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Off Topic: A Massive Cover-Up in America's 'War on Drugs'? - UPDATE

This is a rather shocking story, wherein U.S. media has apparently, and perhaps intentionally, ignored it for unknown reasons.

If true, heads should roll, and those responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Via The Observer (UK).

Luis Padilla, 29, father of three, had been kidnapped, driven across the Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to a house in Ciudad Juarez, the lawless city ruled by drug lords that lies across the Rio Grande. As his wife tried frantically to locate him, he was being stripped, tortured and buried in a mass grave in the garden - what the people of Juarez call a narco-fossa, a narco-smugglers' tomb.

Just another casualty of Mexico's drug wars? Perhaps. But Padilla had no connection with the drugs trade; he seems to have been the victim of a case of mistaken identity. Now, as a result of documents disclosed in three separate court cases, it is becoming clear that his murder, along with at least 11 further brutal killings, at the Juarez 'House of Death', is part of a gruesome scandal, a web of connivance and cover-up stretching from the wild Texas borderland to top Washington officials close to President Bush.

posted by Fergie @ 12/03/2006 03:33:00 PM