WORLD: DID IRANIAN MUSLIMS ATTACK INDIA AND THAILAND WITH CHINA’S APPROVAL?
AS CHINESE LEADER COMES TO WAHINGTON TO TALK ABOUT SYRIA, IRANIAN PROBLEMS, THEIR IRANIAN FRIENDS ATTACK ISRAELIS ON CHINESE ENEMY SOIL: INDIA AND THAILAND. OH, WHAT A WEB THEY WEAVE.
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Channel 2 tried several times unsuccessfully to schedule an interview with the imam, or mosque leader. When Channel 2 showed up at the mosque, the imam said he felt Owens’ complaints to the county were harassment. “I don’t want to talk please, and we don’t need to. Someone is harassing us, and you’re helping him,” said Imam Mohammad Enamul Haque.
“People are free to assemble and pray peacefully, and that’s what they have been doing and they have no intention of changing their behavior,” said attorney M. Khurram Baig.
Owens said it’s not about prayers, it’s about property. ”Once they’re cited, they need to correct the problem. Just don’t pay the fine and continue to do it,” said Owens. The judge had given the mosque until last Wednesday to tear down the existing structures, but that has not happened.
Have you heard about Barack Hussein Obama’s newest Muslim Outreach Program?
Posted: February 14, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Laughing at Islam | 12 Comments »
It’s called Adopt-a-Muslim-Extremist and the entire cost is tax deductible.
THAILAND: Muslims in the South are slaughtering Buddhists in order to ethnically cleanse the area (WARNING: Graphic Images)
Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Religion of Hate | 67 Comments »
Muslims account for a mere 4.6% of population, yet have been spreading fear among the indigenous Buddhists of the region, using violence and brutality. They have resorted to the random killing of Buddhists, including school teachers and Buddhist monks.
(Photos below are of Muslim beheadings, burnings, hackings, and dismemberings of innocent Thai citizens)
SINHALE Muslim separatists have increasingly and openly rallied against the central government of Thailand, accusing it of ethnic-religious bias, discrimination and corruption. A brutal attack on a Buddhist temple in the town of Pattani in 2005 is seen as an attempt by militants to deepen the religious divide between Muslims and Buddhists in Thailand’s deep South.
Although separatist violence has occurred for decades in the southern region, the campaign escalated in 2004. Over 4300 lives have been lost since the year 2004 owing to Islamic insurgency. Buddhist monks have been beheaded, children killed and civilians attacked. More than 500 people have been killed in 2004 in three southern Thai provinces. Massive killings occurred throughout the mid to late 2000s and as of 2010, nearly 4,000 people had been killed due to insurgent violence.
The death toll has increased to 2,579 by mid-September 2007 and surpassed 3000 in March 2008. By the end of 2010, insurgency-related violence had increased. In the first few weeks of 
January in 2011 nine Buddhists have been killed in Southern Thailand by Islamic terrorists. In a separate attack four members of Thai armed forces have been killed. Many Buddhists have left their traditional home in Southern Thailand in order to escape the ongoing Islamic insurgency.
Overall, it is clear that elements within Southern Thailand desire a non-Buddhist land. The younger generation of Muslims are being brainwashed against Buddhists. This hatred and alienation of the younger generation began after many studied at international universities throughout the Middle East. Funding from the Middle East is being used to spread radical Sunni Islamic versions of Islam.
Although the hidden war in Southern Thailand by radical Sunni Islamists is being aimed at moderate Muslims and Buddhists alike, the Buddhists it is feared face complete annihilation and one day Southern Thailand may end up like Afghanistan, Central Asia, and other areas which once had thriving Buddhist communities.
History reveals vividly how Muslims invaded many former Buddhist countries and subjugated their people subjecting them to extreme forms of violence and untold misery unless people converted to Islam. There have been problems of a varied nature in all countries where Muslims form a minority. Indonesia and Malaysia were Buddhist countries at a certain time in history.
