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### Viewing cable 09MONTERREY100, MEXICO: TRACKING NARCO-GRENADES

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Reference ID | Created | Released | Classification | Origin
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09MONTERREY100 | 2009-03-03 17:05 | 2011-02-10 12:12 | SECRET//NOFORN | Consulate Monterrey
Appears in these articles: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/02/10/index.php?section=politica&article=006n1pol

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    VZCZCXRO7584
    PP RUEHWEB
    DE RUEHMC #0100/01 0771547
    ZNY SSSSS ZZH
    P R 031719Z MAR 09 ZDS
    FM AMCONSUL MONTERREY
    TO RUEHME/AMEMBASSY MEXICO 4622
    RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3569
    INFO RUEHXC/ALL US CONSULATES IN MEXICO COLLECTIVE
    RUEHCD/AMCONSUL CIUDAD JUAREZ 0070
    RHMFISS/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DC
    RHMFISS/FBI WASHINGTON DC
    RUEHGD/AMCONSUL GUADALAJARA 0114
    RUEHGD/DTS GUADALAJARA
    RUEHHO/AMCONSUL HERMOSILLO 0048
    RUEHHO/DTS HERMOSILLO
    RHMFISS/HQ USNORTHCOM
    RUEHRS/AMCONSUL MATAMOROS 0260
    RUEHRS/DTS MATAMOROS
    RUEHRD/AMCONSUL MERIDA 0275
    RUEHRD/DTS MERIDA
    RUEHMC/AMCONSUL MONTERREY 9135
    RUEHNG/AMCONSUL NOGALES 0012
    RUEHNL/AMCONSUL NUEVO LAREDO 0221
    RUEHNL/DTS NUEVO LAREDO
    RUEHSN/AMEMBASSY SAN SALVADOR 0035
    RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 0006
    RUEHTM/AMCONSUL TIJUANA 0102
    RUEHTM/DTS TIJUANA

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    194998
    2009-03-03 17:19:00
    09MONTERREY100
    Consulate Monterrey
    SECRET//NOFORN

    VZCZCXRO7584
    PP RUEHWEB
    DE RUEHMC #0100/01 0771547
    ZNY SSSSS ZZH
    P R 031719Z MAR 09 ZDS
    FM AMCONSUL MONTERREY
    TO RUEHME/AMEMBASSY MEXICO 4622
    RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3569
    INFO RUEHXC/ALL US CONSULATES IN MEXICO COLLECTIVE
    RUEHCD/AMCONSUL CIUDAD JUAREZ 0070
    RHMFISS/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DC
    RHMFISS/FBI WASHINGTON DC
    RUEHGD/AMCONSUL GUADALAJARA 0114
    RUEHGD/DTS GUADALAJARA
    RUEHHO/AMCONSUL HERMOSILLO 0048
    RUEHHO/DTS HERMOSILLO
    RHMFISS/HQ USNORTHCOM
    RUEHRS/AMCONSUL MATAMOROS 0260
    RUEHRS/DTS MATAMOROS
    RUEHRD/AMCONSUL MERIDA 0275
    RUEHRD/DTS MERIDA
    RUEHMC/AMCONSUL MONTERREY 9135
    RUEHNG/AMCONSUL NOGALES 0012
    RUEHNL/AMCONSUL NUEVO LAREDO 0221
    RUEHNL/DTS NUEVO LAREDO
    RUEHSN/AMEMBASSY SAN SALVADOR 0035
    RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 0006
    RUEHTM/AMCONSUL TIJUANA 0102
    RUEHTM/DTS TIJUANA

    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 MONTERREY 000100

    C O R R E C T E D  C O P Y - Classification

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    PM FOR DTCC FOR BALLARD, DS FOR IP/ITA, WHA FOR MEX AND CEN, EAP
    FOR EAP/K
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL:  3/3/2034
    TAGS: ETTC MASS SNAR PGOV KCRM CASC MX KS
    SUBJECT: MEXICO:  TRACKING NARCO-GRENADES

    CLASSIFIED BY: Bruce Williamson, Principal Offficer, Consul
    General Monterrey, State.
    REASON: 1.4 (a), (b), (d)
    ¶1.  (SBU)   During recent months Mexican narco-traffickers have
    directed a series of grenade attacks directed against, inter
    alia, Mexican law enforcement and military facilities, civilian
    crowds, and U.S. consular installations.  The escalation in the
    strength and power of the weapons used by the narco-traffickers
    has not only cost lives, but has taken its toll in terms of the
    damage done to local civil society.

