11 Mexican alleged assassins rounded up in raids

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http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Worl...88304-sun.html

MEXICO CITY -- Eleven alleged hit men for a powerful drug cartel were captured yesterday at two Mexico City mansions stocked with grenades and automatic weapons -- a day after one of the cartel's leaders was nabbed.
Police said it was the first time they have found a safe house linked to the cartel in the capital city.
"Yes, the cartel is operating here in Mexico City," Edgar Millan, top commander of Mexico's federal police, said at a news conference following pre-dawn raids on two houses in southern Mexico City. Eight men were arrested in one raid and three in the other.
Millan said the men, whose identities were not released, were part of three cartel "commando" groups that may have been preparing attacks in response to a federal crackdown on drug trafficking.
COMBAT DRUGS




President Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of soldiers into states throughout Mexico to combat drug gangs battling for territory and for control over corrupt local police forces.
The suspects were lined up in the mansions' spacious living rooms and presented to reporters alongside caches of seized weapons, including 20 fragmentation grenades, automatic weapons, rifles, and materials presumably intended for constructing a drug lab. Police also found 40 bulletproof vests, eight of which bore the initials FEDA, which Millan said was likely a Spanish acronym for "Arturo's Special Forces."
BROTHER ARRESTED
Arturo Beltran Leyva is one of five brothers believed to be leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, based in the northwestern Mexican state of the same name. A second brother, Alfredo Beltran Leyva, was arrested Monday in the Sinaloa capital of Culiacan with two suitcases containing $900,000, an assault rifle, a luxury SUV and 11 expensive watches, the army said.
Army Gen. Luis Arturo Oliver Cen said the arrested leader Beltran Leyva commanded two groups of hit men for the cartel, whose reach extends from the northwestern state of Sonora to the southern state of Oaxaca. He was allegedly in charge of transporting drugs, bribing officials and laundering money for the cartel, which is led by Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin Guzman. In the border state of Tamaulipas, across from Texas, dozens of soldiers in armoured cars surrounded police stations.

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