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- NATION, Page 27American NotesLAW ENFORCEMENTNabbing a Hit Man
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- Under a torrential downpour, Dandeny Munoz Mosquera spoke
- into a pay phone outside a Queens flower shop. A team of agents
- from the Drug Enforcement Administration watched him from a
- parked car across the street. Before he knew what was happening,
- Munoz Mosquera suddenly had a dozen guns pointed at his head.
- "We have captured the single most trusted hit man of the Medellin
- cartel," announced New York DEA chief Robert Bryden. Munoz
- Mosquera is believed to have killed 40 Colombian officers,
- government officials, witnesses and innocent bystanders, and may
- have masterminded the 1989 murder of presidential candidate Luis
- Carlos Galan.
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- The DEA believes he arrived in Los Angeles two weeks ago,
- then flew to New York City. Agents immediately launched a
- round-the-clock search to head him off before President Bush,
- top Colombian officials and dozens of other dignitaries -- any
- of whom might have been potential targets -- arrived in New York
- City for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.
- Munoz Mosquera will probably be extradited to Colombia to face
- trial on charges of murder and robbery.
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