Thread: 12 Headless Bodies Found Near Mexico Graveyard

11 headless bodies found near Mexico graveyard
Police say all the dead had star signs and the letter Z tattooed on them

MERIDA, Mexico - Eleven beheaded bodies were dumped close to a graveyard outside a sleepy southern city on Thursday in the latest shocking crime in Mexico's vicious drug war.

Police said a farmer found the 11 bodies, showing signs of torture, five miles from this southern colonial city in the Yucatan peninsula often where tourists stop off on their way to visit the world-famous Mayan pyramids at Chichen Itza.

All the bodies had star signs and the letter Z tattooed on them, police sources said. A 12th beheaded body was found 50 miles away in a small town to the east of Merida, also showing signs of torture.

It was the latest mass beheading in Mexico since drug traffickers rolled several heads onto the floor of a nightclub in Michoacan state in 2006 in a blatant message to rivals and the government.

More than 2,300 people have been killed in drug violence this year, as Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, vies with rivals for control of the country's lucrative drug trade.

President Felipe Calderon has made crushing drug gangs a top priority, sending troops across the country in an attempt to restore law and order.

But drug violence has only spiraled as rival gangs fight each other and the army. Endemic police corruption has further complicated efforts to rid Mexico of cartels.

The United States has approved $465 million to help Mexico and Central America battle drug cartels.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26446644/

Will the horror events quit

The world is not getting any better, Americans get ready

I would rather walk down a street in Baghdad than I would anywhere in mexico at the moment!

Why isn't the military on our southern borders to protect American citizens from this harm?

Move all the military bases along the borders.

North America Command should be on the border instead of being in the center somewhere.

Why are they there to protect themselves?

All the bodies had star signs and the letter Z tattooed on them, police sources said.

Does the Z tattoo mean they are members of the paramilitary Mexican cartel Los Zetas?

The murderers are terrorists.

12 decapitated bodies found in Mexico

Police found 12 decapitated bodies yesterday on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, news organizations report.

"Photos of the crime scene showed headless corpses stacked on top of one another in a field outside the city of Merida. Some of the bodies had tattoos and were jumbled amid blankets and tarps," the Associated Press reports, adding: "The heads were not immediately found."

AFP says some of the victims' legs were tied together.

The Los Angeles Times reports that drug cartels have been decapitating their rivals in recent years.

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Originally Posted by vmonkey56

Move all the military bases along the borders.

North America Command should be on the border instead of being in the center somewhere.

Why are they there to protect themselves?

I'm not saying I'm for Obama by any means but I do remember him saying that we need a "large federal police force"... Even with McCain, something like this is going to happen.

Wait until after the elections.

Mexican governor blames Gulf cartel for beheadings

REUTERS

5:11 p.m. August 29, 2008

CANCUN, Mexico – The beheadings of twelve people in southern Mexico were probably the work of the powerful Gulf cartel based across the border from Texas, a state governor said Friday.

Eleven beheaded bodies with signs of torture were dumped outside the city of Merida in the Yucatan Peninsula Thursday. A 12th beheaded body was found 50 miles away in a small town to the east of Merida, also showing signs of torture.

“This seems to be the work of the Gulf cartel,â€