UGANDAN PASTOR, Christian apostate from Islam, gets treated in Israel for horrific acid attack on him by Muslims
Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islam and the Jews | 25 Comments »
An evangelical pastor from Uganda received extensive emergency medical treatment in Israel after he had acid thrown in his face on Christmas eve by Muslims in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
Israel Hayom Umar Mulinde, an evangelical pastor from Uganda who recently began preaching support for Israel, suffered severe burns to his face, torso and hand, and eye damage, and was brought to Sheba Medical Center for treatment.
Pastor Umar Mulinde, 38, arrived in Israel on Thursday seeking urgent medical attention after extremists doused him with acid, causing severe burns to his face, torso and hand, and damage 
to his right eye. He was initially admitted to the International Hospital in Kampala, but then made a request to be brought to Israel to receive advanced medical treatment.
He is currently being treated at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, which has confirmed that Mulinde is recovering from heavy burns and damage to his eye.
The Ugandan pastor revealed that he spent most of his life as a Muslim and was a late convert to Christianity. Recounting the brutal attack against him, he said, “I was attacked by someone who called out to me and when I turned to look over, he spilled acid on me that burned part of my face. When I turned around again, another person spilled acid over my back. They they ran away yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ [Allah is great].”
“The pastor will need to undergo a series of reconstructive surgeries over the next few weeks,” head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery’s Burns Unit, Dr. Josef Haik,said. “The injury inflicted to [Mulinde's] eye is severe and the initial surgery, expected take place over the next few days, will focus on reconstructing the eyelid of the affected eye, and will include skin grafts.” ”The damage caused is severe and it is still too early to determine whether [Mulinde] will be able to see out of that eye.”
Norway has learned nothing from the Anders Behring Breivik massacre
Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islamization of the West | 33 Comments »
Norway has paid a bitter price for its policies of massive Muslim immigration. Norwegian blonde-haired girls have to dye their hair brown, and children can’t carry salami in their lunch boxes for fear of being beaten up. Yet far from taking emergency steps to scale back the Muslim invasion, the prime minister has vowed to make Norway more “open to immigrants.”
In Norway, to speak negatively about any aspect of the Muslim faith has always been a touchy matter, inviting charges of “Islamophobia” and racism. It will be a great deal more difficult to broach these issues now that this murderous madman has become the poster boy for the criticism of Islam.
CBN No one had any idea that a crazed gunman would start killing people over the issue of Muslim immigration.
Muslims burning Norwegian flag
Several weeks before the massacre in Norway, CBN News travelled to Oslo to investigate reports that that nation’s experiment with Muslim immigration and multiculturalism had gone terribly wrong, that Muslim radicalism was growing along with violence and intimidation against non-Muslims.
Something else that Muslim immigration appears to have brought to Norway is what some here call “a rape epidemic.” Recent police statistics showed that in the capital city of Oslo, 100 percent of assault rapes between strangers were committed by immigrant, non-Western males. And nine out of 10 of their victims were native Norwegian women. To protect themselves, some blonde Norwegian women have reportedly begun dying their hair black, and many travel only in groups.
As in other European cities, parts of Oslo are now Muslim zones and may be subject to Sharia law or to the rule of local imams. ”Most of the areas where the Muslim is the majority, the Norwegian feels that they are not in their country, that they’re not in Norway. They feel like a Muslim country,” al-Kubaisi said.
Some on the left in Europe are using the Oslo massacre to stifle criticism of Islam. But not talking about it won’t make Norway’s problem go away. Norway is probably the most acute case of radical Islamization in Western Europe. With a relatively tiny population of under 5-million, Norway’s leftist government has embraced Hamas and scorned Israel, and thrown wide the gates to the radical Muslim agenda.
Prominent Norwegian lawyer Brynjar Østgård wants to stop Islam in Norway and thinks Islam threatens Norwegian culture and social order. ”I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Islam’s incursion into Europe must be stopped – NOW! The talk and half-blind naivety must stop: we must think LONG TERM, or else the civilization that has taken 2000 years to build in Europe will be destroyed. WHEN did our government get the mandate from the people to throw away our culture, our home and our future? I know such a mandate was never given. (Just so it’s clear: you can’t really distinguish between Islam and Islamism – one follows the other)”
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Reynosa woman paid $100 to smuggle $1.6 million in cocaine
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A Reynosa woman is spending Valentine’s Day behind bars after she allegedly accepted $100 dollars to smuggle $1.6 million dollars worth of cocaine into the United States.
