Mexican drug cartel arrests

The Mexican Army arrested a drug trafficker for organizing an attack on a U.S. consulate and killing several soldiers in retaliation for a government crackdown, Mexico's president Felipe Calderon said Friday.

Gulf cartel hit man Sigifrido Najera Talamantes was captured in the northern city of Saltillo, Coahuila early Friday.

Najera Talamantes organized the Oct. 12 attack in which one man opened fire on the U.S. consulate in the northern city of Monterrey and another man threw a grenade that failed to explode. Nobody was hurt.

He was also involved in a similar gunfire and grenade attack Jan. 7 on the offices of the Televisa television network's station in Monterrey.

President Calderon says Najera Talamantes "was directly responsible for the torture and execution of soldiers" - a reference to the killings of nine soldiers whose bodies were found in Monterrey in late October, in retaliation for the army's participation in drug busts. CBS News

Mexican drug war

D. Brian Blackwell