Brazillian gang threatens to bring down soccer World Cup

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The largest and most organized criminal organization in Brazil has threatened to unleash a "World Cup of Terror" during the world's biggest soccer stage in the summer of 2014.

Just eight months before Brazil hosts the World Cup, Brazilian police have intercepted phone calls using wiretaps from the First Capital Command (PCC) drug cartel threatening a series of attacks during the World Cup if the government decides to transfer some of its gang members to prisons spread across the South American country, according to Brazilian newspaper Estadao.

The PCC was formed in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, and operates within the country's prison system. Using cell phones, lawyers and corrupt officials, the criminal gang has managed to grow to an estimated 11,000 members and gain control of the country's major drug trafficking routes between Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay...

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2013/10/16/brazil-largest-cartel-threatens-world-cup-terror/

 

[renard_ruse]

Last year they murdered over 100 police offices in retaliation for transferring one of their leaders to isolation.

 

[renard_ruse]

Its been a bad year for FIFA.

 

[renard_ruse]

The "world game" held hostage by a gang of street hoodlums.

 

[renard_ruse]

These are some seriously hardcore dudes...

 

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[KingOrfeo]

So what? Let's talk sports!

Well, actually . . . let us not, for all the rest of American history, please.

 

[renard_ruse]

I'd say its time to start re-thinking those plane and hotel reservations for the games.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I'd say its time to start re-thinking those plane and hotel reservations for the games.

No, it's time to start re-thinking the existence of the games.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

It's gonna be hard to get happy if we lose the World Cup. And hard to measure the impact it will have on my life.