U.S.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested 29-year-old Maria Magdalena Martinez-Tijerina on a federal drug charges on Tuesday.
Martinez-Tijerina drove up from Mexico at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge in a gray 2006 Honda Civic with Tamaulipas license plates.
Court records show that customs officers had her license plates under a “lookout” list.
Customs officers sent her car to secondary inspection where they found 10 packages with 51.28 pounds of cocaine worth $1.6 milion dollars hidden inside the rocker panels.
Martinez-Tijerina told investigators that her friend’s boyfriend “Javier” got her involved in drug smuggling and put the car in her name.
The Reynosa woman said she had smuggled drugs at least five times before and he would pay her $100 dollars per trip.
According to the records, Javier would ride with her in Reynosa but get out of the car before she crossed into the United States.
Martinez-Tijerina said he would walk across the bridge on the pedestrian lanes while she drove across.
Once she crossed in the car, they would meet up again in Hidalgo and he would take the car while she would go shopping.
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Blows to “El Chapo” are exaggerated
Some of the key operators within the command structure of the Sinaloa Cartel detained or killed during the Felipe Calderon administration
Ponen en duda golpes al Chapo
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http://www.tedf.org.mx/sala_prensa/sintesis/sm2012/feb/120213/120213_grales_ponen.pdf
Specialists say detentions may encumber cartel operations but not its leadership
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera may still sit on his throne but his kingdom has been dismantled if we are to believe Mexico’s federal government.
To date during the Felipe Calderón administration federal authorities have detained at least 12 key lieutenants and operators belonging to “El Chapo” Guzman’s organization.
During the detainee’s media presentations military and federal police spokespersons have repeated the catchphrase that the operation significantly handicaps the command structure and operational capacity of the Sinaloa Cartel.
However, experts in security matters and criminal justice policy are not buying the government line.
Pedro Peñaloza, criminologist and professor in the Faculty of Law in UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Ghaleb Krame, a national security specialist and academic with the Mexico City campus of Alliant International University, agree that the Sinaloa Cartel functions like a corporation where management is disposable and vacant positions are filled.
“In Mexico criminal organizations are not taken apart, only the top is lopped off. This is a profound conceptual difference; when you only remove those at the top it favors other factions that will occupy the vacuum and continue the business and the structure continues functioning. The detained are simply phased out,” states Peñaloza.
“The phrase that is repeated constantly, that ‘X’ financial operator belonging to ‘Y’ cartel was arrested, is meaningless. The operational structures used by criminal organizations are very robust and they function just like a successful corporation.”
Ghaleb Krame considers that high level arrests do affect Sinaloa Cartel operations but they leave its top leadership untouched. The specialist emphasizes that to profoundly disrupt the cartel the government must capture “El Chapo”, and not just his subordinates.
“As long as ‘El Chapo’ continues operating the Sinaloa cartel will be a coercive force. They’ve detained many of his operators, true, but there will always be people willing to take their place, just like any business.”
“For the phrase ‘is significantly affected’ to have any real context they must capture ‘El Chapo’, only then will there be any serious interruption.” adds Krame.
Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, “El Inge”, is presented to the media by SEDENA after his capture on December, 2011. “Con esta acción lograda por el personal militar, se afecta la estructura de liderazgo y la capacidad operativa del CARTEL DEL PACÍFICO.” (With this action won by military personnel, the command structure and operational capacity of the Sinaloa Cartel has been compromised.)
The federal government emphasizes that Sinaloa Cartel operations have been significantly affected with the capture since 2007 of Jesús Reynaldo Zambada García, “El Rey Zambada”; Vicente Zambada Niebla, “El Vicentillo”; Eduardo Teodoro García Simental, “El Teo”; Manuel Fernández Valencia, “La Puerca”; José Manuel García Simental, “El Chiquilín”; Ovidio Limón Sánchez and Felipe Cabrera Sarabia; and the deaths of Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, “Nacho Coronel”, one of the cartel’s top leaders, and Luis Alberto Cabrera Sarabia, “El Arqui”.
This contrasts sharply with the fact that between 2010 and 2011 “El Chapo” Guzman rose 5 spots on the Forbes World’s Most Powerful People list, from #60 to #55.
(Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico’s billionaire telecommunications magnate, appeared on the 23rd spot both years. President Felipe Calderon did not appear on either.)
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Gunmen kill five in attacks in Monterrey
Gunmen staged two attacks in Santa Lucia, a neighbourhood in the northern section of the city, where at least 17 drug-related shootings have occurred in the past few weeks.
Three men standing outside a house were gunned down with assault rifles, the AEI said, adding that the victims were in the used car business.
Another civilian and a police officer were shot dead a few minutes later.
The police officer died while being treated at a hospital, the AEI said.
About a dozen multiple murders have occurred in the past year in Santa Lucia, with officials blaming the violence on the war between the Gulf cartel and Los Zetas for control of Monterrey.
Mexico’s drug war death toll stood at 47,515 from December 2006 to September 30.
The murder total has grown every year of President Felipe Calderon’s military offensive against the well-funded, heavily armed drug cartels.
Unofficial tallies published in December by independent daily La Jornada put the death toll from Mexico’s drug war at more than 50,000.
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Chapos Meth Maker “El Viejito” apprehended
Federal police say in a statement that 43-year-old Jaime Herrera Herrera was captured in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa and was one of the principal producers of methamphetamine for Guzman’s cartel. They say he is wanted by authorities in the United States, and has acknowledged moving tons of methamphetamine into the United States. AP
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Cousins on trial in Memphis as hit men for Sinaloa Cartel and Craig Petties
The cousins are alleged to have been hitmen for the Craig Petties gang which grew to a huge drug trafficking empire in 5 states, importing drugs from Sinaloa I have included backstory information following the main post, if you are unfamiliar with Petties it is an intriguing tale….Paz, Chivis
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| This photo of Craig Petties was taken by Mexican authorities shortly after his arrest in Queretaro (PGR photo) |
Backstory of Craig Petties:
Blood Trade the Story of Craig Petties
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| Neighbors walk by the house in the upscale Milenio III neighborhood in Queretaro, Mexico where Memphian Craig Petties was arrested |
According to U.S. Marshals spokesman Dave Oney, Petties is a half-brother of Paul Beauregard, better known as rapper DJ Paul of Three6 Mafia, a group that has sold millions of recordings.
Israel believes Iran was behind latest attacks on its embassies in India and Georgia
Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islam and the Jews | 15 Comments »
PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran, and its proxy Hezbollah, are responsible for a string of attempted attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets abroad in recent months, including in Thailand and Azerbaijan.
Hindustan Times The cloak-and-dagger war between Iran and Israel arrived in India on Monday afternoon. An Israeli embassy vehicle was bombed, less than 300 meters from the Prime Minister’s residence, injuring an embassy official, the driver of the car as well as two occupants of the car right behind.
Though Delhi Police chief B K Gupta didn’t confirm it as a terror attack, Tel Aviv immediately pointed its finger at long-time enemy Iran and said the attack won’t be taken “lying down”. A similar plot was foiled hours before the Delhi blast in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, where a bomb attached to an Israeli embassy vehicle was defused.
Investigators, quoting eyewitnesses, say that a biker is suspected to have used a magnetic device to stick the explosive to the rear of the embassy car waiting at a red light and sped away. The explosive went off seconds later, setting the vehicle on fire and seriously injuring Talyeshova Koren, who works for the defence section of the embassy and is also the defence attache’s wife.
There is no closed-circuit camera coverage in the area either, making it even more difficult for police to track down the motorcycle’s number. The attack comes a day after after the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah deputy leader, Imad Mughniyah, who was killed in a car bomb attack. Hizbullah, with who Israeli has a running battle, blamed Tel Aviv for Mughniyah’s killing.
Iran and Israel have been waging an increasingly bloody covert war over the former’s nuclear weapons programme. At least five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated over the past two years. Tehran has blamed Israel for the deaths and sworn retaliation.
