Drug Cartel Splits With Leader Over Bombing
BOGOTA, Colombia — Associates of Medellin drug kingpin Pablo Escobar issued a statement today condemning their leader for last week’s deadly bomb attack, indicating a split in the powerful drug cartel.
The communique, sent to Bogota newspapers and signed by the cartel hit squad known as the Extraditables, claimed Escobar did not consult his drug trafficking allies before the bombing. On Wednesday, cartel operatives blasted a police convoy south of Medellin with a car packed with 400 pounds of dynamite, killing 22 people and wounding almost 85.
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