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Mexico
Army Nabs Cartel Suspect - Claims To Have Dissolved 300 Bodies In Acid

Posted:
24 Jan 2009 11:26 PM PST

A suspect in police custody calls himself a “stewmaker” for a Mexican
drug lord, saying he disposed of about
300 bodies by dissolving
them in acid.

A suspected hit man who allegedly dumped more than 300 bodies in vats
of lye at the behest of a top
Tijuana crime boss has been
arrested near Ensenada, according to the Mexican military.

Alleged crime boss Teodoro Garcia Simental, nicknamed El Teo, narrowly
escaped after soldiers on
Thursday raided an
upscale resort outside the Baja California port city 70 miles south of San
Diego,
according to one Mexican news report.

The military said Santiago Meza Lopez, a 45-year-old from the state of
Sinaloa, was arrested after
allegedly trying to flee from
soldiers and federal agents on the Ensenada- Tijuana coastal
highway.
Soldiers also arrested Garcia’s cook and seized four
automatic weapons and two grenades.

Military authorities said Meza admitted being Garcia’s body disposal
expert, nicknamed
“El Pozolero del Teo” — roughly translated:
Teo’s soup maker.

Garcia, said to be in his mid-30s, is believed to be battling the
Arellano Felix drug cartel for
control of the Tijuana area in a turf
war that has claimed more than 500
lives since late September.
Many of the disintegrated remains left in barrels
on busy streets have
been attributed to El Teo, and have included messages
addressed
to reputed rivals threatening to make their henchmen into pozole, a
Mexican soup.

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Convicted
Terrorist Scheduled For Release

Posted:
24 Jan 2009 11:15 PM PST

In 1973, a young terrorist named Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary entered the
United States and quickly
began plotting an audacious attack in New
York City.

He built three powerful bombs — bombs powerful enough to kill, maim and
destroy — and put them
in rental cars scattered around town, near
Israeli targets.

The plot failed. The explosive devices did not detonate, and Al-Jawary
fled the country, escaping
prosecution for nearly two decades —
until he was convicted of terrorism charges
in Brooklyn and
sentenced to 30 years in federal penitentiary.

But his time is up.

In less than a month, the 63-year-old Al-Jawary is expected to be
released. He will likely be deported;
where to is anybody’s
guess. The shadowy figure had so many aliases it’s
almost
impossible to know which country is his true homeland.

Al-Jawary has never admitted his dark past or offered up tidbits in
exchange for his release. Much
of Al-Jawary’s life remains a
mystery — even to the dogged FBI case agent who tracked him down.

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