god certainly does love committing MURDER, doesn't he?


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/21/helicopter.missing.ap/index.html

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A helicopter carrying the Cabinet minister in charge
of Mexico's federal police, his deputy and seven others crashed amid thick
clouds outside Mexico City on Wednesday, and there were no survivors, the
president said.

The Bell helicopter was carrying Public Safety Secretary Ramon Martin
Huerta -- whose ministry heads the federal police -- Federal Preventive
Police Chief Tomas Valencia, five other passengers and a crew of two.

It had taken off from a military parade ground in Mexico City and was
headed to an event at the maximum-security La Palma prison, 35 miles west
of Mexico City, when it was crashied in dense clouds.

"They all died in the line of duty," President Vicente Fox said in a
televised address.

The flight was on its way to a swearing-in ceremony for prison guards, the
culmination of an effort to purge corrupt officials from a prison holding
notorious Mexican drug gang leaders.

The prison was cordoned off earlier this year by federal troops after
investigators found evidence that reputed drug lords Osiel Cardenas and
Benjamin Arellano Felix had joined forces and were operating their
networks from behind bars.

Fox created the Public Safety Department after taking office in 2000,
combining federal police forces overseeing prisons, highways and
borders -- including the Federal Preventative Police.

A trusted Fox ally, Huerta was appointed to lead the agency in August 2004
after the previous secretary, Alejandro Gertz Manero, resigned to return
to private life.

Valencia had been promoted to his police chief post, answering to Huerta,
in January after his predecessor was fired for his role in the botched
response to an attack by a mob in Mexico City that left two federal agents
dead.

Huerta was Fox's campaign director when Fox ran for governor of the
central Mexican state of Guanajuato, and served as interior secretary
after Fox's election in 1995. When Fox became president, Huerta took over
as interim governor of Guanajuato.

Huerta, who has a degree in business administration, worked as a college
professor and was an activist in Fox's conservative National Action Party
before he launched his government career.