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November 10, 2009

Here comes Fox’s Lt. Col. Ralph ‘Bob’ Peters to call it terrorism: “It’s clear that the problem is Islam”

Filed under: I hate you, controversy, fox, horror, race, religion — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 7:15 pm

This guy is a thoroughly rancid talking head who Fox trots out to throw around nasty shit. See here and here and here and here.



It’s too early to say what the massacre at Foot Hood was–we just don’t have enough reliable information about the mass murderer, Hasan, and his thoughts and motives to say what his intentions were. But, generally, a terrorist act is a small part of a large overall plan. Terrorism usually has large political aims, and a single act doesn’t likely change anything, including even the perpetrator’s goals, if he survives.

If Hasan acted out of extreme emotional stress without any thought as to what his actions meant in a larger context, then I don’t see how you call that ‘terrorism.’ The facts that he was being deployed, was adamantly opposed to it and was increasingly distressed as the date approached probably point in the opposite direction, but we’ll see. Because of the great symbolism attached to terrorists’ acts, the dates they choose to attack are not generally random.

This, for example, is clearly terrorism.

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Pat Robertson: Islam is not a religion, adherents need to be singled out as fascists

Filed under: I hate you, controversy, horror, race, religion — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 11:30 am

Don’t worry, I’m sure the Muslim-bashing has only begun. This is one of the most pure-hate screeds I’ve ever heard, but then we’ve been waiting for this bigotry Hall of Famer to speak up. He doesn’t disappoint.




“…but if we don’t stop covering up what Islam is…Islam is a violent…I wouldn’t consider it a religion, but it’s not a religion, it’s a political system. It’s a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and the, and world domination. That is the ultimate aim. And they talk about infidels and all this, but the truth is that’s what the game is. So you are dealing with a, not a religion. You’re dealing with a political system. And I think we should treat it as such and treat its adherents as such as we would members of the Communist Party or members of some fascist group…”

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Right-wing hackery over Ft. Hood tragedy and P.C. continues: David Warren says “…we must not shed crocodile tears.”

Filed under: controversy, horror, race, religion — Tags: , , , , , , , , — toma @ 10:30 am

*sigh*

I really wish they’d get past the formality of pretending to be cool-headed and sober and get to settling in with wild-eyed hysteria. These ‘intellectuals’ are annoying.

Fort Hood: Let’s Drop the Political Correctness
By David Warren

For a person with old-fashioned values, and an old-fashioned sense of English word meanings, the reports of the Fort Hood massacre were almost as provoking as what happened there.

With Warren’s surprising post-modern sense of Aramaic word meanings, if he’d been reading those reports of the massacre, we would have been deprived of this post. Lucky us. Here’s an English word that’s old enough: provocative.

In the larger view of things, they may be more consequential.

Let me make that latter point plain. I am saying the words and attitudes conveyed in the reporting of a massacre can be, and in this case are, more consequential than the massacre itself.

Well, this is some sort of job security ploy, isn’t it? ‘Sure, a massacre is bad, but the words on the internet that follow it are what’s really dangerous. And I should know because I read, write and criticize words on the internet.’ Warren’s an idiot. You can ‘report’ whatever you like about me, but please don’t shoot me in the face and kill me. Given what a bullet ripping through my grey matter will do to my life, bloggers and their attitudes are pretty inconsequential.

Having said that, I must not leave the impression I think little of the loss of a dozen human beings, the perhaps permanent maiming of many more, and all the consequences of this horror in the lives of their families and friends. But we must not shed crocodile tears. My heart goes out to the victims, but from a great distance: I know none of them personally, I know no one who knows them.

Given that he claims to have an essential and classic grasp of the English language, you’d think he would know the origin of ‘crocodile tears’. The phrase came from witnessing crocs appear to cry as they ate their victims. So it’s a false expression of sadness by the perpetrator. Either Warren thinks that ‘we’ shot everybody or he’s not as smart as he’d like to pretend. No matter your relationship to the language, you’re not seeing any universal insincerity of sadness over the massacre, so I have no idea what he’s getting at.

