Charred bodies dumped in drug gang-hit Mexico city

[Niels Bohr 72]

Mon Jul 7, 2008 3:37pm EDT TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Police found six charred bodies, one still on fire, dumped on a street in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana on Monday, in the latest brutal killing on the U.S.-Mexico border.

A police spokesman said drug gangs were believed to be behind the attack.

"Some of the victims were shot dead or beaten. It's not clear if any were burned alive," said the spokesman, who declined to be quoted by name.

Tijuana is one of the most gruesome fronts in Mexico's three-way war between rival drug cartels and security forces, as Mexico's most-wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman tries to wrestle control of smuggling routes into California from the city's long dominant Arellano Felix cartel.

Following two months of relative quiet in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, drug murders and kidnappings are rising again, police say. At least 14 people have been killed in drug violence since early Sunday.

Shootouts between drug gangs have killed some 300 people in the city this year, making up a chunk of the more than 1,700 drug murder victims across Mexico since the start of 2008.

Monday's burnt bodies were found two days after suspected drug hitmen in southern Mexico dumped a severed human head inside a black bag in the tourist city of Oaxaca, along with a threatening message for Mexican law enforcement, the state public prosecutor's office said.

President Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of troops to Tijuana and across the country to fight warring drug gangs but the military operations have failed to curb the violence. Killings have increased this year to unprecedented levels.

U.S. and Mexican anti-drug officials say higher street prices show fewer narcotics are getting through to the United States and that increased drug violence is a sign that cartels are weakening.

(Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; editing by David Wiessler)

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I wonder what they did.

[Ban Hammer 13,620]

I wonder what they did.

probably illegals in mexico.....

[one...two...tree 2,762]

End the War on Drugs.

[Ban Hammer 13,620]

End the War on Drugs.

i'm sure mexico will listen.

[Heracles 417]

And these are the people some want to give amnesty to.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

And these are the people some want to give amnesty to.

I don't think "Charred bodies" would pass the medical

[franklie 0]

there was just under 20 killed this past weekend in TJ. The drug wars are heating up again.

Word on the street is that it is NOT 2 different cartels battling it out but rather one of the crew chiefs (sub-capo) of the AF cartel trying to get control of the AF cartel.

[peejay 327]

there was just under 20 killed this past weekend in TJ. The drug wars are heating up again.

Word on the street is that it is NOT 2 different cartels battling it out but rather one of the crew chiefs (sub-capo) of the AF cartel trying to get control of the AF cartel.

Just another reason that the US military should be deployed to secure our border. Where is "Blackjack" Pershing when he is most needed now more than ever?

[Nagishkaw 510]

And these are the people some want to give amnesty to.

I don't think "Charred bodies" would pass the medical

[Chica Yeyé 41]

End the War on Drugs.

i'm sure mexico will listen.

And I'm sure the addicts in the US who buy the ####### will too.

[Ban Hammer 13,620]

End the War on Drugs.

i'm sure mexico will listen.

And I'm sure the addicts in the US who buy the ####### will too.

they are too drugged to pay attention

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Word on the street is that it is NOT 2 different cartels battling it out but rather one of the crew chiefs (sub-capo) of the AF cartel trying to get control of the AF cartel.

Interesting, if true.

Thanks for sharing.

[bhajishah 4]

Yes but what is the word in Starbucks?????

and whoo gets high anymore???

[SaadBell 0]

End the War on Drugs.

That would end all of the problems of this nature. But the drug war is very profitable and there is a lot of money being made locking up Americans for drugs. Just like alcohol probation violence, mafia running the government and police, it is a money maker. Americans eat up the propaganda on the dangers of drugs without any education on the truth. Plus The government doesn’t want you to get hooked on the street dealers drugs, he wants you hooked on his legal drugs, have you seen the drug commercials pushing everything from curing depression to athletics foot, too much greed, they don’t want you to smoke a weed that you can grow in your back yard, they would lose their big drug profits for anti depressants and addicted highly pain killers.