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...drug gangs are proven to be behind the blast, it would show a worrying escalation in the battle between organized crime and the government. Since Jan. 1, drug cartel gunmen armed with huge arsenals of automatic rifles and grenade launchers have slain more than 30 police, soldiers and judges in ambushes and assassinations. The attacks come as Calderon has made record drug busts, sent 25,000 police and soldiers against the gangs, and extradited alleged kingpins to the United States...
While the Mexican crime families do not have a history of using bombs, explosive devices used to be a favored tactic of their associates in Colombia. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Medellin cartel responded to a government crackdown with bombs on street corners, cars and even one passenger jet, killing hundreds. Colombian gangsters have long been selling cocaine to the Mexican cartels, who smuggle it into the United States. "The cartels could be turning to this Colombian tactic of using terror to pressure the government to back off," said Mexican drug expert Jorge Chabat. "They may be trying...
Fortunato, who was 20 at the time of the crime, was charged with a hate crime, but in court a wrinkle emerged: he said he is bisexual and had visited gay chatrooms for sex many times. As a bisexual who had regular sex with men, did Fortunato really hate gay men? So much so that he would target one for robbery and beating? Possibly. As Kolker wrote, "Lots of gay hate crimes are committed by confused, self-loathing gay people." Or was it more likely that Fortunato picked Sandy for robbery merely because he knew a convenient place...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy in November that such violence "can not remain unpunished." But on Monday Sarkozy's political rivals questioned whether the real objective of the busts wasn't instead to stage a diversion to the President's plunging approval ratings with a bit of heart-stirring crime fighting for the nation's media to lap up. Such high-profile law-and-order activity, Sarkozy's detractors allege, might also help limit losses the right is expected to suffer should voters use nationwide municipal elections next month to express dismay with the national leadership of Sarkozy and his ruling...
...probe began almost by accident. During an investigation into organized crime, agents of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, became acquainted with an employee of a bank in Liechtenstein, a tiny principality between Austria and Switzerland with very secretive banking laws. The agents turned their contact over to German tax authorities. With the approval of the German government, tax investigators paid the contact more than $7 million (5 million euros) and provided him with a new identity in exchange for a CD detailing the Liechtenstein bank accounts of hundreds of German citizens...