Plot to assassinate Fox investigated

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/021305dnintmissiles.7c84.html

Group working for drug cartel alleged to have anti-aircraft missiles

08:12 PM CST on Saturday, February 12, 2005

By ALFREDO CORCHADO and ANGELA KOCHERGA / The Dallas Morning News

MEXICO CITY – Mexican and U.S. officials are probing reports that a group of Mexican army deserters who work for the violent Gulf drug cartel may have acquired two anti-aircraft missiles that could be used to assassinate President Vicente Fox.

The renegade paramilitary group, known as the Zetas, allegedly purchased the two Russian surface-to-air missiles from the black market in Central America, according to a January report by private intelligence service Stratfor and a report in Saturday's Mexico City newspaper, El Universal, which quoted officials in both Mexico's Interior Ministry and Secretary of Public Security.

At a news conference Saturday, the nation's top crime fighters played down the threat and said they needed time to verify the information.

"We're not assigning this any credibility," Mexican Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said during a news conference here. "It's worthy of an investigation ... the public should not be alarmed by this."

[napi21]

1. Why do they hate Fox?

If you would have said a renegade group in the US was trying this, I'd have at least understood why, but what's the Mexican's problem with him?

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2. I didn't know you could assassinate a network. Rupert, get out of town

for a while, buddy.

[GoCubsGo05]

3. My initial thoughts, too! lol

[Chipper Chat]

5. Ditto

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4. Why would they use these anti-aircraft missiles on Fox rather than

a plane with someone else in it?