Beheadings on the U.S. Border

This is not the first time we have beheaded and mutilated bodies on the United States border and in other Mexican locations. Generally we think of beheading in places like the Middle East, not in our backyard. This is not Islamic terrorists, it's Mexican drug gangs. This particular man may have been a police officer. Part of this brutality is over 'billion-dollar smuggling routes into the United States.'

Mexican police found a mutilated, beheaded body dumped outside a military base on the U.S. border ...

The torso, headless and missing its limbs, was wrapped in a plastic bag and blankets and spotted by passers-by before dawn in the seedy Mexican border city of Tijuana, near San Diego, and not far from a Mexican police anti-drugs squad office.

It was one of the goriest among some 900 gangland-style murders this year by feuding drug cartels.

"An execution of this kind can only be committed by organized crime," said an official at the Baja California state attorney general's office. (Reuters)

Areas around Acapulco have seen several reports of brutal beheading and killing. Last year "two police officers' heads, streaming with blood, were stuck on metal spikes outside a downtown building with a fluorescent cardboard sign. "So that you learn to respect," it read in thick black letters." (More at Chicago Tribune)

Fred Burton of Strategic Forecast, has an excellent article, "Mexico: The Price of Peace in the Cartel Wars":

So far, 2007 has been a bad year for one of Mexico's two most powerful drug-trafficking enterprises: the Gulf cartel. In January, the organization suffered a major hit when Mexico extradited its captured leader, Osiel Cardenas, to the United States. Then, on April 17, authorities arrested five Gulf members just south of the Texas border in Reynosa. Among those taken into custody was Juan Oscar Garza, purportedly an important Gulf cartel leader in the city. Less than a week later, authorities in Nuevo Laredo captured Gulf cartel leader Eleazar Medina Rojas. The Mexican Attorney General's office described Medina as "a major killer."

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Comments

[JR]

I wonder, have they had mid east influence on this type of violence?
Perhaps this is on their own volition.

Just another reason to SECURE THE DAMN BORDER!

[StormWarning]

I have had extreme involvement and interest in the Mexican border wars, even before I moved down here. Yes, I noted that mention and I appreciate it.

We've provided technical support on numerous south of the broder operations in the last 7 years or so. One of my associates (a retired spec-ops guy) recently told me that he felt safer in Baghdad than he does on the border. To an extent, what we are witnessing is the effect of the activities of the Zetas. More later.

[Debbie]

Stormwarning, I gave you a mention and a trackback on this. Look forward to your new article on the Stratfor/Fred Burton article. I only mentioned it slightly.

[StormWarning]

Debbie: As you know quite well, I have been covering the border situation and the Drug Cartel Wars for quite some time. This is not a surprise to me at all, and certainly not a surprise to a few of my friends who are involved in border CT work. Beheadings for the drug cartels have been going on for a while, with Acapulco being one of the more prominent scenes.

I had planned to post on Burton's Stratfor article (my analysis is only partially done at this point) and still may because I have other information to add, but not now.

Welcome to the Third World country "south of our border."

[nanc]

a fence usually makes a very good neighbor, no?

[Debbie]

Kevin, thanks and I just approved the trackback.

Butch and Layla, thanks so much.

[kevin]

I cross posted this one Debbie.

[Butch]

Just horrible...

[Layla]

Great post Debbie and thank you for letting us know about this. I have heard about this type of crime in the past. It is horrible and wicked.

Yet our borders are still not secured - what does that tell you?