Mexico Captures "Drug Lord" Accused Of U.S. Attack -- Yahoo News/ReutersMEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Soldiers on Friday captured a man Mexico calls a drug kingpin who is accused of attacking a U.S. consulate and killing nine soldiers, in the second major arrest this week in the country's drug war.
President Felipe Calderon said soldiers seized Sigifredo Najera, a leader of the ruthless Gulf cartel, in the northern city of Saltillo near Texas.
"He is directly responsible for the torture and killing of the soldiers, the attacks on the U.S. consulate and Televisa (TV broadcaster) in Monterrey," Calderon said in a speech in the Mexican capital.
Mexico is facing brutal violence between rival drug gangs and the army in a battle that killed 6,300 people last year.
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