Saturday, July 17, 2010

Car bomb signals new dimension to Mexican drug war


 Hizbollah rumors, beheadings, and now car bombs.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico's decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday.

Mayor Jose Reyes said federal police have confirmed to him that a car bomb was used in the attack that killed three people Thursday.

It was the first time a drug cartel has used a bomb to attack Mexican security forces, marking an escalation in the country's already raging drug war.

Federal police and paramedics were lured to the scene by a phone call reporting that shots were fired at a major intersection and a municipal police officer lay wounded at a major intersection, Reyes told The Associated Press.

As the paramedics were working on the wounded man, a parked car exploded, he said.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Hizbollah rumors, beheadings, and now car bombs."

Because when you call it a ROP, reality goes "pop".

revereridesagain said...

This is very obviously not just a "drug war" anymore, and I do not underestimate the ferocity of drug wars. The stakes have been upped somehow.

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