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25 August 2010
COLOMBIA: After 3 Deaths, Facebook Threats Frighten Town.
BBC/ Three deaths and many death threats posted on FACEBOOK against some 90 teens and young adults in the town of Puerto Asis have several families fleeing the area. The first hit list appeared after the 15 Aug murders of two of threatened young people. An official speculates that the threats are a strategy by drug traffickers to gain control of new territory.