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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; Mexican drug traffickers' first car-bomb attack against police has revealed a new level of cold-blooded planning that is forcing this border city and security forces to change the way they confront violence.
Police said Friday that La Linea drug gang [HTML_REMOVED]#8212; the same group blamed for the March killing of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband [HTML_REMOVED]#8212; lured federal officers and paramedics to the site of a car bomb by dressing a bound, wounded man in a police uniform and calling in a false report of an officer shot.
The gang then exploded a car holding as much as 22 pounds (10 kilograms) of explosives, killing the decoy, a rescue worker and a federal officer. A regional military commander said a cell phone might have been used to detonate the bomb.
The gang promised to strike again, with graffiti painted on the wall of a Ciudad Juarez shopping center. "What happened … is going to keep happening against all the authorities," the message read. "We have more car bombs."
Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said city authorities "will have to change the way we operate. We've started changing all our protocols, to include bomb situations."
He fears such attacks could hit the morale of his already overworked police force.
"Having attacks, direct attacks, on the police department creates the possibility of police just retiring or quitting," he said.
Reyes Ferriz said at least 14 police officers or other law enforcement officials have been killed in the last few weeks in and around the city. The city has a police department of about 2,800 officers.
They are backed up by as many as 5,000 federal police, one of whom died in the Thursday car-bombing. The security equation has shifted for them too.
Civilian Ciudad Juarez residents also were emotionally shaken by the bombing, which scattered debris over a 300-yard (300-meter) radius and blew out the windows of a nearby home.
Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world, with more than 4,000 people killed since the beginning of 2009.