Posted on 06/21/2009 5:06:24 PM PDT by libh8er
They call her Neda, which means 'voice' in Farsi, and her death has become the central rallying cry of the Iranian rebellion.
The pretty teenage girl killed by what appears to be a single sniper shot on the streets of Tehran Saturday is now a potent symbol for pro-democracy protesters battering the Islamic regime.
Her quick and brutal death in the arms of her howling father was captured on close-up video, posted to Facebook and sent to computer screens across the world.
"Neda you broke my heart, too young to die," was one of a flood of messages on Twitter.
"RIP Neda, the world cries seeing your last breath," read another. "Neda is everyone's sister, everyone's daughter, everyone's voice for freedom," said a third.
Iconic posters of her dead face, open-eyed and bloody, were carried by demonstrators in Los Angeles and New York City within hours.
The graphic video was originally posted to Facebook by an Iranian expatriate in Holland who said it was sent to him by a friend in Tehran, a doctor who tried to save the girl.
The expat said her name was Neda Soltani, a 16-year-old philosophy student.
The outpouring of messages on Twitter included a new account dedicated solely to insisting the video was fake. That poster was roundly shouted down as a tool of the Iranian regime.
May God welcome her into His kingdom, and comfort her family.
I saw the video.
Murdering bastards.
Had it been a Gazan killed by an IDF this would fill the first three pages of the State Run Media papers.
I posted this video yesterday and someone here said it was a fake. There is something in the man’s hand that could have been a vial of red stuff.
I don’t know if it has been proven a real video but she is the face of the Showdown. Perhaps the same as the boy in front of the tank many years ago.
I’ve seen the YouTube video. It’s fairly short. You have to sign in to see it. They want to make sure you’re old enough to view it.
RIP and prayers to her family.
I opened the link but I just could not bring my self to watch the video.
Neda is the sister of all of us who hope and pray for freedom in Iran.
I’ve seen the YouTube video. It’s fairly short. You have to sign in to see it. They want to make sure you’re old enough to view it.
RIP and prayers to her family.
“Murdering bastards.”
Hell has a special place for creatures like the murderers in Iran.
Considering the fact they laid her down in a pool of her own blood, I doubt it was fake.
I can describe it to you if you wish. It is not sensationalistic, IMO.
Re: the pic of zer0 at 11 — Look hard at the clueless countenance on his face. He’s so in over his head he can’t even see the water level. Resign, zer0. You’re not cut out for the job.
It is very disturbing, very graphic, very real. Murder, right there on the screen in front of you. Cold-blooded murder.
And obviously the cold part got to Obama, who reacted by stepping out for icecream.
I believe that poster later retracted his or her speculation. There is a second video that shows the same scene from a slightly different angle.
“I doubt it was fake.”
No way was it fake. It was a nasty, awful, brutal death. Poor girl and her family.
The initial red substance that’s seen as she falls and they go to her assistance might have been fake blood, but the look on her face and the progression of the bleeding is not fake. What I see on that video is quite consistent with the behavior of a person shot through the heart.
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