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Big border drug tunnel highlights seasonal trend (AP)

A Mexican army soldier stands next to an elevator shaft that lowers into a tunnel in the northern border city  of Tijuana, Mexico Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011. U.S. authorities said they discovered a new cross-border tunnel Tuesday, the latest in a spate of secret passages found to smuggle drugs from Mexico. The tunnel was found in San Diego's Otay Mesa area, a warehouse district across the border from Tijuana, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Alex Cossio)AP – The investigation into the largest marijuana bust at a cross-border tunnel followed a familiar timeline. It began in May and ended in November.


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Holland Tunnel shootout snarls traffic

A degranged driver was shot by police in the Holland Tunnel Friday after he tried to plow through traffic and run over cops with his car, law-enforcement sources said.

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Police chase ends in shooting inside Holland Tunnel

A police-involved shooting inside the Holland Tunnel on Friday snarled traffic for miles in New Jersey, sources said. Three men in a Jeep refused to stop when a Port Authority cop tried to pull them over and fled into the mouth of the tunnel in Jersey City shortly after 6 p.m., the sources said.

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Taliban tunnel more than 480 out of Afghan prison (AP)

Afghan policemen stand in front of gate of the main prison in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April 25, 2011. Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and the insurgents said Monday. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP – During the long Afghan winter, Taliban insurgents were apparently busy underground.


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Hundreds freed as Taliban tunnel into Afghanistan prison

The Taliban sprung more than 500 fighters and made the Afghan government look foolish Monday by tunneling into the prison – right under the guards’ noses.

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San Diego drug tunnel had railcar, tons of pot (AP)

In this Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a task force agent crouches inside a cross-border tunnel that authorities say was used as an underground drug passage, in San Diego. The tunnel found Thursday is 2,200 feet long, more than seven football fields, and runs from the kitchen of a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to two warehouses in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial district, said Mike Unzueta, head of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. (AP Photo/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)AP – A sophisticated cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail system, ventilation and fluorescent lighting has been shut down by U.S. and Mexican officials — the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month, authorities said Friday.


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More than 20 tons of pot smuggled in border tunnel (AP)

John Morton, left, the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement inspects a bundle of marijuana with Joe Garcia, assistant agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations, at a warehouse along the border between the United States and Mexico where 15 tons of marijuana was seized Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, in San Diego. A 600 yard tunnel was discovered in the warehouse.  (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP – Federal authorities in San Diego have made one of the largest marijuana seizures in the United States, confiscating more than 20 tons of pot that was smuggled into the country through an underground tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of California’s border with Mexico, officials said Wednesday.


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