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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 11:25 PM
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Iran Violence hits the homeland, Student attacked in Ohio for providing proxys.
Breaking from Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/18/013/53615


Early Report Day 6: Violence hits the homeland, ProtesterHelp attacked in Ohio for providing proxys.

Our top story is the attack on ProtesterHelp. For those who do not know him he has been essential in providing security for Twitterers in Iran, setting up private networks to provide secure proxies to them, calling for media networks to remove the Iranians Twiterers information from their broadcast, and providing counter-intelligence services (including Basiji and Army Locations) within the Twitter community.

I interviewed ProtesterHelp earlier today, following the following group of Tweets from him.

Leaving for college now. Not sure if I'll be permitted to tweet from class. If not, will write full summary of events between classes.

Am safe, hidden away. Will continue to post reports from Iran, no more info about me.

Details: was attacked by single vehicle throwing rocks while walking. Am safe now, though not in contact with anyone in Iran.

@recordedbooks No, I live in America.

I'm fine, filed police report (though they seemed uninterested) Huffington Post will be posting more details at some point.


ProtesterHelp confirmed to me that he was attacked by a group of men that seemed to be either Iranian or Lebanese, while walking to class in Ohio. They drove up besides him and threw rocks at him while shouting, "Mousavi Fraud."

He further informed me that his personal information was leaked, and is currently being spread both online and inside of Iran amongst the government. The former most likely lead to this attack. God only knows what the latter will lead too.

I think this is a strong indicator of how international in scope these events are. A American on American soil has already been attacked due to these protests in Iran.



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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 11:31 PM
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1. This is as unverified as anything else on Twitter lately.
:)

Sensational, none the less
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 11:35 PM
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2. It's KOS, what can I tell ya?
Loved the Jon Stewart rant on how MSM cuts to twitter, iReporter, facebook, as a new source these days.

:P
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 11:37 PM
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3. "because of the circumstances, we are skipping our normal vetting process for information"
Riiiiiight. :)

That was a good clip
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-17-09 11:41 PM
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4. grass roots counter-intelligence services - yeah riiiiiiight
and what's with the "homeland" line. It's cool to use such language because "our guy" is in office?
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 12:19 AM
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5. Next week, he will report he will have a backwards "A" carved in his face
:)

For "Ahmadinejad".
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 12:20 AM
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6. LOL
:spray:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 12:21 AM
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7. I'm still waiting for confirmaition of those "young children" being rounded up and shot.
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Billy Burnett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 01:18 AM
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9. And where are those Delta airliners filled with Chavez' riot troops that were headed to Iran?
:shrug:

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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 01:08 AM
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8. Anybody know what the little girl's sign says? nt
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 01:27 AM
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10. Don't care for the use of the word "homeland" but K+R for the story. n/t
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 01:43 AM
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11. yeah, it's a shortened version of the Kos header. I'd never use that word otherwise.
THX. :P
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