Mexico City Bombing

Feb. 15, mid-afternoon an explosive device detonated in a vacant lot near the Mexico City Police (SSP-DF) headquarters (at the corner of Avenida de Chapultepec and Calle Monterrey). Details have filled newspapers for days (as they should).

A New York Times article has these two important paragraphs:

A bomb that exploded Friday near the Mexico City police headquarters was carried by an unidentified man wearing two layers of clothing, the police said Saturday. They said that the man died in the blast and that no evidence had yet been found linking him to a guerrilla group or a drug cartel.

Late Friday, the Federal attorney general 3/5minute 4/5s office issued a statement saying the bombing ''cannot be attributed to armed or subversive groups'' because the device bore none of the earmarks of those that subversive groups have planted on pipelines and in a Mexico City skyscraper in the past year.