Visit the American-Mexican border patrol at El Paso, and the problem is plain.

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The woman's body was found by an American army patrol on Thursday near the south-eastern town of Vitina.

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Also, an American soldier died from combat-related injuries while on patrol in eastern Baghdad.

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The interior ministry is also investigating an incident in which an American patrol reportedly caught a death squad red-handed on its way to kill a prisoner.

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She had been ejected from the Minutemen, a self-appointed border patrol group, and started her own splinter group, the Minutemen American Defence Fund.

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