Foreign Office refused to comment on the report that the two were connected to the terror plot, but a spokesman said the arrests of the staff members was not connected to their work at the consulate.Amir Ofek, spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in London, told The Associated Press on Monday that he believes the two British consulate employees are linked to the Hamas plot to launch rockets at the Teddy Stadium.We are trying to figure out exactly what was their relation to this group of Hamas activists, he said.The spokesman for Britain’s Foreign Office told The Associated Press that the men were arrested last month and added the two were local hires and not British nationals. He also emphasized that Britain has confidence in the vetting process for all its employees at consulates and embassies. He added that this process is under constant review and that events like these arrests will be looked at as part of the continual review.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Vegas gets snow while storm strands Calif. drivers
By CRISTINA SILVA, Associated Press – Mon Jan 3, 10:51 pm ET

LAS VEGAS – Gamblers on the Las Vegas Strip awoke to snow flurries Monday morning as part of a winter storm that turned the main highway between Southern and Central California into a snowy, icy parking lot.Hundreds of motorists returning from the New Year's holiday found themselves stuck after Interstate 5 was closed for a second day over the 4,160-foot-high Tejon Pass, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles.The California Highway Patrol closed a 30-mile stretch of the freeway shortly after 12:30 p.m. Sunday because of blowing snow. Blizzard conditions eased to light snow flurries early Monday but the road remained clogged with snow and patches of ice.The Highway Patrol finally started escorting vehicles over the pass Monday afternoon in groups of about 500. Traffic was flowing normally by late afternoon as weather conditions improved.It took us two hours to go five miles, said Charlie Crandall, who was trying to return north after visiting relatives in San Diego. He and a friend were lucky enough to find nearby hotel rooms Sunday night, but hundreds more didn't get lodging, and the cars kept coming.

A lot of people slept in their cars, said Crandall, 55.Other drivers spent hours crawling over Interstate 15's snowy Cajon Pass to get back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, where there was a trace of snow Monday at the official measuring station near McCarran International Airport.You don't come to Las Vegas and think, Hey, it's going to snow,said Josh Hansen, 22, of Los Angeles, who was posing with friends amid flurries next to the iconic Welcome to Las Vegas sign. It's really weird.National Weather Service meteorologist John Adair said there won't be any accumulation near the hotels and casinos, but foothills neighborhoods several miles west of the Strip got one or more inches of snow, and up to 6 inches of snow fell overnight in Pahrump, a high desert community about 60 miles west of Las Vegas.Snow flurries typically fall in Las Vegas several times a year. The city's snowfall record was set Jan. 4-5, 1974, when 9 inches fell in 24 hours.The weather service predicted more snow Monday at elevations as low as 1,500 feet. On Sunday, suburban Santa Clarita just north of Los Angeles got a rare snowfall.

In Montana and North Dakota, Amtrak expected to resume normal service Monday after a weekend weather stoppage. Snow, freezing temperatures and subzero wind chills had led Burlington Northern Santa Fe to halt passenger traffic on its tracks, while freight trains ran at slower speeds.In Utah, officials found the body of a missing hiker Monday morning after the search was halted late Sunday because of cold and dangerous conditions.The man fell 80 and 100 feet to his death from a cliff ledge in Snow Canyon State Park north of Santa Clara, KSTU-TV reported. He was among a group of three hikers who became stranded on a hazardous climb.Authorities rescued the two other men Sunday, Washington County Sheriff-elect Cory Pulsipher told The Spectrum of St. George.Associated Press writer Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

Landslides, floods kill 5 children in Philippines
– Mon Jan 3, 6:08 am ET

MANILA, Philippines – Landslides and floods after days of heavy rain in the Philippines killed five children and an adult, officials said Monday. Three girls are missing.The dead included a 1-year-old baby and his 5-year-old sister who were buried by a landslide as they slept in the central Philippines' St. Bernard township.
More than 1,300 townspeople have sought shelter in a gymnasium and schools after the landslide hit Sunday, Mayor Rico Rentuza said. The town in Southern Leyte province had one of the Philippines' worst disasters in 2006 when a mudslide buried the entire village of Guinsaugon, with more than 1,000 people.The body of a 3-year-old boy, a neighbor of the siblings, was found Monday, said Angel Gaviola, the regional civil defense director. Rescuers pulled a 7-year-old survivor from the debris, but his condition was unknown Monday evening.

A 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy drowned in two other flooded towns of Southern Leyte, Gaviola said.In the southern Philippines, a 60-year-old woman was killed in a landslide and three missing girls were last seen playing near a swollen river, said Senior Supt. Aaron Aquino, police chief of Compostela Valley province. The girls are between 6 and 8 years old.The woman's body was retrieved Monday after her house in the gold-mining area of Mt. Diwalwal was buried Sunday night, Aquino said.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Severed head hung from bridge in Tijuana, Mexico
JAN 4,11

TIJUANA, Mexico – The severed head of a young man was found hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Monday.The Baja California state attorney general's office said the head belonged to a man between 25 and 30 years old.It had several bullet wounds and was hung using a metallic ring and a nylon rope. A threatening message was found nearby on the bridge.Hours earlier, a woman between 30 and 35 years old was found shot to death in another Tijuana neighborhood, also with a threatening message left nearby.Authorities have blamed recent cartel-style violence in Tijuana on feuding between rivals and loyalists of Teodoro El Teo Garcia Simental, an alleged drug lord arrested last January.Farther east along Mexico's border with the United States, Mexican soldiers on Monday found an unfinished tunnel under a house in the city of Nogales, across from Nogales, Arizona.The army's 45th Military Zone command said the tunnel was dug about 5 feet (1.5 meters) beneath the surface and stretched almost 100 feet (30 meters), apparently just far enough to reach U.S. territory.The command said in a statement the tunnel ended abruptly and had probably been intended to move drugs across the border.The mouth of the tunnel was found in one of the rooms of the house in Mexico, which appeared abandoned. There were no arrests nor were any drugs found at the scene.

Nogales is located in northern Sonora state, and on Monday unidentified gunmen shot to death the state's interim prison director, Erasto Ortiz Valencia, outside his home.State prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga said Ortiz Valencia died of three bullet wounds. He had been in office only 10 days when he died; his predecessor was fired after he was linked to the escape of a murder suspect.The assistant police chief of the city of Empalme, near the coastal city of Guaymas, was also shot to death Monday by a gunmen who fired an assault rifle from an SUV.In the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, police reported Monday that two boys ages 14 and 17 were shot to death in the remote mountain town of Alcozahuca, near the Oaxaca state line.The assailants fled after killing the boys with assault rifles late Sunday. While there was no immediate evidence the killings were drug-related, Mexican cartels have been recruiting youths as young as 14.Also in Guerrero, police in the resort of Acapulco reported Monday they had found the bound bodies of four young men dumped on a main boulevard.The men had been killed with guns and knives and were found blindfolded and their hands or feet tied. Handwritten messages of the kind frequently left by drug cartels were found near the bodies, but Guerrero state police, in keeping with policy, did not release the contents of those messages.