…We should not allow ourselves to be moved by the cold hearts of professional tear-jerkers because when we reward that kind of thing we help perpetuate an emotional order that is dangerously false. We should instead be annoyed by attempts to manipulate us.

Falsehood has more consequences than the revelation of personal insincerity.

Err, wha? What does that even mean? If I said ‘I really think David Warren wrote a great post,’ wouldn’t that be both a falsehood and personally insincere? And what does the ‘revelation’ of insincerity have to do with anything? The distinctions are…what? The greater danger is…?

What happened at Fort Hood was no kind of “tragedy.” It was a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by a man acting upon known Islamist motives.

Okay, boing, we’re done. Warren is just foisting spastic rhetoric. He’s an alien to his precious English and to rational thought, so he’s not adding anything to the discussion other than digital epilepsy. To him, 9/11 was also ‘a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by [men] acting upon known Islamist motives‘, and therefore ‘no kind of “tragedy.”‘

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November 9, 2009

After one incident where an a-hole Muslim snaps and kills people, Forbes’ Varadarajan asks if we should call it ‘Going Muslim’

Filed under: controversy, horror, race, religion — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 4:20 pm

Nidal Malik Hasan

Nidal Malik Hasan

The guy who posted this, Tunku Varadarajan, obviously thinks he’s pretty sharp for dispensing with the annoying political correctness and calling the Ft. Hood massacre for what it is. We’ve gotten unfortunately used to events where a worker ‘goes postal’, so maybe it’s time we started calling these Muslim killings ‘going Muslim.’ Except for the fact that nothing like it has ever happened before, duh.

‘Going Muslim‘
Tunku Varadarajan, 11.09.09, 12:00 AM EST

America after Fort Hood.

“Going postal” is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker–archetypically a postal worker–”snaps” and guns down his colleagues.

As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we must ask whether we are confronting a new phenomenon of violent rage, one we might dub–disconcertingly–”Going Muslim.” This phrase would describe the turn of events where a seemingly integrated Muslim-American–a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood–discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence against his fellow Americans. This would appear to be what happened in the case of Maj. Hasan.

The stupidity and laziness apparent here are obvious, but I’ll point it out anyway. There’s no reason to assign a familiar name to a ‘phenomenon’ when it’s an unprecedented event. If a little green man broke into your house and shot your dog, would you call it ‘going alien’? If he came down the chimney, would you call it ‘going Santa’?

And there’s an obvious taint of ‘Muslims are dirty foreigners’ here throughout Varadarajan’s post. When an over-wrought worker ‘goes postal’, he’s apparently not a ’seemingly integrated’ guy who ‘discards his apparent integration into American society’. That’s just what happens when Muslims do it.

Note to Tunku: Hasan was born in Arlington, Virginia.

The difference between “going postal,” in the conventional sense, and “going Muslim,” in the sense that I suggest, is that there would not necessarily be a psychological “snapping” point in the case of the imminently violent Muslim; instead, there could be a calculated discarding of camouflage–the camouflage of integration–in an act of revelatory catharsis. In spite of suggestions by some who know him that he had a history of “harassment” as a Muslim in the army, Maj. Hasan did not “snap” in the “postal” manner. He gave away his possessions on the morning of his day of murder. He even gave away–to a neighbor–a packet of frozen broccoli that he did not wish to see go to waste, even as he mapped in his mind the laying waste of lives at Fort Hood. His was a meticulous, even punctilious “departure.”

So not only was he a dirty foreigner, he was a sneaky dirty foreigner.

It’d be more accurate to say that a thinly veiled internet slur upon American Muslims is ‘going Varadarajan’, don’t you think? Incidentally, any of you seen what this guy looks like?

That’s one filthy-looking beard. And who the hell spells their name with two Us and five As? Somebody at Forbes should take a loooooong look at this guy.

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September 29, 2009

Conservatives’ inability to deal with gruesome Sparkman murder continues: ‘He was probably killed by illegal immigrants’

Filed under: conservatives, domestic terrorism, horror — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 8:06 am

How much longer will it be before ACORN will have killed Bill? Days? Hours?

