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Secret Documents Released on US/Mexico Military Plan Mexico

Secret Documents Released

Murdered Journalist Network Denounces Military Reward for Impunity
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**************Immediate Release March 21, 2008**************

Secret Documents Released

Murdered Journalist Network Denounces Military Reward for Impunity

Contacts:

friendsofbradwill.org

The international network demanding accountability for the murder of
US journalist Brad Will released secret documents detailing proposed
military support for Mexican security forces implicated in murder,
torture and continuing arbitrary detentions.

"Finally we were able to obtain these documents, which even Members of
Congress have yet to see. We hope that by releasing them to the
public we will be able to better make our case for withholding
hundreds of millions of dollars in military subsidies to the Mexican
military. The murderers of Brad and many others in Oaxaca and Atenco
and Chiapas must be brought to justice if U.S. support for human
rights is to mean anything." said Harry Bubbins, of Friends of Brad
Will. Over 70% of the proposed $1.5 billion would entail lethal aid
analysts revealed.

Friends of Brad Will is with a widespread coalition of labor and human
rights advocates urging House Speaker Pelosi and Eliot Engels, the
Chair of the Western Hemispheric affairs subcommittee to oppose U.S.
support for Mexican military and police forces. Mr. Will, the 36 year
old reporter, was murdered in Oaxaca, Mexico on October 27th, 2006.
Witnesses and photographic evidence implicate members of the Mexican
government, including a police chief in his death that day.

President Bush announced a $1.5 billion dollar "security cooperation
initiative" proposal for Mexico that the President is trying to bury
into the Iraq supplemental spending package submitted to Congress. The
initiative allows sharing of U.S. military intelligence information
with Mexican military counterparts and provides weaponry and training
with the notoriously corrupt and brutal Mexican military and police.

Brad Will's family and friends denounced plans to fund a "Plan Mexico"
that would be more costly than the controversial "Plan Colombia". They
pointed to the lack of any credible investigation into the murder of
the U.S. journalist, who was in Mexico
covering the protests of a popular movement of teachers and their
supporters facing paramilitary violence deployed by the Mexican
government and the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz.

"We are confident that Congress will not just rubber stamp this
ill-advised military aid package in Bush's waning days that would lead
to further human rights abuses for decades to come." stated Robert
Jereski, a Congressional liaison for Friends of Brad Will.

SECRET DOCUMENTS AT:

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PARTIAL HELICOPTER OUTLAYS PROPOSED:

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