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AT LEAST 15 police officers have been killed in an ambush by a gang in western Mexico.
Five more officers were wounded in the assault, which took place on Monday on a highway near the village of Soyatan.
The gang attacked a convoy carrying the elite state police unit headed to Guadalajara, Mexico’s second biggest city.
“They died in a cowardly attack, which means that we can’t let our guard down,” said Francisco Alejandro Solorio Arechiga, Jalisco’s state security commissioner.
“Fifteen of our colleagues lost their lives. Five officers were also wounded in this regrettable event, they’re all in stable condition,” he said.
The Jalisco state prosecutor’s office had reported the attack late Monday but had not confirmed the fatalities, saying only that several officers had been “hit by bullets.”
Officials did not identify the gang but a security source says they suspect the powerful “Jalisco New Generation Drug Cartel” carried out the assault.
Authorities say the assault appeared to be in revenge over the arrest of gang suspects in an investigation into a failed assassination attempt against Solorio on 30 March.
“These attacks are a reaction of organised crime after the attack against me,” Solorio said after a meeting of federal police, military and state security officials in Guadalajara.
Fifteen suspects are under investigation over the attack against Solorio. Four of them have been detained.
The assassination bid was itself a response to a 23 March operation in the town of Zacoalco de Torres in which three gang suspects were killed, the statement said.
In a separate gun battle four days earlier which left 11 people dead.
Violent gang
More than 100,000 people have died or gone missing since Mexico’s drug war began to escalate in 2006 with the deployment of troops to combat drug cartels.
The Jalisco drug cartel has fought violent turf wars with the Knights Templar gang in the neighboring state of Michoacan for years.
The cartel emerged in 2010 after the death of Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, alias “Nacho Coronel,” the top leader in Jalisco for the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel.
Criminals have attacked other authorities in Jalisco in the past year.
In September, a federal lawmaker was abducted as he drove to the airport near Guadalajara, Mexico’s second biggest city. His charred body was found hours later in a neighboring state.
In May, a group of 30 gunmen armed with grenades ambushed a military truck near the town of Guachinango, killing four soldiers.
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Apple just unveiled a panicked man with no new ideas
Is there a panic button on the IPhone
“IT’S STILL OFFICIALLY summer”
… Sept 14th
It’s officially summer until September 21st.
And all ye sheep are going to run out and buy em, yet complain about having no money because of the goverment… Doesnt add up
You don’t add up.
Sent from my smart phone.
Shhhh.
If it wasn’t for all the tech junkie early adopters and self esteem purchasing trend chasers, tech would be a lot more expensive for those of us who buy when the increasing need line meets the reducing bug line.
I think its people right to have a say in what they do with THEIR money Noel. Should we just hand over everything we earn and get some food stamps back.
God forbid we should give a shit where our money goes we have smart phones sure what more do we want …..
Trickle feeding us technology, just imagin how far advanced we would be only for the stock market’s.
That’s a chicken and egg thing. The stock market provides the motivation to innovate. The innovations then have to be drip fed to not saturate the market so as not to depress prices so lowering incentive….
“Trickle feeding us technology, just imagin how far advanced we would be”
A monkey with a smartphone is still a monkey
Enjoy your smart phone bud! There are some of us out there who can see beyond the end of our noses!
I’m glad you took the time to prove my point.
Have a banana Tim :-)
Are you sure you can spare one?
Not this week, the stock markets are only drip feeding them on to the market creating demand to maintain their value.
I’ll pick up a few extra later when I go to Aldi.
Tell you what I’ll get my own, you just wouldn’t know where you keep yours! They might be warm.
No I keep them in the fridge along with your sense of humour :-)
Ok if you were only kidding, my point is valid though, the one about the technology not the bananas :-)
Yep but lets find some middle ground here
http://bananaphone.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/banana-phone-3.jpg
What ever next? Touche.
I hate the negative press the Windows 8 gets, personally I love it the kids have no problem with it they are more adaptable to change where as older users just have hisses over the start key missing
It may be great for first time users and kidding particular at it has really simplified the UI. For long time Windows users it is extremely frustrating to navigate around.
