Posted on 07/04/2006 2:36:34 AM PDT by Bangupjob
MEXICO CITY - The red tide of narco killings continued in the resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, this week, with the severed heads of two men discovered Friday, officials said. A day earlier, another head was found on the stairs of City Hall.
All bore messages directed at the Nuevo Laredo-based Zetas, the enforcement arm of the Gulf cartel that operates along the Mexico-Texas border. The Zetas are in a vicious turf war with the Sinaloa cartel, named for the central Mexican state where it is based.
The message found with the first decapitated head, discovered in a black plastic bag Thursday, was for Heriberto Lazcano, the reputed leader of the Zetas. It referred to Zeta attacks against the Sinaloa cartel in Acapulco.
"Loscano (sic), keep sending me more of your idiot (soldiers) so they learn some respect," said the message left next to the plastic bag. It ended with the letter "z," pronounced "zeta" in Spanish.
"It's an act of provocation," said Acapulco Mayor Felix Salgado. "I've received death threats, and not just now, but for some time," he told reporters.
In January, Acapulco police killed four suspected Sinaloa cartel members in a shootout at a busy intersection not far from the tourist zone.
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Al Qaeda is using cheap Mexican labor for it's dirty work? We've got 'em on the run!
They're just doing the jobs Wahhabis won't do.
Thanks for posting. Belated welcome aboard.
Search string for Zetas:
http://tinyurl.com/zp6vp
Search string for Sinola:
http://tinyurl.com/epux4
Nasty bunch.
The excerpt reports two heads-but the link.. four total.
Subcomandante Marcos of Chiapas entered into an alliance with a Muslim movement in the mid-1990s. Long a bastion of Catholicism, southern Mexico is quickly turning into a battleground for soul-savers. Islam, too, is gaining a foothold and the indigenous Mayans are converting by the hundreds. The Mexican government is worried about a culture clash in their own backyard.
"Just like the fatherland, Senior!"
"Over Nuevo Laredo? I'll never be over Nuevo Laredo."
And hopefully the violence will not spill in to this Country.
Sounds a little like Chicago before Elliot Ness.
Drug dealers battling it out while the police are paid off to stay out of it.
Problem: There is no Mexican Elliot Ness, and no desire by the Mexican authorities to clean out this nest of rats.
ROTF!
Do you think Subcommandante Marcos has gender issues? I notice he's wearing a burkha.
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