Rocket launchers in Nuevo Laredo
By Bill
Created 07/30/2005 - 03:38
The Brownsville Herald [1] reports that the US has temporarily closed its consulate in Nuevo Laraedo following a gunbattle
the night of July 28 between drug traffickers armed with grenades, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns. US
Ambassador Tony Garza said in a written statement that the consulate would suspend all operations except for emergency
services for US citizens through at least Aug. 5. The closure comes two days after Garza announced that escalating violence
has prompted the State Department to extend a travel advisory for the entire Mexican side of the border until further notice.
“As part of our security assessment, we will be gauging what should be a swift and certain response from the government of
Mexico, to bring this situation under control,†Garza said. Consulate officials in Nuevo Laredo are expected to reschedule
visa appointments, putting travel plans on hold for Mexican citizens.
According to the Mexican attorney general’s office, residents of the city’s Colonia Campestre district reported hearing
several rounds of shots at a home on the 2400 block of Calle Mexicali around 8 PM. No one was found inside the modest
home, but it appeared to have been damaged by rocket launcher blasts and machine-gun rounds. Mexican federal agents
discovered an abandoned Chevrolet Tahoe, three AK-47 assault rifles, two 9 mm handguns, a hand grenade and hundreds
of rounds of ammunition. Agents also found two grenade-damaged vehicles on nearby Calle Anahuac. No injuries or arrests
were reported at either location.
According to State Department figures, over 100 have been killed in drug trafficking violence on northern Mexican border
since June. At least eight of those deaths include Nuevo Laredo police officers and commanders.
See our last post [2] on Nuevo Laredo.
Links
[1] http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=66341_0_10_0_C
[2] http://www.ww4report.com/node/690
Source URL: http://www.ww4report.com/node/838
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Fake passports found at airport(Heathrow)
Gulf Times ^ | Aug 1 2005 | NA
Posted on 08/01/2005 4:33:36 PM CDT by Dog
LONDON: A bag stuffed with bogus passports, documents and bank cards was found abandoned at London’s Heathrow Airport, a newspaper said yesterday.
The News of the World called the find a ‘potential terrorist goldmine’ and said anti-terrorist officers were urgently probing the discovery.
The bag was spotted by a taxi driver on a verge near London’s main airport on Thursday.
The paper said the fear was that the bag could have been meant to aid further bombers enter and exit the country.
The 19 passports inside were for Pakistani, British, Indian, Nepalese and South African nationals.
The newspaper said pictures of the same men appear on different passports in different names.
Many passports had fake visas in different shades of ink from genuine documents.
The holdall, bearing a tag of a Middle East airline, contained a letter written to a man in Dewsbury, - home to July 7, London suicide bomber Mohamed Sidique Khan.
Other documents were linked to nearby Leeds, where two other July 7, suicide bombers hailed from, and north London, another area involved in anti-terror investigations.
An interior ministry source told the weekly: “The holdall could be quite a significant discovery. Somebody must have really panicked to have thrown away so much potential evidence.” – AFP
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