Dead Census worker: Victim of open borders?
Roger Hedgecock
Posted: September 28, 2009

Two weeks ago, Census taker Bill Sparkman died choking, hands and feet bound, hanging naked from a tree in a remote site in Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County, Ky. Someone had scrawled “fed” on his chest with a felt-tipped pen.

Last week, Sparkman’s death became fodder for more attacks on “right-wing violence.” Bloggers wanted to “send the body to Glenn Beck,” and a Time magazine piece speculated that Sparkman was a victim of the culture of another McCain-voting Southern state

Now it looks more like Sparkman was yet another victim of illegal drug operations on national forest land, and possibly also a victim of our still open border with Mexico.

Taking the Census in our national forests is dangerous business. Law enforcement sources say meth labs and marijuana plantations are “prevalent” in the area of Sparkman’s death. Did he stumble across a drug operation in the Daniel Boone National Forest? No one is saying for sure, but the locals believe it…

Our open border with Mexico has been changing American society in a number of unpleasant ways. These fires, these destroyed national forest lands, and maybe even Bill Sparkman’s death, may just be the latest way.


So now it’s wild-eyed drug pushers. But not the white American ones, the brown Mexican ones. This latest story I don’t find very compelling given that illegal immigrants, even, or especially, the ones running drug operations, are very wary of police and the government. When law enforcement drops by, they run.

And when it’s some harmless guy from the Census Bureau, they don’t abduct, kill and hang him. And then write ‘fed’ on the body. That’s a particularly lurid, public message that doesn’t really serve a foreign drug operation. Perhaps Mexican drug-dealer/manufacturers in Mexico, maybe, but not here.

This murder really looks like an act of rage, and Conservatives just refuse to admit they have had a hand in pouring gasoline on already-present anti-government feelings in that part of Kentucky. I don’t imagine the moonshining days are all that far back. Instead, they’re going to keep coming up with ever-more preposterous scenarios, some that obscenely blame the blameless Sparkman for his own murder because, frankly, these right-wingers are cowards.

If it does turn out to be some paranoid ‘Federal Government Rapes and Kills!’ lunatic, watch them pile on that the killer was actually a hard core liberal. Yes, they are that dumb and shameless.

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September 28, 2009

Conservative webscum begin to blame the defenseless, the dead: ‘Was Census Worker Bill Sparkman A Child Predator?’

Filed under: horror, wingnuts — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 4:03 am

Why wouldn’t somebody understandably enraged at a child molester plan and follow him to some far-flung precinct, abduct him, bind his hands and feet, kill him, strip his body naked, hang it from a tree, and scrawl ‘fed’ across his belly? Slap his census i.d. to his side? It’s all so simple.


So many questions…
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Was blogger Dan Riehl cramming his balls up a goat’s ass?

…look, before any more people start going bonkers that I’m accusing Riehl of anything, take a breath…

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Was Dan Riehl chatter-chewing the hair off the bunghole of an African Elephant?

…hey, before any more Liberals start staining their g-strings that I’m accusing Riehl of anything, take a breath…

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>Was Census Worker Bill Sparkman A Child Predator?
Riehl World View
Sunday, September 27, 2009

UPDATE: Before any more people start going bonkers that I’m accusing Sparkman of anything, take a breath. I’ve done a fair amount of crime blogging mixed in with politics over time. One doesn’t rule anything in or out without some firm answers. People feel free to speculate about Meth labs and pot fields but none have been reported in the area, yet. All I’m doing is looking at any and all possibilities. You’d think a moonshiner, or Meth head would have just buried the guy. Why hang him and invite the Feds into it by writing Fed on his chest? Why strip him naked and bind and gag him, which has serious sexual overtones?

I have no idea what happened, but from the reporting I’ve seen, neither does anyone else. If he adopted a boy as a single man, or was married and split with the wife and kids, who knows. But I never assume I know a story or motive until I know it. Right now we don’t. I’m simply speculating on one possible alternative, however impolite.

