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THE BOUND AND gagged bodies of 26 young men were found dumped yesterday in the heart of Mexico’s second-largest city.
Experts said the grisly find could mark a new stage in the full-scale war between the country’s two main drug cartels, Sinaloa and the Zetas.
The bodies were stuffed in two vans and a pickup truck abandoned on an expressway near the Millennium Arches in Guadalajara, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the picturesque city that hosted last month’s Pan American Games.
Most of the men died of asphyxia, according to officials in Jalisco state where Guadalajara is located, though initial reports indicated some had been shot.
The victims, apparently between the ages of 25 and 35, all had the words “Milenio Zetas” or “Milenium” written on their chests in oil, said Jalisco state Interior Secretary Fernando Guzman Perez. A law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak on the record said the writing was apparently meant as the killers’ calling card, identifying the assassins as being from the Zetas and a smaller, allied gang, the Milenio Cartel.
The official said a banner found in one of the vehicles – whose contents Guzman Perez refused to reveal – was in fact signed by the Zetas. Mexican cartels frequently leave threatening messages with the bodies of their victims as a way of intimidating rivals and claiming responsibility for their actions.
The killings, apparently carried out before dawn, bore an eerie similarity to the September 20 dumping of 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf coast city of Veracruz.
The victims in the Veracruz mass slaying were purportedly Zetas and the killers were allegedly linked to the Sinaloa cartel; those two cartels have emerged as Mexico’s most powerful, and have each been trying to expand into each others’ territories.
Raul Benitez, a professor at Mexico’s National Autonomous University who studies security issues, said the Guadalajara mass killing may have been retaliation for the Veracruz slayings.
“I think the Zetas are responding by giving back in kind … it is a game of one-upmanship,” said Benitez.
On Wednesday, 17 bodies were found burned in two pickup trucks in a strikingly similar attack in Sinaloa, the home state of the eponymous cartel. Twelve of the bodies were in the back of one truck, some of them handcuffed and wearing bulletproof vests.
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So why does Knock still charge passengers €12?
Airports are allowed charge a levy of their own, usually in order to fund expansion or renovation.
Holy water in the toilets?
A Development Fee of €10 is charged to all departing passengers from Ireland West Airport Knock aged 12 years and over. This is a service charge which the Airport charges for the use of its facilities and as a contribution toward infrastructure developments amount other services, usually It is included in the “Taxes and Charges” http://www.irelandwestairport.com/airportguide/airportdevelopmentfee.aspx
Perhaps they should be prohibited from charging a levy of their own. A level playing field in light of this ruling would benefit everyone.
In fairness, €12 is a bargain to get out of knock.
I’d pay €100 to get out of the kip
To fund the once-off Aer Lingus direct flight of Pilgrims from New York this summer? That flight can’t be cheap for anybody concerned!
For the holyness , sure dont u no the water in knock
Cured fr.jack himself
Good god…i hope its not becAuse off the holy water
It’s really not like our government to have 1 Fook up after another…
It was actually FF who messed up and FG changed to a flat rate before scrapping it.
Not to mention the European Commission’s lazy ruling.
And how much did the FG government spend on fees before losing this case.
I mean, it’s not as though FG are doing anything different from FF, is it?
If Michael O’Leary got into politics, this would be a different country. He would sort out the lot of them up there trying to bleed the country dry
Yes and maybe we would be working for his low pay way of life too.
On the contrary, it’s people who think that running a country is like running a business that have damaged this country the most in recent years.
So I assume aer lingus and Ryanair will refund me the tax I paid to them that they never passed on.. I also assume I will have to go through the small claims court to get the money back as I have travel 39 + times … ching ching
Ryanair comparable *family friendly*flights cost double that of June 2013 prices when the tax was included to flights . ryanair are ripping off ppl and now have saved 12 million from tax payers . Michael o Leary propaganda using his family to make money family friendly my a** . MoL only believes in profit. He should donate that money to #jakeslegacy and make a difference
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