Posted on 04/12/2010 4:23:13 PM PDT by AuntB
An attack over the weekend on the U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, the second against U.S. government employees on the Mexican border in less than a month, highlights the mounting safety risks to U.S. outposts in the area ...
Late Friday evening, unknown attackers threw a bomb onto the patio of the consulate. The blast shattered windows, but occurred after hours and injured no one... Mexican authorities are investigating.
The bomb came less than a month after a grisly attack on people associated with the Ciudad Juárez consulate, which left three people dead. On March 12, hit men chased a pregnant consulate employee and her husband, along with a third man in a separate car, through city streets in broad daylight, gunning them all down. Mexican authorities say an El Paso drug gang was involved in the killings.
This isn't the first attack. In October 2008, two men fired a gun and threw a grenade at the U.S. consulate in Monterrey, Mexico.... Nuevo Laredo's consulate was closed for several days in 2005 following a gun battle between warring gangs....
This weekend, video emerged of gunmen mowing down eight people, including a 14-year-old girl, in the northern town of Creel ; on Sunday, the body of a Mexican journalist was found in the central state of Michoacán with his throat slit. The family of Enrique Villicana Palomares, reported him missing last week.
Mexican security forces are responsible for protecting U.S. diplomatic missions in the country, a task some say they may not be up to. "They haven't taken it seriously," says Alberto Islas, private security consultant in Mexico City, of Mexico's federal and local police.
Still, Mr. Islas says, U.S. efforts to beef up security in its facilities—with perimeter fences, for example—haven't been matched by their Mexican counterparts....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
And another dead reporter...
"an El Paso drug gang was involved in the killings"...well not exactly. It was an illegal alien living in El Paso, taking orders from a MEXICAN gang.
There’s a war being fought on our Southern border but our politicians still won’t secure the border. It makes about as much sense as the war on drugs. They don’t start to fight that war until after the drugs cross the border and spread into every city and town across the country.
Ping!
BTT
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