Someone may as well say it given some peculiar details. The strangest quote I’ve seen in all the reporting around apparently murdered Census worker Bill Sparkman is this one from his Mother located in Florida.

“I have my own ideas, but I can’t say them out loud. Not at this point,” she said. “Right now, what I’m doing, I’m just waiting on the FBI to come to some conclusion.”

She didn’t say she had been advised not to speculate. Being in Florida she has nothing to fear from Kentucky locals, so why the secrecy? Add that to the somewhat mysterious way this case is being revealed by authorities and whatever is behind it, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another surprise in store here.

The condition of the body and his being naked also seems curious. Why strip someone down to their socks only to kill them? Finally Sparkman’s bio and work history suggests at the least he was not just your average guy. No teaching degree, no full-time means of employment and no wife or kids so far as I am aware. But he certainly did gravitate towards children. I can’t help but wonder if this wasn’t a revenge killing disguised to look like something else. If he did have issues in this regard and messed with the wrong kid, it isn’t as if something like that can be ruled out until we know more.

Sparkman’s mother, Henrie Sparkman of Inverness, Fla., told The Associated Press her son was an Eagle scout who moved to the area to be a local director for the Boy Scouts of America. She said he later became a substitute teacher in Laurel County and supplemented that income as a Census worker.

There also seems to be a huge number of small unnamed cemeteries in that area. I haven’t even seen the name of the cemetery he was found in released. Interesting case, if nothing else. But I’m far from certain it has any political ramifications.

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September 25, 2009

AP interview of man who found the body confirms that census worker Bill Sparkman was murdered

Filed under: domestic terrorism, horror, killers — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 6:46 pm

The callous idiot Michelle Malkin can shut the hell up now.


Witness: Census worker’s hanging body naked, bound

BIG CREEK, Ky. – A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body two weeks ago.

Authorities have also said the word “fed” was scrawled with a felt-tip pen across 51-year-old Bill Sparkman’s chest, but they have released very few details about the case and said investigators have not determined if it was a homicide, suicide or an accident.

Federal, state and local authorities have refused to say if Sparkman was at work going to door-to-door for census surveys in the time before his death, but his Census identification tag was found taped to his body.

Jerry Weaver of Fairfield, Ohio, told The Associated Press on Friday that he was among a group of relatives who made the gruesome discovery on Sept. 12.

“The only thing he had on was a pair of socks,” Weaver said. “And they had duct-taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.”

“And they even had duct tape around his neck. And they had like his identification tag on his neck. They had it duct-taped to the side of his neck, on the right side, almost on his right shoulder.”

Two people briefed on the investigation said various details of Weaver’s account matched the details of the crime scene, though both people said they were not informed who found the body. The two spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

Weaver said he couldn’t tell if the tag was a Census Bureau ID because he didn’t get close enough to read it. But both of the people briefed on the investigation confirmed Sparkman’s Census ID was found taped to his head and shoulder area…

Weaver, who works for a family topsoil business in Fairfield, said he was in town for a family reunion and was visiting family grave sites at the cemetery when he and family members including his wife and daughter came across the body.

The scene left Weaver without a doubt how Sparkman died.

“He was murdered,” he said. “There’s no doubt.”

Weaver said the body was about 50 yards from a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck. He said Sparkman’s clothes were in the bed of the truck.

“His tailgate was down,” Weaver said. “I thought he could have been killed somewhere else and brought there and hanged up for display, or they actually could have killed him right there. It was a bad, bad scene.”

“It took me three or four good nights to sleep. My 20-year-old daughter ended up sleeping in the floor in our bedroom.” he said.

Clay County Sheriff Kevin Johnson declined to comment on the investigation because the department is only playing a supporting role but said patrols have increased in the Daniel Boone National Forest since the body was found.

The Census Bureau has suspended door-to-door interviews in the rural county pending the investigation…

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June 24, 2009

Neda Soltan's grieving family not the only ones targeted by the Iran hard-liners–others charged 'bullet fees'

Filed under: horror, tragedy — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 5:58 am

The comments of Neda Soltan’s fiancee, Caspian Makan, paint a troubling picture of Neda’s family and loved ones being bullied by the Iran regime even while they try to cope with her murder.

