The Federal Government should designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations under US law according to Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County Arizona which is situated close to the US border with Mexico. Sheriff Babeu reiterated that the US Government needs to deploy military advisors and special forces units to the border in support of the both state and county law enforcement agencies in the concrete fight back against organized crime and the tragic violence that ensues. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is understood to have stated last September that the situation in Mexico was looking "more and more" like Colombia of two decades ago, "where the narco-traffickers controlled certain parts of the country." Finally Sheriff Babeu warned that the further destabilization of the Mexican government will open the border for criminal elements to come in and buy their way into the United States which should now be regarded as a serious national security issue to be confronted with the committed support of the mighty US military industrial complex. In a sensational twist the Justice Department's money-laundering probe against banking giant HSBC Holdings Plc is looking at possible prosecution of individual bankers a source close to this major cross border investigation said on Thursday. Some believe that if the bank is found to have laundered dirty money HSBC could pay a record $500 million fine as the Justice Department may look to make an example of the bank. The ...