Mexican Drug Cartels Resort to Jihadist Terror Methodology by Using More Car Bombings

As the savage, largely narco-fueled violence in Mexico escalates, the country’s crime-cartels have resorted to using one of jihadist terrorists’ most lethal weapons – the car bomb.

But while there had been a lull in the cartels’ use of “vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices” (VBIED) since a wave of detonations of these lethal bombs last summer, on the heels of Mexico’s crackdown on the Los Zetas cartel in recent weeks, Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) announced that a car bomb was exploded Tuesday afternoon in front of a muni-police station in Linares, Nuevo León, Mexico.

The car was a white Jetta from Nuevo León and had been parked in the reserved parking space of a high ranking police department official.

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