This is just so sad!
Bob Hlonghairedbeatnik - 6-7-2009 at 09:06 AM
I just heard on the news that this happened in the hotel district and there were tourists running for cover while this two hour gun battle took place.
The bad guys used automatic weapons and threw over fifty hand grenades.
Can you believe this crap . DENNIS - 6-7-2009 at 09:31 AM
"We found them like this, handcuffed, and they say they were kidnapped. So, if they were kidnapped, as they say, then we rescued them," the colonel
said, pointing to the four men.
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And, who wouldn't believe them? They took an oath never to tell a lie.
I suppose the kidnapping just happened. Otherwise someone may have been aware of them missing.Bajajack - 6-7-2009 at 09:52 AM
Everything about this story Stinks real bad, do the math.
Woooosh - 6-7-2009 at 01:11 PM
Yeah- the 50 grenades going off can't be right. Total overkill andwaste of grenades. I think it's funny as hell that the perps handcuffed themselves
and became the instant kidnap victims who were "apparenety rescued". Everyone knows kidnapped cops aren't held for ransom, the narco take them out
for a night "bowling".
So my guess is the two month "truce" is officially over in western Mexico with the return of vilence to TJ, Juarez and now Acapulco.Udo - 6-7-2009 at 01:17 PM
I would not put it past the "kidnapped cops" that they were helping the narcos, and when the saw the ensuing battle, handcuffed each other and
pretended to be kidnap victims.
I agree with woooosh about the grenades.BajaDove - 6-7-2009 at 04:48 PM
lousy TV series...you have to get a twist to the plot. You can't sell the same thing again and againDENNIS - 6-7-2009 at 05:54 PM
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Originally posted by BajaDove
lousy TV series...you have to get a twist to the plot. You can't sell the same thing again and again
Why not? The ejidos do it with their land all the time.BajaDove - 6-7-2009 at 06:47 PM
That's not nice Dennis. It's a different family member each time.
I didn't say that I must have caught something reading Caboron.DENNIS - 6-7-2009 at 06:53 PM
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Originally posted by BajaDove
That's not nice Dennis. It's a different family member each time.
I stand corrected. Thanks.JESSE - 6-7-2009 at 08:05 PM
Doesn´t seem like such a bad outcome to me. 16 narcos shot dead, and 2 soldiers died unfortunatelly.
16 pieces of s*** less to worry about.Von - 6-7-2009 at 09:24 PM
18 not 16Woooosh - 6-9-2009 at 08:28 AM
Round Two. Did they announce previously that Two bystanders were killed in the first attack the day before?
Todays UT Editorial has even more different numbers: "The Acapulco shootout involved nearly 200 Mexican soldiers and an undisclosed number of cartel
members and their associates. Sixteen cartel gunmen and two soldiers were killed. Three Mexican bystanders were injured."
But, back to round two details:
"Gunmen hit two police stations in Acapulco" ACAPULCO, Mexico -
Gunmen launched grenades and opened fire in near-simultaneous attacks on two police stations in Acapulco yesterday, killing three officers in violence
that broke out less than 48 hours after a gunbattle in the resort left 17 dead. The bold, pre-dawn attacks yesterday also wounded one police officer
in this Pacific resort city, which has long been plagued by drug violence.
Gunmen fatally shot two officers sitting in a patrol car parked outside one police station. A few minutes later, assailants attacked a second station,
about two miles away, wounding two officers, according to the Guerrero state police department. One of the officers later died.
Soldiers set up roadblocks in search of the assailants, who shot up at least eight patrol cars. A state police official, who was not authorized to
give his name, said investigators are looking at whether the attacks were in retaliation for Saturday's gunbattle.
The weekend shootout between soldiers and alleged drug traffickers killed 13 suspected hit men, two soldiers and two bystanders, Daniel Velasco, a
military commander in Acapulco, told reporters yesterday.
A hit man named "Commander Magana" with the Beltran Leyva cartel was among the dead, Velasco said. Thousands of shots and 50 grenade explosions
marked the battle, which erupted after soldiers received a tip that a group of armed men were gathered at a gated house less than 100 yards from the
Los Flamingos Hotel, which was once a private club for such Hollywood stars as John Wayne and Johnny Weissmuller.