The head of Israel’s internal intelligence service, Shin Bet, had said last month his agency had over the past year thwarted Iranian terror attacks on Israeli targets in Thailand, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
THE NERVE! Syrian Cleric appeals to Israel for help in treating wounded Syrians
Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islam and the Jews | 29 Comments »
Of course, the Syrian Army would never allow the wounded safe passage via the Golan Heights.
OH NO! Those ‘evil, apartheid-imposing’ Israelis are at it again
Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islam and the Jews | 31 Comments »
Totally ignored and unreported by the pro-Muslim Western media, Israeli doctors and hospitals continue to give free life-saving medical treatment to Palestinian children and teenagers who often come from areas extremely hostile to Israel.
Israel Today As they do on a daily basis, Israeli doctors provided free medical treatment that saved the life of a 12-year-old Palestinian Arab girl from Gaza who had a serious heart defect.
In a press release publihshed this week, Rambam Medical Center in Haifa revealed that young Aya Almasal actually died while en route from Gaza to the northern Israel port city.
Having suffered from unexplained and sudden bouts of unconsciousness her entire life, “Aya set out for Rambam to treat this problem… [but] upon leaving Gaza, she felt ill and her situation steadily deteriorated,” read the release. “As the girl neared Rambam, her heart stopped working and she was, in effect, dead.”
Israeli medics and doctors managed with great effort to resuscitate their young Arab patient and implant a life-saving pacemaker. Aya was later diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome, a birth defect that causes irregular and rapid heart rate, and prevents blood from reaching the brain, resulting in a sudden loss of consciousness.
After a month of treatment and close monitoring, Aya was discharged last Thursday “standing on her own two feet” and ready to return home and start life anew.
Rambam Medical Center alone treats hundreds of Arab children and youth from across the Middle East on an humanitarian basis ever year. The hospital noted that “a number of Palestinian patients are currently at the [Pediatric Cardiology] department, among them a three-week old infant scheduled for heart surgery, and a 40-day old baby who needs a stent procedure.”
And Rambam is far from the only Israeli hospital that provides such care to its “enemies.” A group of Israeli surgeons donate their time to a humanitarian organization called “Save a Child’s Heart” that has provided life-saving surgery to well over 2,000 Arab children to date.
United with Israel While the Palestinian people have been celebrating terrorism and the murder of innocent children recently, Israel has been quietly saving the lives of countless Muslim & Christian children in its state of the art hospitals.
The video below tells the heart warming story about two-year-old Wallah Omar from Gaza City who recently finished an exhausting series of radiation treatments at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital. Seeing the recovery of this young Arab girl in the hands of Jewish Israeli doctors can’t help but bring a smile to your face.
It is also interesting to note that the girl’s father says that he knew from the start that the Israelis would provide his daughter with excellent care.
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EGYPT: Presidential contender would force all Muslim women to wear hijab (headbags)
Posted: February 13, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Just the Facts | 26 Comments »
Is this what the American Muslim-in-Chief meant when he praised the Arab Spring, saying that “democracy is breaking out all over the Middle East?”
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Mexico Chooses Woman to Lead Federal Police
The federal Public Safety Secretariat said that Cervantes, the first woman to head the Federal Police, has been “trained by leading security agencies in matters of crime data and criminal-operations analysis, intelligence, strategic planning, anti-terrorism, investigations and policing techniques in Spain, Israel and the United States.
Cervantes was employed as head of the intelligence division of the Federal Police and was responsible for establishing ties of cooperation, training and exchanging intelligence with the American Police Community, or Ameripol, and with the European Police Office, or Europol.
“She has wide experience in the fields of organized crime, national security, intelligence, international terrorism, armed groups and kidnapping,” the secretariat said Friday.
According to the agency, the work of Cervantes, 41, a native of Hidalgo state, has been praised internationally.
Among other distinctions, she was decorated in 2006 with Spain’s White Emblem Military Merit Cross, and in 2011 with the Obelisk Intelligence Badge, the highest honor of Colombia’s Police Intelligence Board.
