Report: FBI Heads to Oaxaca to ‘Invesitgate’ Brad Will’s Murder
November 19, 2006 01:32AM EST
Report: FBI Heads to Oaxaca to ‘Invesitgate’ Brad Will’s Murder
11/19 | Following death of NYC journalist, Disinformation Swirls: Oaxacan State Government Pushes Back in Information War.
WW4 Report [en]: Oaxaca prosecutor: APPO killed Brad Will. Currently the best short roundup of what PRI appointed Prosecutor General Lizbeth Caña Cadeza said at her press conference. Cadeza claims that there is "growing evidence that Indymedia cameraman Bradley Will was killed at point-blank range by supporters of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) as a "deceitful confabulation" to "internationalize the conflict" in the state." Links to …
E-Oaxaca.net [es]: La muerte de Bradley Will fue “confabulación” de la APPO, dictamina PGJE. PPO leader Flavio Sosa Villavicencio said his organization will "name a commission" to launch its own investigation into the murder.
Lo Ultimo [es]: FBI investigará asesinato de Bradley Will.The FBI is sending its own team to Oaxaca to investigate the slaying. Confirmed today by the …
Houston Chronicle [en]: U.S. wants probe of journalist’s killing in Mexico. Consistantly the best mainstream US coverage of this story provided by the Chron. "In the wake of prosecutors’ allegations that leftist activists killed American journalist Brad Will in southern Oaxaca state last month, U.S. officials are pushing for a full investigation. "We are awaiting results of the investigation and we have made it known that we expect the investigation to be rigorous," a U.S. official with knowledge of the case said Friday, on the condition of anonymity." Notice how the FBI didn’t seem to care– at least on record– until Cadeza said it was APPO who did it.
Mark in Mexico [en]: Oaxaca, Mexico: Bradley Will, American reporter, shot from above at close range then executed at point blank range 15 minutes later. Quite possibly a CIA asset in Oaxaca, MiM is the best place to go for the Ruiz government’s line about what occured in Oaxaca.
Carlos Vigueras [es]: Brad Will : Drowning vineat the Devil wings. Meanwhile, on the other side, Vigueras quotes the testimony from Dr. Guillermo Ruiz Avelino who he claims (as best I can tell not speaking Spanish) was that Will "died in his arms" and that "he had one gunshot wound, not two," at the time he saw him.
Indybay has a major report [en]. "I have heard some important and strange facts about the ‘investigation’ into Brad’s death: The US Consul was not present at the autopsy, and human rights observers were not permitted to film the autopsy. Brad himself had filmed the autopsies of two murdered APPO sympathizers in the week before his own death. The two bullets extracted from his body (initially reported to be AR-15 bullets) were turned over to the state. The autopsy doctor said that the first shot killed Brad, that he was shot from the front in the center of his chest and that the bullet severed his aorta and lodged in his spine. The government hired a specialist who followed up the initial autopsy by refuting its claims. Bradley’s body had already been cremated when this second expert opinion surfaced, claiming that the second shot came fifteen minutes later, delivered by the men who tried to bring him to a hospital or clinic before he died … oday’s daily paper ‘Noticias’ has an article about the contradictions between the autopsy report and the PGJE’s specialists, highlighting the fact the the second bullet wound can be seen in several photos published in the Excelsior magazine before Brad was moved from the scene."
Finally, on 11/02, Josh Breitbart and Mike Burke posted the best roundup of how Indymedia understood the story at the time (early Nov.).
Obviously, a disinformation war is in full effect. Sadly, its hard to believe that anyone– the FBI, the federal Mexican Government, the state government of Oaxaca– can be trusted to honestly get to the bottom of what really happened .
As always, translation of the Spanish articles linked here much appreciated.
E-Oaxaca.net [es]: La muerte de Bradley Will fue “confabulación” de la APPO, dictamina PGJE. PPO leader Flavio Sosa Villavicencio said his organization will "name a commission" to launch its own investigation into the murder.
Lo Ultimo [es]: FBI investigará asesinato de Bradley Will.The FBI is sending its own team to Oaxaca to investigate the slaying. Confirmed today by the …
Houston Chronicle [en]: U.S. wants probe of journalist’s killing in Mexico. Consistantly the best mainstream US coverage of this story provided by the Chron. "In the wake of prosecutors’ allegations that leftist activists killed American journalist Brad Will in southern Oaxaca state last month, U.S. officials are pushing for a full investigation. "We are awaiting results of the investigation and we have made it known that we expect the investigation to be rigorous," a U.S. official with knowledge of the case said Friday, on the condition of anonymity." Notice how the FBI didn’t seem to care– at least on record– until Cadeza said it was APPO who did it.
Mark in Mexico [en]: Oaxaca, Mexico: Bradley Will, American reporter, shot from above at close range then executed at point blank range 15 minutes later. Quite possibly a CIA asset in Oaxaca, MiM is the best place to go for the Ruiz government’s line about what occured in Oaxaca.
Carlos Vigueras [es]: Brad Will : Drowning vineat the Devil wings. Meanwhile, on the other side, Vigueras quotes the testimony from Dr. Guillermo Ruiz Avelino who he claims (as best I can tell not speaking Spanish) was that Will "died in his arms" and that "he had one gunshot wound, not two," at the time he saw him.
Indybay has a major report [en]. "I have heard some important and strange facts about the ‘investigation’ into Brad’s death: The US Consul was not present at the autopsy, and human rights observers were not permitted to film the autopsy. Brad himself had filmed the autopsies of two murdered APPO sympathizers in the week before his own death. The two bullets extracted from his body (initially reported to be AR-15 bullets) were turned over to the state. The autopsy doctor said that the first shot killed Brad, that he was shot from the front in the center of his chest and that the bullet severed his aorta and lodged in his spine. The government hired a specialist who followed up the initial autopsy by refuting its claims. Bradley’s body had already been cremated when this second expert opinion surfaced, claiming that the second shot came fifteen minutes later, delivered by the men who tried to bring him to a hospital or clinic before he died … oday’s daily paper ‘Noticias’ has an article about the contradictions between the autopsy report and the PGJE’s specialists, highlighting the fact the the second bullet wound can be seen in several photos published in the Excelsior magazine before Brad was moved from the scene."
Finally, on 11/02, Josh Breitbart and Mike Burke posted the best roundup of how Indymedia understood the story at the time (early Nov.).
Obviously, a disinformation war is in full effect. Sadly, its hard to believe that anyone– the FBI, the federal Mexican Government, the state government of Oaxaca– can be trusted to honestly get to the bottom of what really happened .
As always, translation of the Spanish articles linked here much appreciated.
