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14 dead, dozens hurt in Mexico violence By Arturo Perez Saturday, February 12, 2011; 8:33 PM GUADALAJARA, MEXICO - Armed men opened fire and hurled a grenade into a crowded nightclub early Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 37 in a western city whose tranquility has been shattered by escalating battles among drug cartels. The attack in Mexico's <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/mexico.html?nav=el> second-largest municipality took place hours after a shoot-out between soldiers and presumed cartel gunmen left eight people dead in the northeastern city of Monterrey. Monterrey is Mexico's third-largest city. In the Guadalajara attack, assailants in a Jeep Cherokee and a taxi drove up to the Butter Club, located in a bar and restaurant district popular with young people, and sprayed it with bullets. Some of the men then got out of the taxi and threw a grenade into the nightclub entrance, said a police official, who spoke to media at the scene and left without giving his name. The gunmen fled after the pre-dawn attack, he said. Three were killed at the scene and three died later in hospitals, said Medical Services Director Yannick Nordin. A Venezuelan and a Colombian were among the dead. While there have been isolated grenade attacks around the city, Saturday's was the first to be thrown into a crowd and cause so many injuries. The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara recently warned U.S. citizens not to drive at night in parts of the city after suspected drug-gang members burned vehicles and blocked streets. Such alerts have become common for highways in some areas of northern and western Mexico, but not for Guadalajara, which is known more for its mariachi music and tequila than as a focal point of a drug war that has claimed nearly 35,000 lives since 2006. But in recent months the picturesque colonial city has come to resemble embattled areas of northern Mexico - including the state of Nuevo Leon, where Monterrey is located. Seven presumed cartel gunmen were shot dead by soldiers near Monterrey during a chase and shoot-out just after midnight Friday. A civilian was also killed when the gunmen crashed into his car as they tried to flee soldiers. A soldier and a state police officer were wounded in the clash in the suburban city of San Nicolas, the military said in a news release. Nuevo Leon has been hit by a wave of drug-fueled violence in recent years as the Gulf Cartel battles a gang of its former enforcers known as the Zetas. The cartels have staged a bloody turf war over drug peddling points and smuggling routes to the U.S. border 125 miles to the north, and clashes with the military and police have become almost a daily occurrence in and around Monterrey. In Guadalajara, the violence has heated up in the past few months from cartels warring for turf. The city is key to western drug routes once controlled by former Sinaloa leader Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, who died in a gun battle with soldiers in July. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- 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: [email protected] 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.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