–’We worked so hard to get the authorities to release her body.’

–’The officials from the morgue asked if they could use parts of her corpse for body transplants for medical patients. They didn’t specify what exactly they intended to do. Her family agreed because they wanted to bury her as soon as possible.’

–’We buried her in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran. They asked us to bury her in this section where it seemed the authorities had set aside spaces for graves for those killed during the violent clashes in Tehran last week.’

–’On Monday afternoon, we had planned to hold a memorial service at the mosque. ..the Basij, wouldn’t allow it because they were worried it would attract unwanted attention and they didn’t want anymore trouble. The authorities are aware that everybody in Iran and throughout the whole world knows about her story. So that’s why they didn’t want a memorial service. They were afraid that lots people could turn up at the event. So as things stand now, we are not allowed to hold any gatherings to remember Neda.’


The Times of London: They forbade her family from holding a wake in a Tehran mosque. They ordered them to bury her without fanfare or eulogy. They ordered them not to speak about her in public, and reportedly even told them to remove the black mourning ribbons outside their house. The state-controlled media mentioned Miss Soltan only to suggest that her death was staged.


If you think that’s bad, then you’ll be furious at the story the Wall Street Journal is reporting [first, via The Beast]:

Iran Charging Bullet Fee

A family in Iran whose son was caught and killed in the protests’ crossfire Saturday was asked to pay the equivalent of $3,000 for the bullet used by security forces, The Wall Street Journal reports. 19-year-old Kaveh Alipour, who was engaged to marry his fiancé next week, was leaving an acting class when he was shot in the head at an intersection in downtown Tehran. Alipour’s father reportedly told police all of his possessions wouldn’t amount to $3,000. The morgue agreed to waive the fee but ordered that Alipour not be buried in the city of Tehran as retribution. He is one of dozens killed in the violent protests in the last week.


The Wall Street Journal Report:

When Mr. Alipour didn’t return home that night, his parents began to worry. All day, they had heard gunshots ringing in the distance. His father, Yousef, first called his fiancée and friends. No one had heard from him.

At the crack of dawn, his father began searching at police stations, then hospitals and then the morgue.

Upon learning of his son’s death, the elder Mr. Alipour was told the family had to pay an equivalent of $3,000 as a “bullet fee”—a fee for the bullet used by security forces—before taking the body back, relatives said.

Mr. Alipour told officials that his entire possessions wouldn’t amount to $3,000, arguing they should waive the fee because he is a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war. According to relatives, morgue officials finally agreed, but demanded that the family do no funeral or burial in Tehran. Kaveh Alipour’s body was quietly transported to the city of Rasht, where there is family.

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June 23, 2009

What we know of Neda Soltan, the woman shot Saturday in Iran

Filed under: horror, iran, tragedy — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 1:58 am

There is now some information about her:

Some sources mistakenly identified her as a 16 year old. She was actually 26 years old.[15][11] She is almost uniformly identified as having been a university student.[15] The Guardian has stated that Neda worked part-time at a travel agency.[16]

The Los Angeles Times reported[11] June 23, 2009: “The second of three children, she studied Islamic philosophy at a branch of Tehran’s Azad University until deciding to pursue a career in tourism. She took private classes to become a tour guide, including Turkish-language courses, friends said, hoping to someday lead groups of Iranians on trips abroad. Travel was her passion, and with her friends she saved up enough money for package tours to Dubai, Turkey and Thailand.“

While she was not an activist, she was interested in the protests.

‘Neda, don’t go’

Her parents and others told her it would be dangerous to go to Saturday’s march, said Golshad.

On Friday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had warned in his weekly sermon that demonstrators would be responsible for any violence that broke out. Even Golshad stayed away. At 3:30 p.m., the two friends spoke.

“I told her, ‘Neda, don’t go,’ ” she recalled, heaving with sobs.

But Agha-Soltan was as stubborn as she was honest, Golshad said.

