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Hezbullah comes to Mexico

I've warned many times about Hezbullah being in Mexico, most recently here. Now, it's become more obvious. A Hezbullah-style car bomb killed four people in Juarez on Thursday night - just across the border from El Paso, Texas.

People in Juarez are recovering from a car bomb that killed four Thursday night. The victims include two federal agents, an ambulance worker and a doctor who was in the area when the bomb went off.

Tonight, we have learned that it was a car bomb that was detonated with the same kind of sophistication that is used by terrorist groups like Hezbollah.

A number of people were injured during the attack. Today we know that seven federal police agents were severely injured. A news photographer from channel 5 in Juarez remains in critical condition. One woman who owns a business nearby talked to us about her fears.

"As it is, we are not selling much. Can you imagine right now people are scared. We used to have many American customers. Right now that has drastically decreased," says the business owner.

According to police, it appears a Ford Focus was driven into a police convoy crashing into two federal police units. Information from officials indicates that there were hand grenades attached to the gas tank of the car in order to cause the explosion. Juarez mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said today that the general public shouldn't be worried because recent attacks have been focused on police. "Luckily it has been limited to either the police or the members of those two groups of organized crime. We don't have any information that leads us to believe any attacks are going to be made on the population itself," states Ferriz.

There should have been a fifth person killed - the person who drove the car into the police convoy. Here's betting he wasn't a Presbyterian.

And for all you Americans, that's right across the border and your government has done nothing to prepare for it.

What could go wrong?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:30 PM