    ¶2. (S)  AmConsulate General Monterrey's ATF Office, the ATF
    Explosives Technology Branch, and AmEmbassy Mexico DAO have been
    working with Mexican law enforcement authorities to identify the
    origin of various grenades and other explosive devices recovered
    locally over the past few months, including the unexploded M26A2
    fragmentation grenade hurled at the Consulate itself during the
    October 11, 2008 attack.  Other ordnance recovered includes 21
    grenades recovered by Mexican law enforcement on October 16,
    2008 after a raid at a narco-warehouse in Guadalupe (a working
    class suburb of Monterrey), and twenty-five 40mm explosive
    projectiles, a U.S. M203 40mm grenade launcher, and three South
    Korean K400 fragmentation grenades recovered the same day in an
    abandoned armored vehicle that suspected narco-traffickers used
    to escape apprehension.

    ¶3.   (S/NF) Local Mexican law enforcement has recovered a
    Grenade spoon and pull ring from an exploded hand grenade used
    in a January 6, 2009 attack on Televisa Monterrey, a Monterrey
    television station.  Based upon ATF examination, it appears that
    the grenade used in the attack on the Consulate has the same lot
    number, and is of similar design and style, as the three of the
    grenades found at the narco-warehouse in Guadalupe.  On January
    7, 2009, the Mexican Army recovered 14 M-67 fragmentation
    grenades and 1 K400 fragmentation grenade in Durango City,
    Durango.  Finally and perhaps most disturbing, on January 31,
    2009 three men tossed a K-75 grenade into a night club near
    Pharr, Texas -- an East Texas border town --but the grenade did
    not explode.  The attackers may have been targeting three
    off-duty police officers who were in the club at the time.

    ¶4.   (S) The lot numbers of some of the grenades recovered,
    including the grenade used in the attack on Televisa, indicate
    that previously ordnance with these same lot numbers may have
    been sold by the USG to the El Salvadoran military in the early
    1990s via the Foreign Military Sales program.  We would like to
    thank AmEmbassy San Salvador for its ongoing efforts to query
    the Government of El Salvador as whether any of its stocks of
    grenades and other munitions have been diverted or are otherwise
    unaccounted for.

    ¶5.   (SBU)  AmConsulate Monterrey requests that Department
    instruct AmEmbassy Seoul to discreetly query the Korean
    government regarding the whereabouts, disposition, and the
    possibility of any missing stocks of South Korean-made:

    ---  40mm High Explosives Cartridges K200, with Lot numbers
    HWB95L615-012; HWB95L615-014; EC-87E615-061;  EC-88G615-071,
    EC-84D610-096, EC-83H615-012, and EC-83H815-012.

    ---  K400 Fragmentation Grenades, with Lot numbers
    EC-89E605-063, HEB96H605-033, HWB96H605-033, HWB96H-609-003,
    KG94DK400002-017, KG94D002-017, HWB89S605-063, ME183D, and
    HWB95K605-029.

    ---  K402 Fragmentation Grenades, with Lot numbers HWB96H605-063
    and HWB96H605-033.

    MONTERREY 00000100  002 OF 002

    --- K75 Fragmentation Grenade, with Lot numbers EC-85E605-031
    and EC89E605-073.

    ¶6.   (SBU)  Any information as to the destination of this
    ordnance and to whom it may have been sold would be most
    appreciated.  This information will be used in an U.S. ongoing
    criminal investigation.
    WILLIAMSON

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