Observer:The House of Death (Washington cover-up)

When 12 bodies were found buried in the garden of a Mexican house, it seemed like a case of drug-linked killings. But the trail led to Washington and a cover-up that went right to the top. David Rose reports from El Paso

Janet Padilla's first inkling that something might be wrong came when she phoned her husband at lunchtime. His mobile phone was switched off. On 14 January, 2004, Luis had, as usual, left for work at 6am, and when he did not answer the first call Janet made, after taking the children to school, she assumed he was busy. Two weeks later she would learn the truth.

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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.

These documents, which form a dossier several inches thick, are the main source for the facts in this article. They suggest that while the eyes of the world have been largely averted, America's 'war on drugs' has moved to a new phase of cynicism and amorality, in which the loss of human life has lost all importance - especially if the victims are Hispanic. The US agencies and officials in this saga - all of which refused to comment, citing pending lawsuits - appear to have thought it more important to get information about drugs trafficking than to stop its perpetrators killing people.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1962643,00.html

But what I am reading is somehow more chilling than anything that is going on in the Middle East. Is is because this is so much closer to home and involves U. S. citizens? Maybe it's the swift barbarity. Don't know, but everyone needs to see this.

K & R!

And, of course, our completely fucking worthless M$M will ignore probably the most important story since Abu Ghraib!!

:grr:

in corporate news America.

k&r

the MSM considers missing rich white women, Britney filing for divorce from her loser husband and TomKat's ridiculous wedding to be the "real" and important news that we apparently cannot live without. :eyes: :puke:

From deep in the Guardian Article:

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"The House Of Death suddenly seemed set to become a major national scandal. Bill Conroy, a reporter who works for an investigative website, www.Narconews.com , was about to publish an article about it. On 24 February, Sandy Gonzalez, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA office in El Paso, one of the most senior and highly decorated Hispanic law enforcement officers in America, wrote to his Ice counterpart, John Gaudioso."

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Narconews.com is not just "...an investigative website..." Bill Conroy and the other journalists who write there seem to take

their reporting very seriously.

the adopted home of my beloved and most moral President.

the bucket drowned in the ambush... ;)

and it all laps at the shore of George W. Bush and his cavalcade of criminal cohorts. These people are without conscience, they're psychopathic killers masquerading as pious believers in the almighty. Power and money are their real and only gods and woe to anyone that gets in their way.
I'm an atheist, but I wish there WERE a place called Hell. These slabs of human garbage posing as men of honor, truth and dignity certainly belong in such a place. :grr:

rears its ugly head once again.

The drugs war is designed to murder mexicans; to keep that
economy perpetually corrupt and destroyed; and to give the drugs nazis
summary execution powers taken straight to the top indeed.

The drugs nazis should be put on trial for their crimes against humanity,
until then, the evil drugs war establishment will only murder more
civilians in their pursuit of destroying our lives and the planet.

This hits me close to home since I look like a wild and rowdy biker type. :shrug:

It sucks when the cops decide that one is a criminal without
any evidence; choosing the old shakedown and power abuse to prove
that there 'really is a criminal' under civil demeanor.

Resisting criminal arrest, resisting criminal invasion of the home,
resisting criminal search and seizures, such things used to be
the basis of a long torn-up constitution and the disappeared
bill of rights.

I pledge no allegience to the prison gates of america,
and to the big corporates for which it stands, one prison,
under lockdown, invidious with no liberty or justice at all.

What is it now called "Oops"?

War is now 'whoops'
Treason 'oh'
hatred 'a'

a pinnacle of zion

The question is: How was OBL alienated to the point where he would attack his friends and benefactors?

I figure it was in 1981, whe 26 members of a North Yemeni Tribe were captured attempting to enter South Yemen for a sabotage attack. It seems the Border Guards became suspicious of the men when explosives were found packed on large red cookie tins with Merry Christmas and a picture of a jolly santa.

They were publicly beheaded as a warning to others.

That would tend to piss someone off.

Prince Bandar, Poppy and Rome were behind that one.

what a crazy story

And I mean everyone. Read this article from beginning to end and fathom how dangerous a world we live in. This woman and her family deserves justice. It doesn't matter that she was Mexican or that her husband who was tortured and killed because of mistaken identity was Mexican. This administration sees people as expendable, whether they are Mexican, Iraqi, or American.

not secret arms sales.

K & R for a really important story. Very sobering especially considering how many of Poppy's old cronies have been working for Jr.'s Admin.

The amorality and incompetence of the * administration is everywhere.

...could have been involved in this. I wouldn't be surprised if Abramoff is linked to this somehow.

Americans don't discriminate.
:sarcasm:

:scared:
Thats a scary article....k&r

London Observer plays carpetbagger on House of Death story
Dear editors,

I just read with great interest the House of Death story published today in the Observer, and it appears you got the "narrative" straight.

As you recall, it starts out with this breathless teaser:

When 12 bodies were found buried in the garden of a Mexican house, it seemed like a case of drug-linked killings. But the trail led to Washington and a cover-up that went right to the top. David Rose reports from El Paso

But your honesty about how the Observer obtained a good share of the source material for this startling story, particularly the reams of documents that you concede were utilized for your story, is not so straight, it appears.

I have every reason to believe the writer, David Rose, submitted a different version of the story than was finally published, and that he did include proper credit for his sourcing, and that you, the editors, chopped and diced that proper attribution in order to make it appear your newspaper did all the work and to ensure the advancement of your careers and paychecks.

I guess that is a not too surprising human weakness, since it surfaces time and again in the mainstream media, but I'm a bit surprised to see it playing out in the London media, even as you slap the U.S. press for its shortcomings -- as the following line from the Observer story illustrates

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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/12/3/0240/67728

This is really, really sick. And to think the IRS is chasing me down so that my tax dollars can directly fund murderous psychos.

...and the folks at Judiciary. :eyes: