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IEDs come to Mexico

20 July 2010

Car bombs have been used by terrorists and guerrilla groups in the Middle East, Ireland, Spain, and Colombia but, until last Thursday, not in Mexico

The Juárez bombing involved an elaborate scheme - the perpetrators dressed a man in a police uniform and laid him on the ground to lure others to the body. Tthe explosion occurred right after a paramedic and a federal agent approached the body.

The bombing was part of a brutal war drug cartels have been waging to control the Chihuahua state drug smuggling corridor that has claimed more than 1,500 lives so far this year

Experts with the FBI and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are helping Mexican authorities with their investigation of the 15 July car bombing in Juárez that killed three people. "The FBI sent a small team to the crime scene to consult with our Mexican counterparts and we have offered them technical assistance with the car bombing," El Paso FBI Special Agent Andrea Simmons said Sunday. "We would only be involved if the Mexican government asked for our assistance in some way."

www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com

 

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