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  • Toll rises to 5 in Mexico prison siege

    11/19/2006 5:38:13 PM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 9 replies · 565+ views
    Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | Nov. 19, 2006 | THERESA BRAINE
    MORELIA, Mexico — A public defender died of his injuries Sunday after being shot by inmates who took a group of lawyers hostage near the central Mexican city of Morelia, bringing the death toll in the incident to five, authorities said. Ulises Montanez, 28, was shot in Saturday's standoff. Three other lawyers and an inmate also died in the hostage-taking and subsequent police raid. Prison Director Rogelio Garcia said officials were investigating Sunday how the inmates obtained .357-caliber Magnum handguns at the Mil Cumbres prison, which holds 2,000 prisoners. On Friday, four inmates took a total of 14 public defenders...
  • Chemical stockpile led to raids

    11/07/2005 3:32:12 PM PST · by Fair Go · 11 replies · 552+ views
    The Australian ^ | 8 Nov 05
    Chemical stockpile led to raids November 08, 2005 REPORTS a group of men were stockpiling chemicals to carry out a terrorist attack in Australia led to raids in Sydney and Melbourne, New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma said. Nine men have been charged in Melbourne with terrorism related offences and seven were being held in Sydney after a joint counter-terrorism strike in the two states this morning. An Australian Federal Police (AFP) spokesman said 23 search warrants were executed in suburbs across Sydney and Melbourne as part of a joint counter-terrorism operation by the federal, NSW , Victorian police and...