Cervantes replaces Facundo Rosas, who has been designated the Public Safety Secretariat’s undersecretary for prevention, linkage and human rights.
Calderon gave the Federal Police and the army the lead role in battling violent drug cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.
But despite the nationwide deployment of tens of thousands federal forces, drug-related homicides have skyrocketed in recent years.
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Mexicans Take Kidnappers from Jail, Beat and Set Them on Fire (Addendum New Info)
A video of the aftemath of the scene from Univison from UNIVISION link here
2.13.2012 addendum
A report has been published that I feel important to include with this report. I would like to preface the fact that I have had problems with the missing pieces of information that would typically be included in a story. The apprehension for starters, and the multiple stories of facts. Lynching was one scenario I did not include due to the fact there was no pictorial evidence lending to that scenario.
There are many reasons and multiple groups that would not want a story of vigilantism to be reported in Mexico, the government is one Organized crime groups another. They would not promote such stories especially as this has been internationally reported and the vigilantes seen as heroes by the majority of readers.
I don’t know the true nature of the event in detail. Any scenario could be true. But I do ask myself, why wait 3 full days to report “the truth” , that is highly suspicious to any logical person, of which I am one. I would think an effective avenue to stop vigliantism is to rewrite which side has the true criminals. I will add that in some places in Mexico and very prevalent in Guatemala citizens hide under the cloak of vigilantism to harm or kill enemies. below is the new account from La Cronica de Hoy …Paz, Chivis
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Seven Gunned Down in Northern Mexico
Latin American Herald Tribune
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=470351&CategoryId=14091
MONTERREY, Mexico – Four men and three women were gunned down Sunday in Torreon, one of the largest cities in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, prosecutors said.
The shooting occurred in Vicente Guerrero, a poor neighborhood in the southern section of Torreon, the Coahuila state Attorney General’s Office said.
“In the incident reported, it has been confirmed that four males and three females died,” the AG’s office said.
The “bodies of five people were found inside a vehicle,” the AG’s office said.
It is not clear whether the victims were killed in a shootout between rival gangs or dumped in the neighborhood.
A bulletin was issued after gunfire was reported, but no arrests have been made.
The Sinaloa and Los Zetas drug cartels have been fighting for control of Torreon, resulting in a series of massacres over the past three years.
Gunmen opened fire with assault rifles on a group of people in Torreon on Jan. 28, killing five people and wounding four others.
The shooting happened in Nueva Rosita, a district in the western section of Torreon.
A 15-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man were pronounced dead from gunshot wounds to the head at the scene, while Red Cross paramedics assisted six men and a woman.
Investigators found 16 .223-caliber bullet casings from AR-15 assault rifles at the crime scene, the AG’s office said.
Mexico’s drug war death toll stood at 47,515 from December 2006 to Sept. 30.
The murder total has grown every year of President Felipe Calderon’s military offensive against the well-funded, heavily armed drug cartels.
Unofficial tallies published in December by independent daily La Jornada put the death toll from Mexico’s drug war at more than 50,000.
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Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, R.I.P.
photos courtesy of El Universal
“El Lazca”, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, the ruthless leader of Mexico’s Los Zetas, has erected the final resting place that will house his remains in the city of Pachuca, Hidalgo.
The purpose of the empty mausoleum in the San Francisco cemetary is an open, but unspoken, secret among the residents of the colonia Tezontle, where Lazcano has also paid for the erection of a church, Nuestra Señora de los Lagos.
Although the exact location of Lazcano’s birth in the state of Hidalgo is disputed, Tezontle is said to be his birthplace. Tezontle is one of the poorer, more forgotten neighborhoods of Pachuca.
Among the myths that surround Lazcano’s life is that a reason for his desertion from the Army and entry into the original cadre of Los Zetas is that he was denied promotion past the rank of corporal, not for lack of merit but due to his humble origins.
Mausoleums are symbols of the excess that marks the narco lifestyle, at least for the higher tiers of drug traffickers with the resources to fund them. They are the final bookend to these men’s lives.
