Mourning Neda Agha Soltan.

[Call Me Wesley]

Also check out Will Pitt's thread here.

Iranian Martyr's Mother Wants Justice

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1564524,00.jpg

By Ulrike Putz (DER SPIEGEL)

When Neda Agha Soltan was killed on June 20, the world watched in horror. Now a symbol of Iran's reform movement, the memorial to mark the 40 days since her death has seen clashes between mourners and security forces. Her mother told SPIEGEL ONLINE that she just wants to find the culprit.

What's left for a mother who's watched her daughter die on television? A woman who watched as blood streamed from her child's nose and mouth, as her gaze emptied, as those who bent to help her begged her not to let go?

Read full article here.

[Heidi]

1. Justice???? What a filthy, rotten liberal concept.

You're not from around here, are you? Get a haircut, hippy.

Recommended.

:kick:

[Call Me Wesley]

7. I'll get a haircut on Monday.

Someone set me up for it! ;)

[Billy Burnett]

2. Article repeats false meme.

The world did not watch the whole event. There is no video of her being shot. Just video of some girl (who's ID was "confused" for days, even after posters of a wrong picture of some other girl became the symbol of the CIA's "green revolution") lying on the ground (with an unusual blood splatter on the ground in front of her inconsistent with a gun shot wound) and a group of people crowding around screaming. Imo, video is suspect in several ways.

[Posteritatis]

3. Wow. (nt)

[tekisui]

4. Riiiiiiight.

:eyes:

[chrisa]

5. It's a TRAP!

A new conspiracy is born.

[Call Me Wesley]

6. OK. (nt)

[Heidi]

8. Sort of (but really _only_ "sort of") off topic. One of my favorite songs is "Under the Bridge."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYbAEVEa8eU

[Warpy]

9. The video is consistent with a gunshot wound to the chest

and someone bleeding out very quickly. Other video showed the same girl in the same place with the same companions watching the demonstration.