Violence spikes in Mexico (AP)

A federal police officer looks down the street where a shootout between gunmen and police was held Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008, in Tijuana, northern Mexico.  Soldiers, state and local police were sent in to help control the three-hour confrontation that began when federal agents tried to raid a house, authorities said. (AP Photo)AP - Rosalba Padilla thought the first shots were nothing but construction in her quiet, upper-class Tijuana neighborhood. It wasn’t until she looked out her window and saw a sea of police that she realized the noise was gunfire.

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