Thread: Mexicans bomb US Embassy!

Bomb explodes at U.S. Consulate in Mexico

Published: April 11, 2010 at 9:29 AM

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, April 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has closed indefinitely after somebody hurled an explosive device over a fence, officials said.

The device detonated Friday night, shattering windows in the consulate, across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, but no one was injured, the U.S. embassy said.

The consulate said in a statement on its Web site it "will reopen when we are confident that we have adequate security to keep our visitors safe."

The New York Times reports the incident has renewed fears that violent Mexican drug traffickers may be targeting the U.S. government, which has supported President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug crusade.

The Mexican Attorney General of the Republic said it was looking at security-camera video and examining other evidence but did not give details about the device, which exploded about 11 p.m. local time Friday.

The incident comes after the shooting deaths last month of three people, including two Americans, linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, another town beset by violence and drug trafficking.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/04/ ... 270992572/

Explosives tossed at US embassy in Mexico

Posted Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:00pm AEST

Assailants hurled an explosive device at a United States consulate in a northern Mexico border city, damaging windows but causing no injuries, the consulate said on Saturday.

The device was thrown over a wall surrounding the consulate in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, on Friday night (local time).

The consulate said in a statement it would be closed indefinitely.

It was the latest attack on US consulates and consulate staff in Mexico.

Suspected drug hitmen killed three people linked to the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez last month, provoking outrage from US president Barack Obama and putting new pressure on Mexico to stop the growing violence.

Gunmen also threw a grenade at the US consulate in Monterrey in 2008.

Drug violence is raging across Mexico and almost 20,000 people have died in the fight among cartels and with Mexican security forces since president Felipe Calderon launched his army-led crackdown on drug gangs in late 2006.

Nuevo Laredo and the surrounding state of Tamaulipas have seen a surge in drug-related violence since the start of the year as the Gulf cartel fights its former armed wing, the Zetas, for smuggling routes into the United States.

The violence is scaring off tourists and worries Washington, which is giving anti-drug aid, equipment and police training to Mexico.

Some investors have frozen investment in factories in cities on the US border, especially in Ciudad Juarez, the most deadly spot in the drug war.

- Reuters

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... tion=world

Dan Rather surprised me this morning when he refered to Mexico as another potenial Iran but on our Southern Border.

added to homepage


http://www.alipac.us/article5116.html

Originally Posted by USPatriot

Dan Rather surprised me this morning when he refered to Mexico as another potenial Iran but on our Southern Border.

As I understand, Mexico is considered a very high security threat, somewhere on the level of Afghanistan?

Sounds like it's time to close our embasies there and put our troops on our border and seal it off!!

why don't we start trying to collect and post the names and cities of where these illegal drug runners live, and start a database of them, especially the ones threatening our citizens and OUR lawmakers? it would be great if our lawmakers would post the thug-drug names and their pictures too, let's expose them to the world

Welcome to ALIPAC mrlogical! Wouldn't it be great to do this?

Just think of how many U.S. police departments and ICE offices might be bombed if these people are legalized. Then it really will be like bloody Mexico.

That's precisely the goal of the OBL!!