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ByE.EduardoCastillo The Associated Press MEXICO CITY The world's most-wanted drug lord was recaptured in a dar- ing raid by Mexican ma- rines Friday, six months af- ter he fled through a tunnel from a maximum security prison in a made-for-Hol- lywood escape that deeply embarrassed the govern- ment and strained ties with the United States. Mexican President En- rique Pena Nieto an- nounced the capture of Joa- quin "El Chapo" Guzman using his Twitter account: "Mission accomplished: we have him." Few had thought Guz- man would be taken alive, and few now believe Mex- ico will want to try to hold him a third time in Mexican prisons. He escaped from maximum-security facili- ties in 2001 and on July 11, 2015, the second breakout especially humiliating for the Pena Nieto administra- tion, which only held him for less than 18 months. The capture had top Mexican officials at a For- eign Ministry event glee- fully embracing and break- ing into a spontaneous rendition of the national anthem after Interior Sec- retary Miguel Osorio Chong delivered the news. No sooner than Guzman was apprehended, calls started for his immediate extradition to the U.S., in- cluding from a Republi- can presidential candidate, Florida Sen. Mark Rubio. "Given that 'El Chapo' has already escaped from Mexican prison twice, this third opportunity to bring him to justice cannot be squandered," Rubio said. The United States filed requests for extradition for Guzman on June 25, before he escaped from prison. In September, a judge issued a second provisional arrest warrant on U.S. charges of organized crime, money laundering drug trafficking, homicide and others. But Guzman's lawyers already filed appeals and received injunctions that could sub- stantially delay the process. Mexico said after the 2014 capture of the cartel boss that he would be tried in his home country first, with officials promising they would hang on to him. After his escape in July, the talk on Friday about keep- ing and trying Guzman al- most as a matter of national pride wasn't so overt. "It would be better for the Americans to take him away," said Mexican secu- rity analysis Raul Benitez. Pena Nieto said he per- sonally issued the order to recapture Guzman and heaped praise on Mexican agencies for their coordi- nated effort. "Careful and intensive intelligence work was carried out for months" leading up to the arrest, he said. Pena Nieto gave a brief live message Friday after- noon that focused heav- ily on touting the compe- tency of his administration, which has suffered a series of embarrassments and scandals in the first half of his presidency. "The arrest of today is very important for the government of Mexico. It shows that the public can have confidence in its insti- tutions," Pena Nieto said. "Mexicans can count on a government decided and determined to build a bet- ter country." Guzman, a legendary figure in Mexico who went from a farmer's son to the world's top drug lord, was apprehended after a shoot- out between gunmen and Mexican marines at a home in an upscale neighborhood in Los Mochis, a seaside city in Guzman's home state of Sinaloa. Authorities first located Guzman several days ago, based on reports that he was in Los Mochis, said a Mexican law enforcement official who was not autho- rized to be quoted by name said. The Mexican Navy said in a statement that ma- rines raided a home af- ter receiving a tip about armed men there. They were fired on from inside the struc- ture, it said. Five sus- pects were killed and six others arrested. The ma- rine's injuries were not life threatening. "You could hear intense gunfire and a helicopter; it was fierce," said a neigh- bor, adding that the battle raged for three hours, start- ing at 4 a.m. She refused to be quoted by name in fear for her own safety. Guzman may have been at the house and fled while his gunmen and body- guards provided covering fire from the house, said a second federal law en- forcement official, who also agreed to discuss the oper- ation on condition of ano- nymity. Guzman was later captured at the hotel Doux, a low-rise modern building on the outskirts of town. Some reports said he tried to escape through storm drains. In 2014, Guz- man evaded capture by flee- ing through a network of in- terconnected tunnels in the drainage system under Cu- liacan, the Sinaloa state capital. Marines seized two ar- mored vehicles, eight rifles, one handgun and a rocket- propelled grenade launcher at the home in Los Mochis, the navy's statement added. After his first capture in Guatemala in June 1993, Guzman was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He re- portedly made his 2001 es- cape from the maximum se- curity prison in a laundry cart, though some have dis- counted that version. His second escape last July was even more auda- cious. He slipped down a hole in his shower stall in plain view of guards into a mile-long tunnel dug from a property outside the prison. The tunnel had ventilation, lights and a motorbike on rails, illustrating the extent to which corruption was in- volved in covering up the elaborate operation. Noise of the final breakthrough from the tunnel was obvi- ous inside the prison, ac- cording a video of Guzman in his cell just before he es- caped. Mexico launched a huge manhunt and a couple of months later tracked him to the mountains of his home state, arresting a pilot who allegedly flew Guzman to the region hours after his escape. Guzman was said to have narrowly escaped an earlier capture and injured a leg and his face while flee- ing marines in the rugged terrain. RAID BY MARINES Mexicoclaimsdruglord'ElChapo'Guzmanrecaptured REBECCABLACKWELL—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, flanked by Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, le , and National Defense Secretary Slavador Cienfuegos Zepeda, thanks members of his government and security forces, during a press conference following the capture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Mexico City, on Friday. Guzman The Associated Press CAIRO An Islamic State affiliate in eastern Libya claimed responsibility for a suicide truck bomb attack targeting a police base in the town of Zliten that au- thorities said killed at least 60 policemen and wounded around 200. In a statement posted on the Twitter accounts of IS sympathizers several hours after Thursday's attack, the group calling itself the IS Barqa Province said it was carried out by Abu al-Abbas al-Muhajir, who detonated his explosive-laden truck among the Libyan border police at the base. The last name, al-Muha- jir, implies that the attacker was not Libyan. Earlier on Thursday, the IS-affiliated Aamaq News Agency also claimed the attack was carried out by the extremist group's Barqa Province affiliate. The U.N. Security Coun- cil late Friday strongly con- demned "the terrorist at- tack" in Zliten. It also con- demned recent attacks on Libya's oil infrastructure by a group claiming alle- giance to IS. Libya slid into chaos fol- lowing the 2011 toppling and killing of longtime dic- tator Moammar Gadhafi. The oil-rich country is torn between an Islamist gov- ernment based in the cap- ital, Tripoli, and a rival, in- ternationally recognized administration in the east. 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