Day: June 26, 2009

Indiana: White Supremacist’s home in Warsaw raided

(U.S.) Indiana: White Supremacist’s home in Warsaw raided
— “Agents served a search warrant on the Warsaw home of Thomas Metzger, according to Special Agent Kim Riddell with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.”
— “A longtime leader in the white supremacist movement and founder of the White Aryan Resistance group, Metzger manages a racist Web site and has been affiliated with a number of hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Christian Identity movement, according to the Anti-Defamation League”

Iran Reports – June 26, 2009

Iranian cleric says “rioters” should be executed
— Ahmad Khatami: “without showing any mercy”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090626/wl_nm/us_iran_election
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6583797.ece

Iranian cleric: harsh punishment for riot leaders — Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami
— “A leading cleric demanded in a nationally broadcast sermon Friday that leaders of the unrest be punished ‘strongly and with cruelty.'”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7935256
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election
— Iran: Cleric calls for ‘savage’ punishment for protesters
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3472488496

(Iran) Mousavi backs away from Iran street protests
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31564910/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Iran election: Tehran backs Hizbollah operations around world
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5651837/Iran-election-Tehran-backs-Hizbollah-operations-around-world.html
— Hizbullah accuses West of fomenting turmoil in Iran
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=185052

(Iran) NYC: Planned Iranian Democracy Protests in NYC on Saturday June 27
https://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/nyc-protests-june-27/

(Iran) Europe: Iranians mobilizing
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/06/europe-iranians-mobilizing.html

(Iran) Sweden: Protesters break into Iranian embassy in Sweden
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWEDEN_IRAN_EMBASSY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-06-26-12-07-35

Iran election: G8 foreign ministers condemn violence
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5648281/Iran-election-G8-foreign-ministers-condemn-violence.html
— G8 considers condemning Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5645932/G8-considers-condemning-Iran.html

Iranian Electoral watchdog says disputed vote Iran’s ‘cleanest’
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/June/middleeast_June880.xml&section=middleeast

(Iran) Communist China wants Ahmadinejad election recognized
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/23/china-wants-ahmadinejad-election-recognized/?feat=article_top10_read

Iranian protesters avoid censorship with Navy technology
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/26/protesters-use-navy-technology-to-avoid-censorship/?feat=home_headlines

Iranian envoy: CIA involved in Neda’s shooting?
— Iranian Ambassador to Mexico Mohammad Hassan Ghadir blames CIA
— “Media aren’t reporting on pro-Ahmadinejad demonstrations, he says”
— “CIA spokesman says idea is ‘wrong, absurd and offensive'”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/25/iran.ambassador/index.html

(Iran) Arab Activists Watch Iran And Wonder: ‘Why Not Us?’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504415.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

(Iran) Where is Soroush? – by Gary Johnson
http://unitedagainstislamicsupremacism.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/where-is-soroush/
— Wikipedia states: Souroush seeks a “religious democracy”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdolkarim_Soroush#Religious_democracy

Louisiana: Accessory in Ku Klux Klan killing admits guilt, gets one-year sentence

(U.S.) Louisiana: Accessory in Ku Klux Klan killing admits guilt, gets one-year sentence
— Danielle Jones – in murder of Ku Klux Klan recruit Cynthia Lynch
— “A member of a Bogalusa Ku Klux Klan group was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison after she pleaded guilty to being an accessory in the killing of an Oklahoma woman who reportedly tried to back out of a KKK initiation last year in St. Tammany Parish.”
— “Almost timid, Danielle Jones, 24, quietly admitted giving authorities false information immediately after the murder of Klan recruit Cynthia Lynch, 43, who was shot to death Nov. 9 in a remote part of northeastern St. Tammany. Jones later acknowledged witnessing the shooting, according to the factual basis she admitted to during her plea at the parish courthouse in Covington.”
— “In November, seven alleged Sons of Dixie members, all from the Bogalusa area, were booked on obstruction of justice charges, but the grand jury only indicted Shane Foster, 21, and Frank Stafford, 21, on those charges. The panel indicted Jones on the lesser accessory after the fact charge, and dropped all charges against the four others who had been arrested on obstruction charges.”

Communist China: Rock Church of Zhengzhou, Henan Banned; 7 Christians Still Detained

Communist China: Rock Church of Zhengzhou, Henan Banned; 7 Christians Still Detained
— “ChinaAid received more details regarding the persecution of Rock (Panshi) Church, a house church in Zhengzhou City, Henan. On June 14, government officials forcibly abolished and sealed Rock Church’s building. Eight Christians have been detained, with one released.”