3 Baja cops, civilian found decapitated; cartels blamed

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3 Baja cops, civilian found decapitated; cartels blamed

By Anna Cearley
STAFF WRITER
San Diego Union Tribune

June 22, 2006

ROSARITO BEACH – The decapitated bodies of three police officers and a civilian were discovered here yesterday morning, and their heads were found hours later in Tijuana in what some see as a particularly grisly message from drug cartels.

“We haven't seen this level and kind of killing before,” said Victor Clark, a Tijuana-based human rights activist who follows crime trends.

The Arellano Félix drug trafficking organization has used Rosarito Beach for years as a place to bring in drugs by land and sea before transporting them through Tijuana and into the United States. Other groups have been muscling their way into the area, challenging the Arellanos' power in this part of Mexico.

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It's not unusual for Mexican police near the border to be targeted by drug groups or for authorities to run across mutilated bodies. But the level of violence and the rank of some of the officers killed is raising questions about the motive. The assailants took pains to dump the heads in Tijuana while leaving the torsos in Rosarito Beach. All of the men's bodies showed signs of having been beaten, according to a news release from the state Attorney General's Office.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Better to blame Abu.

That way santorum can get a few points.

[sweetheart]

2. another 3 killed by the drugs laws

In some places, where you take a deliberate action that ends up killing people, they
call it a crime... But the american drugs warriors get away with crime all the time.

[hlthe2b]

3. Rosarito Beach--I drove down the Baja coast & stayed there

several years ago-- pretty run down, but once attracted Marilyn Monroe and other "stars" of the era. It was probably not real safe to drive that route by yourself even 10 years ago--you have to rent special heaps because of the high risk for car theft. It sounds like things may have gotten worst now. Damn drug wars....

[NorthernSun]

4. Related to CIA drug plane?

A CIA plane was busted in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine a few weeks ago. Registered to Jeb Bush's Homeland Security contractor and located in Naples Florida, of course(Atta's airport). Perhaps they are fighting over that.

http://www.madcowprod.com/

[saigon68]

5. Iraqi Methods come to Mexico

Wow that's refreshing

[Rich Hunt]

6. no shit

High time someone pointed out that this stuff isn't relegated to the middle east.

[donsu]

7. cutting off heads is becoming a fad - have Mexicans beheaded

before or has the neo cons a hand in this?