Hitmen assassinate a top Mexican policeman

Time for the US to help with direct police and military action yet?

Hitmen assassinate a top Mexican policeman | International | Reuters: "Hired hitmen, one wielding a pistol with a silencer, shot dead one of Mexico's top federal police officers at his home on Thursday, in a blow to President Felipe Calderon's fight against drug cartels.

Three gunmen waited for regional commissioner Edgar Millan at his house in the capital and shot him nine times as he came home early in the morning and opened the door, government officials said.

'They were hunting him,' a spokesman for the Security Ministry said.

Mexican media said the attackers, one of whom was caught by Millan's bodyguards, were professional killers hired by the powerful Sinaloa cartel, headed by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin 'Shorty' Guzman. The man arrested had two pistols, one with a silencer, and was wearing a latex glove."