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Sat 09 Sep 2008THE TERROR AT HOME
It is the most feared gang in the world. Its activities are now being classed as urban terrorism. It has 100,000 members - some as young as 13. Ken Murrayrecently spent a day on patrol with the Los Angeles Police Department in one of the US's toughest neighbourhoods, where officers wage a daily battle to contain the fearless MS-13
'YOU ONLY GAIN RESPECT by the viciousness of your actions." These are not the words of an irate Marlon Brando in The Godfather, but the actual rhetoric of senior members in MS-13, the name of the biggest urban gang on the American continent.
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