Graffiti message in Juarez warns of another car bomb

[Alpha Mare]

A graffiti message found Sunday night in Juárez warned U.S. law enforcement that another car bombing will occur if they do not arrest corrupt federal police agents.
The unsigned message told the FBI and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate authorities that support the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Otherwise, there will be another car bomb placed in Juárez to kill federal police, the threat stated.

"If in 15 days, there is no response with detention of corrupt federales, we will put a car with 100 kilos of C4," the message read.

Composite 4, or C-4, was the plastic explosive used for an attack that killed three people Thursday in Downtown Juárez, according to military officials in Juárez.

FBI officials in El Paso said they will not investigate the nature of the message because it is in a foreign country.
Mexican federal police said they do not regard it as a credible threat.

"We don't give importance to those messages," said José Ramón Salinas, spokesman for the federal police. Military officials in Juárez said 10 kilos of explosive rigged in a car were detonated from a cell phone that day. 

1 Dead, 16 Wounded in Nuevo Laredo Grenade Attack

A grenade attack was reported late Monday night in Nuevo Laredo at the Benito Juarez sports complex located on the east side of the river, near the Parque Viveros and the Rio Grande.
The incident occurred around 11pm when unknown assailants threw a grenade that detonated in the spectator’s section of a football field within the sports complex.

Pools of blood and a child’s sandals were all that remained at the site Tuesday morning. A retaining wall at the site was marked by shrapnel impacts.

The motive for the attack remains unknown to the public at large. The attack could have been directed at one or several targeted individuals or may have been a terrorist attack on innocent civilians.

The Nuevo Laredo daily newspapers such as El Diario and El Manana amazingly refuse to cover any news story that is related to the actions of drug cartels. The grenade attack listed above was also ignored by both newspapers.
One incident that was confirmed by the Laredo Morning News was an unprovoked attack on a city bus full of innocent civilians by criminal gunmen. Three children are still in serious condition in local hospitals from this attack and a female passenger has been paralyzed from the waist down.

Rumors that there were several deaths among the passengers were not mentioned by the Laredo, Tx newspaper. However the following photographs show at least one dead victim aboard a city bus.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/1-dead-16-wounded-in-nuevo-laredo.html

Death Toll in Mexico Massacre Rises to 18

A woman wounded in the attack over the weekend on people attending a birthday party in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila has died, raising the death toll in the incident to 18, officials said Monday.

All 18 victims of the massacre in the city of Torreon have been identified, spokesmen for the state Attorney General’s Office said.
“Four of the dead were members of the Banda Rios, which provided the music for the birthday of one of the victims,” the AG’s office spokesmen said.
Twelve men and five women were pronounced dead at the scene at the Italia Inn restaurant, where police found 166 bullet casings.
Of the 18 wounded, one has died and six others were released from the hospital on Monday.
Some relatives of the victims suspended the wakes because they received threats, media outlets in Torreon reported.

At 1:30 AM Sunday, an unknown number of gunmen traveling in a convoy of between 5 to 8 trucks entered a birthday party being held at a country villa known as the “Italia Inn” and massacred 17 partygoers, including 5 women.
A threat against the Italia Inn had been issued on a Spanish language drug war internet forum in May immediately after the attack during the grand opening of the Juanasbar bar in Torreon that left 9 youths dead and 19 others wounded.
The threat translates to “the next one (mass killing) will be in the quinta (or country villa) next to the business establishment Gayoso, if you keep screwing around don’t say we didn’t warn you, you decide”
The country villa next to the Gayoso is the Italia Inn.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/17-massacred-in-torreon-fiesta.html