| Michael Webster:Investigative Reporter | | | | speculation that drug gangs orchestrated the attack in |
| Quoting anonymous federal and local officials the | | | | response to a series of raids against them in Mexico |
| Mexico City newspaper El Universal, reported in | | | | City, which had been relatively immune from cartel |
| Saturday's editions that Friday's bomber intended to | | | | violence. |
| plant the homemade device in the 12-story police | | | | "They don't attack strategic installations," Mr. Saynez |
| headquarters but accidentally detonated it 200 yards | | | | told reporters after a Navy ceremony. "They use |
| away. | | | | other methods." |
| The massive explosion blew out windows in | | | | But Arturo Yañez, who trains Mexico City |
| apartment buildings, damaged several cars and caused | | | | detectives and has worked in federal law |
| panic in the American La Rosa area of Mexico City. | | | | enforcement, said the bombing attempt looked too |
| El Universal identified the Sinaloa cartel, led by | | | | amateurish for sophisticated drug cartels, which have |
| JoaquÃn "El Chapo" Guzmán and the | | | | carried out surgical strikes against top law |
| Beltrán Leyva brothers, as the "intellectual authors" | | | | enforcement officials. |
| of the botched attack. | | | | A more likely suspect is the Popular Revolutionary |
| Suspicion is that this was a type of terrorist attack by | | | | Army, or EPR, Mr. Yañez added. |
| a possible suicide bomber and the dead man was the | | | | The EPR declared a campaign against government |
| cause of the explosion. Mexico City Police Chief Joel | | | | installations last year, demanding that two of its leaders |
| Ortega, during a television interview late Friday, said the | | | | be released from federal detention. Even though |
| man killed in the blast was wearing a dress suit over a | | | | federal authorities say they are not holding the two |
| sweat suit. He said the bomber probably planned to | | | | men. |
| plant the device and then take off the dress suit to | | | | In the mean time violence continues in Mexico City and |
| fool people monitoring security cameras. | | | | to the border cities to the north. In La Jornada Local |
| A 22-year-old woman believed to have accompanied | | | | legislators have asked the governor of Baja California |
| the bomber was seriously injured in the blast and could | | | | to urgently revise the "Public Security State System" |
| hold the key to the investigation, Chief Ortega added. | | | | due to the levels of violence in this border area.. |
| Mexican media said the woman lived in a | | | | Deputy Carlos Barboza pointed out that business |
| neighborhood awash in illegal drugs and near a Sinaloa | | | | people and non-governmental organizations complain |
| cartel operative arrested last week by Mexico City | | | | about the increase in kidnappings in Tijuana, Juarez, |
| officials. | | | | Mexicali and other border towns. He added that this |
| Mexican officials was not certain that this bomb attack | | | | growing violence harms society and families. "No one is |
| was a suicide attack or just a terrorist bomber. | | | | safe from its repercussions." Further, that law and |
| According to bomb experts suicide bomber is an | | | | order have been overwhelmed and thus it is urgent to |
| attack on a military or civilian target, in which an | | | | find a solution with the participation of various sectors |
| attacker intends to kill others, knowing that he or she | | | | of society and politicians. He labeled as "alarming" the |
| will either certainly or most likely die in the process. | | | | week about to end, during which there have been a |
| Most suicide bombers attach bomb vests to their body | | | | number of kidnappings, shootouts and homicides. |
| and detonate the bomb. This means of attack have | | | | Today in La Cronica Mexicali, three Mexican Federal |
| included vehicles filled with explosives, passenger | | | | Agents who had just arrived in Tijuana were |
| planes carrying large amounts of fuel, and individuals | | | | kidnapped and their bodies were found at dawn |
| wearing vests filled with explosives. Synonyms include | | | | yesterday by a dirt road on the outskirts of Tecate, |
| suicide-homicide bombing, martyrdom operations, | | | | Baja Calif.; the three had their arms tied behind their |
| predatory martyrdom. Strictly speaking, an attack may | | | | back and their heads had been wrapped with tape. |
| not be considered a suicide attack if the attacker is | | | | They had all had been shot in the head and the empty |
| not killed (although they might hope and plan to be), or | | | | cartridges by the bodies are of AK47 combat rifle |
| if there is some question as to whether their intention is | | | | casings. |
| to be killed even if the attack is certain to kill them. | | | | The Chief of Police of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Juan |
| A top Mexican military official has ruled out the use of | | | | Jose Muniz Salinas, was arrested by Mex. federal |
| soldiers to reinforce security in the Mexican capital, | | | | police and has been taken to Mexico City. Though not |
| because he believes it was apparently a bungled | | | | yet formally charged, his arrest is based on the belief |
| attack on police headquarters by the suspected | | | | that he was protecting the "Zetas" thugs. The police |
| bomber who blew himself up and injured his female | | | | facility's radio frequencies were also believed to be |
| accomplice. | | | | compromised and are being investigated. |
| Navy Minister Francisco Saynez discounted | | | | |