Posted on 02/21/2009 3:15:15 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Mexican police say assailants hurled two grenades at a police station in the southwestern beach town of Zihuatanejo, wounding one officer and four civilians.
The Guerrero state Public Safety Department says men in an SUV threw the explosive devices at the station Saturday. Three taxi drivers, a woman and a policeman were hurt.
Grenade attacks have become a fixture of Mexico’s brutal drug violence.
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Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
WOW!
Can't buy them at a Texas Gun Show either.
Two grenades thrown at home of police chief in Mexican coastal resort [Zihuatanejo]
SignOnSanDiego.com/AP ^ | February 7, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573911/posts
Maybe Andy and Red (from The Shawshank Redemption) will have second thoughts about their haven.
Why immediately all legally owned firearms should be forecefully removed fromb us gun owners
Are the citizens of Mexico allowed to own weapons?
If so, they need to start keeping them handy.
SUV’s with grenades? That’s an Leftwingnut’s worst nightmare.
I am waiting for all the posts of “Oh, my trip to mexico was just lovely on the beach.”...”I just stay in the resorts and its so cheap in Mexico”
come on Maroons, where are you now?
“You remember the name of the town don’t you?”
I’d only vacation in Mexico if I could bring guns and ammo.
Gee,
That’s gotta hurt the tourista dollar.
Wow, Spring Break starts earlier every year!
Red and black?
You don't have to. They come as accessories with the eeeevil SUV.
Stories of other grenade attacks along the border, one on this side in Pharr Texas, the grenades were traced to S. Korea.
Mexico, U.S.: A New Weapon in the Cartel Arsenal
Stratfor Intelligence ^ | Feb. 10, 2009 | Stratfor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183376/posts
“Grenades used in three recent attacks in Monterrey, Mexico, and Pharr, Texas, all originated from the same lot delivered from South Korea...”
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