KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers continued an assault into the capital's most violent downtown slums on Tuesday, scouring buildings for weapons and battling die-hard defenders of a powerful Jamaican gang leader sought by the U.S....
Jamaica Cops Attack Drug Lord's Slum Stronghold
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 8:16am
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