Stop being puppets to bill Gates and try linux …. forget itunes and try spotify on your phone for free…
Sent from my ice cream sandwich
Spotify is a rip-off for the artists. They get 0.000001 euro or something ridiculous per song streamed.
It’s still more than the amount they get when people download it illegally.
So who cares
Sandwich that you can send a comment from – cool!!
Serge don’t talk utter shite. Spotify pays record publishers (EMI, Sony etc.) annual fees to have that music available for streaming. It supports the industry because that revenue drives publishers to invest in different music, and musicians get a cut themselves.
Windows 8 proof that consumers will buy any crap going !!
I was firmly against Win8 until my laptop died and I had to buy a new one. Once i got used to the less than user friendly system i quite like it. The charms menu is a nice touch
I’ve a feeling that support and updates are going to be discontinued for the iPhone 4 a lot sooner than was the case for the 3S.
Hooked on credit to buy shiny new baubles might go part of the way to explain it.
The gold iPhone will make it easier to spot an idiot anyway
Yep, like an “only god can judge me” tattoo.
Any prices for 5S or 5C in Ireland?
The price of looking like an idiot if you buy a 5c, a worse antenna and a worse battery life for the same price as an iPhone 5(which is being taken off the market)
Excellent comeback. I Salute you sir! :)
The iPhone 5 is not been taken off the market. The only iPhone that is being discontinued is the iPhone 4. Apple will now only be offering the iPhone 4s in an 8gb model, then the 5 and so on…
http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-5-discontinued-where-did-they-all-go-12297621/ millions of these articles online now
Nothing compares to a book whose pages you can turn.
Well a book whose pages you can’t turn certainly wouldn’t.
At least the keyboard keys don’t stick like the pages of a magazine
Some of us read books because we want to read the story and not because we’re paper pulp fetishists. For me, ebooks are much more convenient than dead tree books.
I was of that opinion untill I got a kindle, you’ll never turn back ;)
Whats the point of prices in dollars ?
It’s an American article. The PS4 is out here November 29. Not November 15 as that’s the U.S. release date.
Whats the point in the article then we don’t live i. Good old USA
New android system sponsored by nestle
Wrong.
What exactly does this latest piece of over-hyped, over-priced, gizmo got that the 4S or 5 doesn’t? Absolutely dada IMHO! Nope, I got that wrong, the 5S – S which presumably stands for “same” as the 5 – has finger-print recognition technology. There you go, that’s worth 600 lids, is it not?
Apple and co are locked into a release cycle their forecasting and whole business depends on releasing a new phone every x months.
This means dev teams sit around thinking of what they can add to release which usually means 1) upgrade CPU 2) better screen and 3) some novel thing.
If they gave us the latest and greatest they wouldn’t be able to release a new phone for years and go bust.
What has the 5s got? An incremental increase in capability and features over previous editions. Surely you are familiar with this process from other consumer goods (cars, coffee makers etc.)? It shouldn’t be that surprising a concept.
x who’s going to buy the x box 1 when they are going to charge you to play 2nd hand games on it. Microsoft you just shot j in the foot on this one
Sorry but they reversed that decision on DRM ages ago after the public backlash.
The Xbone comes with an NSA spy camera (kinect) connected to an always on Internet connection. What could possibly go wrong?
I’m waiting for the Galaxy Note 3 to come out, then I can get the Note 2 at a reduced price. I want to upgrade to this from the Galaxy S2 for the stylus feature. Instead of browsing on my free time, I can get back to sketching. From what I’ve read there isn’t much difference between the two to warrant getting the more expensive, newer version.
What have Roku Inc released!?? I see Samsung bought Boxee a few months back so I’m eagerly awaiting their next gen of Smart TV, if only to drool over as crazy prices.
Doin’ me head in!
Do you want to value the stock price of Samsung or Apple?
I advice you to check http://sharevaluecalculator.com
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