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| More Horror Stories from Mexio - Top Cop Killed |
| 2008-05-08 |
| Things are getting out of hand south of the border Drug hitmen, one wielding a pistol with a silencer, shot dead one of Mexico's top federal police officers at his home Thursday, in a blow to President Felipe Calderón's fight against cartels. Federal police officers patrol the entrance to the hospital where Mexico's acting Federal Police Chief Edgar Millan Gomez died after being shot outside his home by unknown assailants in Mexico City, Thursday. The Public Safety Department said Edgar Milla Three gunmen waited for regional commissioner Edgar Millan at his house in the capital and shot him nine times as he came home early Thursday morning and opened the door from the street, government officials said. “They were hunting him,” a spokesman for the Security Ministry said. Media reports linked the attackers, one of whom was caught by Millan's bodyguards, to the powerful Sinaloa cartel, headed by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman. Millan was the head of operations for a federal police force known as the PFP and was in charge of coordinating large-scale operations to break organized crime rings, including drug trafficking. Calderón's office condemned the “cowardly murder of an exemplary public servant who was committed to the safety of Mexican families.” Millan took a leading role in the arrest in January of about 12 Sinaloa cartel gunmen. The cartel was rumored to have formed a “special forces” team of killers preparing high-level hits to retaliate against the government for launching an offensive against drug traffickers. Calderón has sent thousands of troops and federal police to take on drug gangs near the U.S. border and in other parts of Mexico since he took office in December 2006. Last year, there were more than 2,500 drug killings across Mexico and over 1,100 people have died this year as the drug gangs fight each other and the security forces. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #1 We got a problem on our borders. Waiting to hear what McCain now says about this issue. This issue nearly torpedoed his chances for President a year or so ago. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-05-08 22:12 |