Car bomb marks new, bloody phase in Mexico's war with drug gangs
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The bloody drug wars ravaging Mexico took a bloody turn for the worse this week.
For the first time in the decades-old battle between drug gangs and the government, a car bomb was used to kill police.
Members of a drug gang in Ciudad Juarez Thursday baited federal officers and paramedics by dressing a wounded man in a police uniform and calling the cops to say an officer had been shot.
When the officers reached the decoy cop, the gang blew up a car holding more than 20 pounds of explosives.
The fake cop, a paramedic and a federal officer died in the blast.
The La Linea gang, which was blamed for the kidnapping and killing of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband back in March, detonated the bomb, police said.
Graffiti in Ciudad Juarez supposedly posted by the gang said they would strike again.
"We have more car bombs," they wrote.
The mayor of Ciudad Juarez said his city is on alert for more attacks.
"We've started changing all our protocols, to include bomb situations," Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told the Associated Press.
The mayor also feared that the car bombing could trigger cops to quit or retire.
He said at least 14 police officers had been killed in the last few weeks.
Ciudad Juarez is on the Mexican border with Texas, right across from El Paso and is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, with more than 4,000 people killed since 2009, according to government estimates.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/07/17/2010-07-17_car_bomb_marks_new_b...
For the first time in the decades-old battle between drug gangs and the government, a car bomb was used to kill police.
Members of a drug gang in Ciudad Juarez Thursday baited federal officers and paramedics by dressing a wounded man in a police uniform and calling the cops to say an officer had been shot.
When the officers reached the decoy cop, the gang blew up a car holding more than 20 pounds of explosives.
The fake cop, a paramedic and a federal officer died in the blast.
The La Linea gang, which was blamed for the kidnapping and killing of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband back in March, detonated the bomb, police said.
Graffiti in Ciudad Juarez supposedly posted by the gang said they would strike again.
"We have more car bombs," they wrote.
The mayor of Ciudad Juarez said his city is on alert for more attacks.
"We've started changing all our protocols, to include bomb situations," Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told the Associated Press.
The mayor also feared that the car bombing could trigger cops to quit or retire.
He said at least 14 police officers had been killed in the last few weeks.
Ciudad Juarez is on the Mexican border with Texas, right across from El Paso and is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, with more than 4,000 people killed since 2009, according to government estimates.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/07/17/2010-07-17_car_bomb_marks_new_b...
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