Mexico hitmen kill eight at prayer in rehab center

[Niels Bohr 72]

Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:41pm EDT By Ignacio Alvarado

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hooded gunmen dressed in black burst into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in northern Mexico, dragged patients out of a prayer session and shot them dead in an attack that killed eight people.

The hitmen, wearing body armor, forced their way into the center in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez on Wednesday night, ordering the patients onto the floor and then picking out several men and killing them in the back patio.

"They came in and shouted at us to get down on the floor and not to look at them," a witness told local TV news as he fled the evangelist-funded rehab center with a 3-year-old boy in his arms.

But the first shootings caused panic and the patients tried to flee, prompting the gunmen to open fire on the stampede, witnesses said.

"They killed the person running behind us," the witness said.

Eight people died and six others were seriously wounded, the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said on Thursday.

The shootings were believed to be part of a drug gang feud. Police said the rehab center may have been suspected of protecting dealers from rival drug gangs.

Some 2,000 people have died this year in a drug war, mostly between rival gangs, for control of routes into the United States.

Around 40 people were killed in drug violence in Ciudad Juarez in two days this week, police say, taking the city's death toll to 795 so far this year and making it the deadliest front in Mexico's war on drug gangs.

Despite the deployment of 3,000 troops and federal police in Ciudad Juarez, which lies across from El Paso, Texas, gun battles have erupted on busy city streets and buildings have been set on fire as rival drug gangs fight a turf war.

Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, is fighting local drug baron Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, boss of the Juarez cartel, for control of Ciudad Juarez and its lucrative smuggling corridor into the United States.

(Editing by Vicki Allen)

Seriously, I have Reuters international RSS feeds into my Google Reader and it shows many news about Mexico's drugs, cartels, and border crossing. I rarely see any other type of news reporting from Mexico. Heck, I know Cambodia has loads of drugs trafficking and nothing shown up on the RSS feeds as much as Mexico.

[Nagishkaw 510]

oi

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Seriously, I have Reuters international RSS feeds into my Google Reader and it shows many news about Mexico's drugs, cartels, and border crossing. I rarely see any other type of news reporting from Mexico. Heck, I know Cambodia has loads of drugs trafficking and nothing shown up on the RSS feeds as much as Mexico.

please stand by. someone will be by shortly to browbeat you for posting this story that casts mexico in a negative light.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

This actually happened in Cambodia

[Ken y Leidys 20]

Seriously, I have Reuters international RSS feeds into my Google Reader and it shows many news about Mexico's drugs, cartels, and border crossing. I rarely see any other type of news reporting from Mexico. Heck, I know Cambodia has loads of drugs trafficking and nothing shown up on the RSS feeds as much as Mexico.

I picked up several Colombian newspapers last month, and realized how little appears in the English-language Google alerts. But, yes there are acts of terrorism still taking place in Bogota, Medellin, Cali, that rarely reach the mainstream media. Lately, gasoline and drugs/kidnapping and vice are most of what makes up articles about Mexico. I'm driving there next weekend for the Classic Rock on the Rocks 4WD event in Tecate. Don't worry, I'll be careful while visiting...

[SMOKE 1,426]

Seriously, I have Reuters international RSS feeds into my Google Reader and it shows many news about Mexico's drugs, cartels, and border crossing. I rarely see any other type of news reporting from Mexico. Heck, I know Cambodia has loads of drugs trafficking and nothing shown up on the RSS feeds as much as Mexico.

please stand by. someone will be by shortly to browbeat you for posting this story that casts mexico in a negative light.

yah, i'm really starting to enjoy consolemaster's threads

[Marilyn. 340]

this is starting to remind me of GaryC who was constantly posting negative articles about Obama...

[Sassy1natl 0]

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yep - pretty terrible.

There's no shortage of tragedy in the developing world.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Seriously, I have Reuters international RSS feeds into my Google Reader and it shows many news about Mexico's drugs, cartels, and border crossing. I rarely see any other type of news reporting from Mexico. Heck, I know Cambodia has loads of drugs trafficking and nothing shown up on the RSS feeds as much as Mexico.

please stand by. someone will be by shortly to browbeat you for posting this story that casts mexico in a negative light.

ZOMG! Brown people!!

[pedroh 21]

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

[pedroh 21]

cuz this sh!t only happens in Mexico right..

I'm pretty sure there's a deeper informative purpose, than just posting these news to talk sh!t about someone's country..

but again, it's Mexico.. only negative news accepted from this country..

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There's nothing about the article that isn't "news", but posting article after article about a specific foreign country smells of intent.

[natty bumppo 297]

cuz this sh!t only happens in Mexico right..

I'm pretty sure there's a deeper informative purpose, than just posting these news to talk sh!t about someone's country..

but again, it's Mexico.. only negative news accepted from this country..

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hooded gunmen dressed inlack burst into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in northern Mexico, dragged patients out of a prayer session and shot them dead in an attack that killed eight people.

pedroh ... it's an everyday event in the usa .... *sorry can't find the emoticon for dumb fck the only thing missing is u*

Edited August 15, 2008 by Natty Bumppo