“She said, ‘Don’t worry. It’s just one bullet and its over.’ “

Because of the heat, she had gotten out of the car only momentarily when she was shot:

On June 20, 2009, Neda, a philosophy student[10], was sitting in her car in traffic on Kargar Avenue in the city of Tehran[5], near the Amir-Abad area, accompanied by her music teacher and close friend, Hamid Panahi.[11][12] They were on their way to attend a march in protest of the issues surrounding the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Having gotten out of the car because of the excessive heat, she was allegedly targeted and shot in the chest by plainclothes Basij paramilitaries who were attempting to subdue the protesters.[13] Neda’s last words were:

I’m burning, I’m burning![11]

Even though Basiji gunmen had no reason to single her out, her friends and family are convinced she was targeted as she stood there:

Her fiance, Caspian Makan, told BBC Persian TV about the circumstances of Neda’s death.

“She was near the area, a few streets away, from where the main protests were taking place, near the Amir-Abad area. She was with her music teacher, sitting in a car and stuck in traffic.

She was feeling very tired and very hot. She got out of the car for just for a few minutes.

And that’s when it all happened.

That’s when she was shot dead. Eyewitnesses and video footage of the shooting clearly show that probably Basij paramilitaries in civilian clothing deliberately targeted her. Eyewitnesses said they clearly targeted her and she was shot in the chest.

She passed away within a few minutes. People tried to take her to the nearest hospital, the Shariati hospital. But it was too late.

We worked so hard to get the authorities to release her body. She was taken to a morgue outside Tehran. The officials from the morgue asked if they could use parts of her corpse for body transplants for medical patients.

They didn’t specify what exactly they intended to do. Her family agreed because they wanted to bury her as soon as possible.

We buried her in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran. They asked us to bury her in this section where it seemed the authorities had set aside spaces for graves for those killed during the violent clashes in Tehran last week.

On Monday afternoon, we had planned to hold a memorial service at the mosque.

But the authorities there and the paramilitary group, the Basij, wouldn’t allow it because they were worried it would attract unwanted attention and they didn’t want anymore trouble.

The authorities are aware that everybody in Iran and throughout the whole world knows about her story. So that’s why they didn’t want a memorial service. They were afraid that lots people could turn up at the event.

So as things stand now, we are not allowed to hold any gatherings to remember Neda.”

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June 21, 2009

Neda dies on video, becomes martyr to protesters in Iran

Filed under: horror, tragedy — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 2:09 pm

IRAN: Footage of woman apparently shot in Tehran galvanizes opposition

A disturbing video showing a young woman purportedly shot in the streets of Tehran is becoming a rallying symbol for opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

It is one of many images and video posted on the Internet that seem to show the violence of today’s crackdown in the capital, where police and pro-government militiamen fired tear gas and water cannons at stone-throwing demonstrators protesting a disputed election.

It is not possible to verify the authenticity of these images, but they have been uploaded repeatedly on YouTube, Facebook and other sites.

A copy of the video was also emailed to The Times. It seems to show a woman lying in the street with blood spurting from her chest. A man leans over, trying to stop the bleeding with his hands.

The footage, which can be viewed on YouTube, is extremely graphic. The identity of the woman could not be independently confirmed. But she is referred to on Twitter as Neda.

“#Neda: You are the VOICE of the people. You are a call to FREEDOM…..rip,” readd one of the many tweets about her apparent slaying.

CNN reports that pictures of the woman are appearing on posters in Tehran and she is being hailed as a martyr. The network broadcast an excerpt of the video with the face of the woman blurred out.

Iranian Americans also downloaded the video and used it to make posters, which were held up at a demonstration today outside the Federal Building in Westwood.

— Alexandra Zavis and Amber Smith

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Iran: Who was the young woman dying in that awful video? Her name was Neda.

Filed under: horror, tragedy — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 1:45 pm

At 19:05 June 20th

Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st.

A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes.

The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St.

The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.

Please let the world know.


h/t La Figa.

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Filed under: horror, tragedy — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 3:41 am

…here’s a rare source of mainstream media that doesn’t blindly suck.

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