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.
And while a city drowned.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/Bush-guitar.jpg
Bush Derangement Syndrome has given way to O’Bama Derangement Syndrome
Nope. Her right arm moves near the end.
Nonsense. This is the tactic the left in this country always tries to play. "Hey, as long we are on the right side of the issue, facts don't matter."
Iran bans prayers for ‘Angel of Freedom’ Neda Agha Soltan
Iran’s regime has issued a ban on memorials for a young woman whose death has become the focal point of protests against the clerical regime.
by Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Published: 5:21PM BST 22 Jun 2009
Neda Agha Soltan, 27, was dubbed the Angel of Freedom after a video which appeared to show her being shot by a government sniper was posted on the internet.
Graphic scenes show Neda – her name means “the call” – walking with her father among demonstrators, then separately when she was shot as well as attempts to save her life.
Some online posts speculated the image would rank alongside that of the unnamed man standing in front of a tank in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the summary execution of a Vietnamese Communist prisoner by Colonel Nugyen Ngoc Loan in 1968.
Footage was posted on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook and was viewed by tens of thousands. Messages of sympathy and outrage flooded the internet following the posting of the videos.
The Iranian authorities have now sent out a circular to mosques banning collective prayers for the woman
To have a Post Turtle President like Obama and the Thugocracy he has surrounding him at this time - may doom the Freedom loving Iranians as well as the rest of us.
And the caller on “Rush” today describes that as
“Calm confidence”
Islam is the new Satanism.
No problem with asking questions, per se. However:
Have deniers explained how blood can pour from the “faker’s” mouth and nostrils and eyes, and no blinking, coughing, bubbles — not even eye movement?
OK, some might object to this, but I’m calling it the way I see it.
In the video that begins from across the street, then moves toward her feet, I believe you can see evidence that bowel evacuation has taken place. Her jeans seem to be filled up from the rear.
Hard to fake that. She died and naturally lost control of her bowels.
I for one thank you for posting the still. I didn’t want to sign up just to see what others are talking about.
When you are watching you-tubes you can usually put your cursor on the moving 'button', left click and hold it down on most any frame. I can get screen captures that way.
There was blood on the street immediately after she fell. Click on my link for a 9 frame slideshow.
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