Whack-a-mole: Mexican request for U.S. help in drug war detailed

More Wikileaks: Those moles are damn hard to whack!

Mexican request for U.S. help in drug war detailed: "MEXICO CITY - The leader of the Mexican military told U.S. authorities last year that the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel moves among 10 to 15 known locations but that capturing Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was 'difficult' because the most wanted man in Mexico surrounds himself with hundreds of armed men and a sophisticated web of snitches, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.

Mexico's defense secretary, Gen. Guillermo Galvan, told Adm. Dennis C. Blair, then the Obama administration's director of national intelligence, that the Mexican army was implementing plans to capture Guzman but that 'Chapo commands the support of a large network of informers and has security circles of up to 300 men that make launching capture operations difficult,' according to a report sent by U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual on Oct 26, 2009, and released by WikiLeaks to news organizations.

Guzman is the boss of Mexico's dominant trafficking organization and an almost legendary drug lord here - the subject of books and songs, a billionaire mastermind who escaped from a Mexican federal prison, reportedly in a laundry basket." Dec. 27, 2010