[Excerpt: It was unclear why the six were targeted as they got off their work shifts. The victims included a computer systems technician, two electrical technicians, a guard commander and two drivers.....The prison employees were handcuffed, blindfolded and then shot to death, Ramirez said. Four showed signs of torture and all were left in a white sport-utility vehicle parked across the road from the prison, one of the country's three top federal facilities.]
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-mex22.html Drug ring blamed in slaying of six Mexican prison workers January 22, 2005 BY OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ MATAMOROS, Mexico -- Drug traffickers were behind the slayings of six Mexican prison employees, specifically picking them out at a roadblock, officials said Friday, detailing the latest killings in an increasingly bloody turf war that has bodies turning up almost daily along the border. Federal prosecutor Marco Antonio Ramirez said a group of assassins, dressed in black, set up a roadblock on the dirt road leading from the prison in this town across from Brownsville, Texas. The assassins stopped only the victims' cars and let others pass. 'Mother of all battles' It was unclear why the six were targeted as they got off their work shifts. The victims included a computer systems technician, two electrical technicians, a guard commander and two drivers. The prison employees were handcuffed, blindfolded and then shot to death, Ramirez said. Four showed signs of torture and all were left in a white sport-utility vehicle parked across the road from the prison, one of the country's three top federal facilities. Federal officials have described the killings as a direct challenge to President Vicente Fox's crackdown on the drug trade. Fox pledged Thursday to ''wage the mother of all battles against organized crime, drug trafficking, and now within the federal prisons.'' Cartels at war For months, bodies have turned up in the trunks of cars, abandoned lots and homes along the border, evidence of a growing war between the Juarez and Gulf cartels, two of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs. The Gulf Cartel, allegedly headed by Osiel Cardenas, is based in Tamaulipas state. Federal officials say Cardenas has continued to run his organization from a prison outside Mexico City since being arrested nearly two years ago in Matamoros. They suggested he was linked to Thursday's slayings. AP enditem UNRESTRICTED ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
