Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 01:10.
Citing sources in Léon, El Universál July 3 named the man of "English origin" in the video as "Jerry Wilson." In a July 7 report for Narco News, Kristin Bricker identifies the "Wilson" as an employee of Risks Incorporated of Miami. Bricker compares the torture video with a Risks Incorporated promotional video on the company's website, and concludes they were both filmed at the same site and day. Both show the apparent "Wilson"—in shades, jeans and black t-shirt—directing a bunch of guys in fatigues. Bricker writes:
Risks Incorporated's website does not list a "Jerry Wilson" on its "Our Personnel" page. However, the British man known as "Jerry Wilson" may be Risks Incorporated's "Orlando," who is listed as the company's "Chief Specialist Tactical Instructor & Operator." A January 17, 2006, version of Risks Incorporated's website archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine lists an Andrew Wilson as the company's "Chief Consultant."
Bricker thinks she's identified another figure in the training as linked to Risks Incorporated:
Mexican authorities and media identified the second man responsible for the León torture trainings as Gerardo Arrechea, a Cuban-Mexican martial arts champion and soap opera stunt man who runs the Free Fight Academy with trainings available in Mexico state, Puebla, Morelos, and Chiapas. Free Fight Academy's website, which was removed from the internet after the torture training video scandal broke, bragged that, amongst other achievements, Arrechea is a third-degree black belt in Doce Pares Eskrima (a martial art focused on fighting with sticks), 1996 Eskrima Filipino WEKAF champion of Mexico, and 1999 May Thai (kickboxing) Association champion of Mexico.
Risks Incorporated's website does not list a "Gerardo" on its staff biography page, but it does list a "Jerry," which is an anglicized nickname for "Gerardo." Jerry's Risks Incorporated biography states that he is located in Mexico City where he is the director of a martial arts academy in the Mexico City metropolitan area. It goes on to say that he has a fourth-degree black belt in Doce Pares Eskrima, and, like Arrechea, was the 1996 "Heavyweight Stickfighting Champion of Mexico" and the "1999 Thai Boxing Association of Mexico Heavy Weight Champion."
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Together, Arrechea and Wilson make up part of the Risks Incorporated team. Risks Incorporated provides its clients "with cutting edge and real world tactical firearms training, counter insurgency / SWAT training, executive protection services, kidnap and ransom services that fulfill their requirements and fit in with their lifestyles." It offers special courses only available to government agencies. According to Risks Incorporated's site, "Our specialist tactical police training courses are for agencies that have to deal with the threat of narco terroism [sic], counter insurgency and para-military groups. Risks Inc.'s tactical instructors are predominantly former military personnel with operational experience in counter insurgency and low intensity warfare in both urban and rural environments.... Students can expect to experience sleep deprivation and stress training."
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
WW4 Report pamphlets
WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
An Historical Guide Through the Balkan Labyrinth
The Balkan region is intensely multicultural—a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers—from the Roman empire to NATO.
WW4 Report pamphlets
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK:
LEGACY OF REBELLION
A Century and a Half of Protest & Resistance on New York's Lower East Side
A concise chronicle of the Tompkins Square riots of 1857, 1863 (Civil War draft riots), 1874, 1877 (national railroad strike), 1967 (hippies fight back) and 1988 (anarchists versus police state)—and how the battles over one small park in lower Manhattan have been a microcosm of the class and social struggles that have shaped America and the world.
Risks Incorporated behind Mexico torture training?
Citing sources in Léon, El Universál July 3 named the man of "English origin" in the video as "Jerry Wilson." In a July 7 report for Narco News, Kristin Bricker identifies the "Wilson" as an employee of Risks Incorporated of Miami. Bricker compares the torture video with a Risks Incorporated promotional video on the company's website, and concludes they were both filmed at the same site and day. Both show the apparent "Wilson"—in shades, jeans and black t-shirt—directing a bunch of guys in fatigues. Bricker writes:
Bricker thinks she's identified another figure in the training as linked to Risks Incorporated: