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Gunmen attack Mexican governor's convoy, kill bodyguard
Houston Chronicle/AP ^
| Feb. 23, 2009
Posted on 02/23/2009 1:04:05 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen have attacked a convoy carrying the governor of a violence-wracked border state, killing one of his bodyguards and wounding two other agents.
It was not clear if the attackers were targeting Chihuahua Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza, but he canceled a trip today to meet with federal officials in Mexico City about security problems in his state, where hundreds have died in drug-related violence in recent months.
Baeza said gunmen in two cars fired high-powered weapons at a vehicle two cars behind his in a convoy in the state capital, Chihuahua city, on Sunday night. The two wounded agents were in stable condition today and one of the attackers was hospitalized with a gunshot to the head. The other attackers fled.
The governor told a news conference shortly before midnight Sunday that he doesn’t know if the attackers were aiming for him: “We don’t want to speculate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: corruption; drugwarconsequences; hellinahandbasket; mexico; thankprohibition; wod
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Eduardo Verdugo AP
In this May 7, 2008 file photo, Chihuahua state Gov.
Jose Reyes Baeza, left, walks with New Mexico Gov. Bill
Richardson during a meeting in Chihuahua, Mexico. Reyes
canceled a trip today to meet with federal officials in
Mexico City after gunmen attacked his convoy, killing
one of his bodyguards and wounding two other agents.
To: SwinneySwitch
To: AuntB; BGHater; jafojeffsurf; B.O. Plenty; skeptoid; Yellow Rose of Texas; RushingWater; ...
Chihuahua ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:10:44 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(ObommaNation - beyond your expectations.)
To: SwinneySwitch
They’re doing the jobs assasins just won’t do...
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:12:16 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
To: SwinneySwitch
he canceled a trip today to meet with federal officials in Mexico City about security problems in his state,
Message received.
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:12:34 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: SwinneySwitch
So this has happened to him before? How come they always kill his bodyguards and not him? A set-up?
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:15:12 PM PST
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: SwinneySwitch; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:17:52 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(~ Support Our Troops ~ www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil ~)
To: HiJinx
Gettin’ nasty down there, isn’t it?
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:22:58 PM PST
by
AuntB
(The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
To: penelopesire
His ‘body-guards’ must be like the “redshirts” in the StarTrek episodes....expendable.
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:26:41 PM PST
by
FlashBack
('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
To: SwinneySwitch
...fired high-powered weapons...As opposed to low-powered weapons??
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:26:41 PM PST
by
DTogo
(Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Richardson is laughing in this photo, but he won't be laughing when the mexican drug lords get around to targeting HIS convoy.
Lay down with dogs, guv, & you know what happens.
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:26:58 PM PST
by
skeeter
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: HiJinx; gubamyster; Travis McGee
Sooner or later, we are gonna have to “take out the trash!”
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:31:22 PM PST
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: FlashBack
The whole place is fixing to blow up. I heard the other day that Texas has prepared a plan to deal with any refuges by stopping them at the border..but California and Arizona have no plans.
Perhaps..the dems are hoping for a big blow-up in Mexico..more ‘voters’ streaming across the border. They were going back in record numbers because of our economy..so I guess the dems and their drug cartel buds have to do something to bring them back in.
(eye roll)
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:33:13 PM PST
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: penelopesire
I heard the other day that Texas has prepared a plan to deal with any refuges by stopping them at the border..but California and Arizona have no plans.I guess we individuals Californians are left to make our own plans.
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:55:47 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: penelopesire
In 2001, Patricio Martinez Garcia, Chihuahua’s state governor then, survived an assassination attempt by the Juárez drug cartel.
The FBI warned him in advance about the cartel’s plans, and Presidente Fox later blamed the cartel for the attack. A Chihuahua state policewoman later imprisoned in connection with that one.
Reyes Baeza asked federal officials to investigate this attack because he said the assailants fired high-powered weapons that Mexican law says can only be used by the military.
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posted on
02/23/2009 1:56:41 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(Mexico - beyond your expectations.)
To: skeeter
I guess so. Sounds very ominous. Has Obama even made any statements on what is going on in Mexico since he took office?
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posted on
02/23/2009 2:05:19 PM PST
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: SwinneySwitch
hmmmmm...sounds pretty fishy. It will be a narco state before long.
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posted on
02/23/2009 2:06:55 PM PST
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: skeeter
I think it’s Californians they meant would rush the Texas border. Why would illegal felons leave welfare paradise California?
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posted on
02/23/2009 2:09:43 PM PST
by
Leisler
To: penelopesire
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posted on
02/23/2009 2:13:07 PM PST
by
AuntB
(The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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