Below are excerpts of a documentary that chronicles life in the universe of drug trafficker’s burial grounds. “El Velador” (The Night Watchman) is the work of the Mexican filmmaker Natalia Almada.
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Juarez’ Cops Under Attack Again
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Mexican Governor got Millions in Drug Cash
By E. Eduardo Castillo
The Associated Press
U.S. drug agents have evidence that cartel leaders paid millions to a Mexican border state governor and other figures in Mexico’s former ruling party in exchange for political influence, according to a court filing in Texas.
The affidavit says the DEA also has obtained ledgers documenting millions of dollars in payments to Yarrington’s representatives.
Yarrington declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press on Friday.
The U.S. investigation could have ramifications for Mexico’s July 1 presidential election. The candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has a strong lead in opinion polls and appears poised to retake the country’s most powerful office 12 years after the party was unseated after seven decades of unchallenged rule. The PRI has been fending off allegations of criminal ties from the current ruling party, its main competitor in the vote.
It accuses him of using U.S. bank accounts to funnel millions to Yarrington from leaders of the Gulf and the Zetas. In 2004-2005 alone, it says, he and his brother received $4.5 million from the No. 2 leader of the Zetas, Miguel-Angel Trevino Morales.
The Zetas gang was started by Mexican special forces soldiers who dropped out of the military and initially worked as the Gulf cartel’s enforcers before breaking away in 2010 to become a notoriously brutal nationwide cartel of their own, responsible for thousands of kidnappings, slayings and acts of extortion. The Zetas and Gulf cartel then went to war over control of the drug routes running into much of southern Texas, turning Tamaulipas one of Mexico’s most violent states.
One of the DEA’s four informants told investigators that “during early 2000, Antonio Pena-Arguelles began receiving large amounts of drug proceeds on behalf of Osiel Cardenas, head of the Gulf Cartel, in exchange for political influence within the government in Tamaulipas,” the complaint says.
Mauricio Fernandez, head of the DEA’s San Antonio office, described the complaint as the result of a lengthy and continuing investigation.
“It’s an ongoing matter right now,” he said. “A lot of people are working on this.”
Mexican prosecutors said late last month that they were investigating former Tamaulipas officials in connection with unspecified federal crimes, a category that includes money-laundering and drug-related crimes. Yarrington and two other former PRI governors, Manuel Cavazos, who served until 1999, and Eugenio Hernandez, who left office in 2010, publicly acknowledged that they were subjects of the probe but denied any links to crime.
In the wake of the revelations, the PRI accused the governing National Action Party, the PAN, its main opponent in the July election, of manipulating criminal justice for political ends.
The PRI’s presidential candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, appeared several days later at a rally in Tamaulipas hand-in-hand with Cavazos in a public show of support for the ex-governor, who is now running for a Senate seat.
The centerpiece of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s six-year term has been his heavy militarized fight against drug cartels, and the PAN has been increasingly attempting to paint the PRI as unable to move away from the corruption that marked the autocratic rule that ended with its presidential loss to the PAN in 2000.
Calderon’s party seized on the DEA court filing as evidence that the PRI has links to organized crime.
“For months the National Action Party has expressed its concern about the evidence constantly coming to light that current and former PRI governors could be allowing organized-crime groups to operate,” Gustavo Madero, chairman of the PAN’s national executive committee, told reporters.
Pena Nieto did not directly address the accusations in the DEA affidavit when questioned about them Friday. Standing beside him, PRI head Joaquin Coldwell struck a softer tone than in previous party statements about the probe of the ex-governors.
“Every party member is responsible for his own conduct and behavior, and each party member must carry out his own legal defense,” Coldwell said. “What we ask for in this case and others that present themselves … is that the justice system isn’t used in a partisan way, for electoral purposes, and that the constitutional rights of the people who are investigated are respected.”
On the morning of his brother’s death, Antonio Pena-Arguelles received a cellphone text message from Trevino, the Zetas’ No. 2, accusing him, Yarrington and the head of the Gulf cartel, Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, of orchestrating Torre’s slaying, the complaint says.
Associated Press writer Paul J. Weber in San Antonio contributed to this report.
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How One DEA Agent began a brutal Drugwar
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