So,just who are these Basiji,secret police who are shooting protesters dead in the streets?

dos pelos

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Tue Jun-23-09 03:03 AM
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So,just who are these Basiji,secret police who are shooting protesters dead in the streets?

Let's unmask these folks.Let's identify them.Then they can be held accountable for their actions.
In that spirit,here is a website devoted to identifying some of these people.Pass it on to someone who can identify someone in these photos or who can use the information.

http://iran.whyweprotest.net/pictures/1701-faces-basiji.html

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magellan

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Tue Jun-23-09 03:40 AM
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1. K&R

Thanks for sharing this.

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EFerrari

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Tue Jun-23-09 03:46 AM
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2. Most of those photographs have no context. They could be anyone.

Or, am I missing something?

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Kaleko

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Tue Jun-23-09 04:29 AM
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4. I agree. This could be misused to slander anybody without verification.

The OP links to a site with more links and a photo, identifying a man as basiji:

from http://iran.whyweprotest.net/pictures/1701-faces-basiji.html

I want to help but hunting down suspects over the net is not my cuppa tea.

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aquart

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Tue Jun-23-09 04:36 AM
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5. Riding double on a cop motorcycle tucking a gun in his waistband.

Yeah, he couldn't be Basij. Must be someone else. Funny how he's been identified several times now. Funny where that's been.

People on DU really take the Iranians for idiots, I swear.

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Kaleko

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Tue Jun-23-09 04:47 AM
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7. Wait a minute. I don't take Iranians for idiots.

Quite the opposite. I'm saying I can't be part of this hunt for basiji in my post, okay?

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jeanpalmer

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Tue Jun-23-09 04:26 AM
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3. Who knows who is doing the killing

If there are foreign intelligence agencies involved in Iran or terrorist groups like Mujahedin Khalq, they might have an incentive to kill people and blame it on the government, for propaganda purposes.

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aquart

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Tue Jun-23-09 04:38 AM
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6. Again, you assume the Iranians are idiots.

Too stupid to know who's killing them. Racist much?

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dipsydoodle

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Tue Jun-23-09 04:51 AM
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8. I can understand the value of the pictures inside Iran

but not outside of the country. :shrug:

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