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2 more cops shot dead along border [Nuevo Laredo, Mexico}
Express-News Border Bureau ^ | 05/17/2006 | Mariano Castillo
Posted on 05/17/2006 1:44:44 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — The unceasing wave of violence in this city claimed the lives of two state police officers Tuesday, including the head of the homicide division.
Juan Gonzalez and Rodolfo Eguia had just finished lunch at a local restaurant about 12:15 p.m. and were leaving in a green Jeep Cherokee when gunmen ambushed them, authorities said.
The Jeep then crashed into the corner of a building next to the restaurant, knocking out a large chunk of bricks and concrete that landed on the hood.
No arrests were made, and investigators didn't have a description of the assailants' vehicle.
A motive for the shooting remained unclear.
Gonzalez oversaw the ever-growing stack of unsolved homicides in Nuevo Laredo. More than 100 slayings have been recorded this year, most attributed to a bloody turf war between warring drug cartels.
Historically, only a fraction of homicides here are solved.
"Right now we can't give any more information," the lead investigator, Jose Martinez Lozano, said at the scene of the shooting.
He confirmed Gonzalez was the head of the ministerial police homicide division and Eguia the office secretary.
More than 36 shell casings from an assault rifle were found at the scene.
A third state police employee had been at lunch with the two victims and was in a car behind them when the shooting erupted, a state investigator said on the condition of anonymity. The employee had a panic attack at the scene and was taken to a local hospital.
"It sounded as if they were shooting at our house," said a witness whose house was next to the building that the Jeep struck.
"I crouched on the couch, and my wife threw herself on the floor until it was over," the man said. "It's sad to say this, but we don't have security in this city at all."
Tuesday's killings bring the tally of assassinated law officers in Nuevo Laredo to ten. At least 11 other officers have been injured by gunmen this year.
Gonzalez and Eguia became the first casualties for the state ministerial police this year.
Two officers from the other state police force, the preventive state police, died in an ambush March 7.
On March 16, four undercover federal police officers were gunned down inside their car while staking out a suspected drug trafficker's safe house.
The municipal police force in particular has been under attack in the past months. Two municipal officers died in separate shootouts in April and five local cops were injured during a lunchtime attack earlier this month.
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Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 276
May 18, 2006 No.276
"In the Footsteps of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Prophet Mohammad: Ahmadinejad Calls Upon Bush to Accept Islam"
By A. Savyon*
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Introduction
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to U.S. President George Bush, sent on May 7, 2006, emulates the letter written in 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's to then U.S.S.R. president Mikhail Gorbachev. Ahmadinejad's letter also emulates the Prophet Mohammad's epistle 1,400 years ago to the king of Ethiopia and other rulers of the world, and his call for Islam to be accepted as superior and as the correct path guiding humanity.
Ahmadinejad Aligns Himself With the Prophet Mohammad and Ayatollah Khomeini"
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May 17, 2006
Ahmadinejad: "Do you think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child?"
From CNN: "Iran: EU offer 'walnuts for gold.'"
"We don't need incentives," Ahmadinejad said on state-run TV. "They cannot stop our progress by offering us incentives.""Do you think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?" Ahmadinejad added, according to The Associated Press.
"Wait! Don't answer that!"
The Iranian leader's comments came in the midst of reports that Britain, France and Germany were putting together a tentative incentives package that would include a light-water nuclear reactor in exchange for Tehran giving up uranium enrichment.
Light-water reactors are more difficult to use in the development of weapons than are heavy-water plants that produce more nuclear material.
Echoes of the 1994 deal that Dhimmi Carter brokered with North Korea. A lot of good that's done.
Posted at May 17, 2006 09:46 AM