Fired State Police Chief Mexico

18 April 2011 last updated at 00: 51 GMT of the Mexican navy captured the alleged mastermind of the murders on Saturday in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas has the head of security after the discovery of 145 bodies in mass graves earlier this month dismissed.

Former Army Gen Ubaldo Ayala Tinoco was from another former soldier, Capt. Rafael Lomeli Martinez replaced.

The Governor said the new Chief coordination with the army and the federal police in the fight against drugs gangs would improve.

The killings have been blamed Zetas drug cartel on that.

More than 20 suspected cartel members in connection with the murders, including the alleged mastermind of the massacre have been arrested.

But the suspected to protect the criminals 16 State police officers were arrested.

Battlefield

Outgoing Tamaulipas said security chief gene Ayala he resigned was because the Government had to provide for higher wages and better facilities, the State police.

His successor, Capt. Lomeli, was previously head of the federal police in Nuevo Leon, a different northern border State where drug-related violence widely used is.

He said he was pacifying Tamaulipas, which is the scene of a bloody battle between the Zetas and the rival Gulf cartel, in the United States for the control of drug trafficking routes are required.

The mass graves with 145 bodies were found in the municipality of San Fernando, near the US border.

Most of the victims are thought to of long-distance buses travel north to the U.S. border be been kidnapped.

The motive for the murders is unclear, but some have speculated that the cartel armed men could have killed, who refused to join their ranks.

Last year, the bodies were found by 72 of Central and South American immigrants in the same area.

Mastermind

On Saturday, the captured Mexican marine Omar Martin Estrada - alias "El kilo"-the alleged leader of the Zetas in San Fernando and alleged mastermind of the murders.

Forensic scientists have worked to identify the body, have been taken by some to Mexico City.

Hundreds of people, their loved ones have disappeared, gone to see if they can identify their family members among the dead.

The Mexican Government says that since President Felipe Calderon began sending troops against the cartels in the December 2006 about 35,000 people in drug-related violence have been killed.

More than 5,000 people reported missing, according to human rights Commission of Mexico.

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Bomber kills Afghan police Chief

15 April 2011 last updated at 18: 14 GMT Khan Mohammad Mujahid has survived previous attempts on his life which police chief died in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar in a suicide attack on his headquarters had.

Khan Mohammad Mujahid was killed and two other policemen injured in the explosion, officials say.

A suicide bomber managed penetrate the defence of the General Headquarters of police by wearing a police uniform, said the Afghan Ministry of the Interior.

Mr Khan survived previous attempts on his life. The police HQ has taken in the past in the line of fire.

"The suicide attacker had strapped explosives to his body" Deputy chief Shir Shah said told AFP.

"He fired at the gates of the Kandahar police headquarters." "Police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid has tortured have been, [and] two police officers were injured."

Taliban spokesman Yusuf Ahmadi said one of its members carried out the attack, and gave AFP a slightly different account of the events.

"He had disguised himself as a police officer and the police fired head with his pistol, embraced him and then ignited themselves," he said.

The police headquarters in Kandahar became the target of several attacks in the past, which had forced the authorities security arrangements around the facility recently BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul reports check.

Continue reading the most important story Bilal Sarwary BBC News, Kabul

Mr Khan is the most recent victim of an assassination campaign launched by the rebels in recent months.

It has the life of bodies, officials, Governors, police chiefs and works for the National Directorate of security intelligence activists cost.

Most of the victims had a reputation for efficiency in the Administration, and were by their juniors up to saw.

Afghan security and intelligence officials say that the Taliban has several of his commanders in the last raids of the United States carried out lost and Afghan special forces.

This has the Taliban ability to lay ambush crippled or security forces on the battlefield.

It is Afghan officials in the conflict remain relevant targeted.

Khan Mohammad Mujahid had two previous attempts at his life, one on his way home and survived in his motorcade.

Mr Khan was a former mujahideen against the Soviets in the 1980s and then fought the Taliban. He was a powerful militia commander in Ahmad Shah Masoud Northern Alliance battles.

After the fall of the Taliban, Mr Khan worked for the Ministry of defence. He was appointed the police Chief of Balch, Ghazni, and finally the head of the police in his home province of Kandahar soon.

President Hamid Karzai, he had promoted the rank of Lieutenant General.

Our correspondent says a personal loss for the Afghan President, that the killing of an older important tribal and ally, Malik is already Empress, in the eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, mourning his death.

Kandahar is considered the spiritual home of the Taliban, and has experienced in recent years some of the worst of the violence in Afghanistan.

Attacks on Afghan police and troops have increased recently, when the Taliban tried, efforts prepare local police forces, to take over the full security control, as soon as security force leaves undermine NATO.

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Cathedral funeral for truck chief

9 April 2011, last updated: 12: 46 GMT three of the distinctive Eddie Stobart vehicles were part of grieving in Carlisle to adopt, the former head of Eddie Stobart haulage giant collected event.

Edward Stobart, 56, died on the 31 March after suffering heart problems.

He took over his father's company in 1976 and built it up to one of the most well-known transport companies in the world.

The streets around Carlisle fed Cathedral approximately 200 people and green, white and Red truck parked three of the company's distinctive outside.

The service started at 1100 BST and industry took about 500 family, friends and colleagues.

The ceremony was broadcast on a big screen outside the Cathedral.

It was a space for floral tribute outside, including one looked like a truck of Eddie Stobart.

'Absolute Gentleman'

Mr. of Stobart's were among the family father, Eddie, and his wife Nora, during the ceremony.

Before the service, called Stobart, it can talk Group Deputy Chief Executive Richard butcher as "a true legend in the truck industry".

He said: "he will be remembered by a lot of people in the industry."

"I worked with him for a number of years and he was an absolute gentleman." A very large, a very kind man. A very shy man in many respects.

Links outside the Cathedral was a truck-shaped floral tribute among those

"He called the best of all, that with him but he had worked for those with him during his time at the business worked faithfully."

Rebecca Ferguson, the X Factor finalist from Liverpool, sang amazing grace to the service.

After the service, three Eddie Stobart trucks from the 1970's led 1980s and the present of the hearse from a private funeral.

Converting the Cumbrian small business started by his father, who had only eight trucks and 12 employees, when he took over Mr Stobart, father of six lived in Warwickshire with his wife Mandy, attributed to.

2001 On 1,000 trucks and 2,000 employees from 27 sites had increased.

Mr Stobart was managing director for more than 30 years.

The company had even a "fan club", which attracted 25,000 members at its peak.

The brand Stobart stretched, also to a children cartoon character, a paint color - green Eddie Stobart and toy truck.

Edward sold the business to his brother William and business partner Andrew Tinkler in the year 2004.

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