Pakistani Christian girl burnt alive after rape by Muslim employer — Kiran George
Pakistan Christian Post reports: — “A Christian girl working as housemaid was raped by son her Muslim employer and on her threats to report police was burnt by rapist and his sister in city of Sheikhupura in Punjab province of Pakistan.”
— “Kiran George was 80% burnt when Mohammad Ahmad Raza and his sister threw petrol on her and set her on fire to keep her mouth shut to report rape.”
— “Kiran George was brought to Mayo Hospital Lahore from Sheikhupura on March 9, 2010, where she recorded her statement to police that Mohammad Ahmed Raza raped her in his home during work.”
— “She died here in Mayo Hospital Lahore today and her dead body was taken back to her home in Jahangirabad colony in Sheipkupura.”
— “Sheikhupura is some 40 miles from city of Lahore, Punjab.”
— “Sources told PCP that Kiran George have complained with her friends about bad behavior of Mohammad Ahmad Raza to her friends but was hesitant to leave job due to poverty of her parents.”
— “Muslim employer of Kiran George instead of taking her to hospital called her parents and made a story that her clothes caught fire when she was cleaning kitchen.”
— “It is second case of rape-murder of Christian housemaid in Punjab, when Shazia Bashir was raped and murder by her Muslim employer Mohammad Naeem advocate on 21st January 2010, in city of Lahore.”
— “According to PCP, the relatives of Kiran George blocked road and burnt tires and demanded arrest of killers.”
— Christian community takes to streets over maid’s murder
— Pakistan Daily Times reports:
— “The Christian community on Thursday blocked the Lahore-Sheikhupura Road in protest against the alleged murder of a Christian maid by her employers.”
— “The family of the deceased girl, Kiran, alleged that Ahmed Raza, along with his mother and another relative, had doused the victim with petrol and set her on fire following a marriage dispute.”
— The Station House Officer (SHO) “said that some days ago Ahmad and his family had allegedly burnt Kiran after she demanded that Ahmad marry her. He said that police had registered a case and had arrested the culprits.”
As the Voice of the Copts’ Ashraf Ramellah and others have pointed out, “Christians of Egypt, also known as Copts, have been living under discrimination, oppression and persecution for almost 1430 years.”
A young nation such as the United States of America can barely grasp the concept of such a lengthy and protracted oppression of any group. America itself is only 234 years old. The international Declaration of Universal Human Rights was created just over 60 years ago. So I can only imagine the great frustration, the great discouragement, and the great resentment and anger that any group that has been persecuted for over a millennium would have today. Furthermore, I can also only imagine the great skepticism that any group persecuted that long would have in hearing suggestions from American human rights activists today.
But sometimes “out of the mouths of babes” comes great strength and wisdom. So I have a message today, on behalf of our organization here, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) – not just to stand in solidarity with the oppressed Copts in Egypt – but also a message to the Copts’ oppressors.
To both the Copts and to their oppressors, I invite you to consider seeking a path to a new Egypt, to an Undiscovered Country, where freedom of religion, where freedom of conscience, where our universal human rights of equality and liberty, are not just special privileges, but are guaranteed rights for all human beings.
I invite you to pursue a path where human rights and peace are not considered as opposite choices, but are recognized as equal priorities. And I invite you to pursue a path where we leave hate in our past, and choose love for our future.
America may be a young nation, by Egypt’s standards. But for a young nation, we know a lot about hate. We also know about a lot about defying hate, and standing up for our fellow human beings’ universal human rights. America has and will continue to make a lot of mistakes; I don’t suggest for one second that we have a perfect record on human rights ourselves.
But what I do believe is that there have been instances in America’s history that both the Copts and the Copts’ oppressors can use to learn from in going forward in finding peace and human dignity in Egypt in the future.
In America, we have struggled with a terrible disease of hate known as white racial supremacism that sought to deny non-white Americans voting rights, employment, with nationwide discrimination and even attacks on non-white houses of worship. Our nation was divided and fought a Civil War over this disease. Our nation had to come to grips with a 4 million member terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan, over this disease. One hundred years after our national Civil War, we had to fight yet another war of ideas in American places of work, public institutions, and schools for black American civil rights. The black and other non-white victims of such oppression held rallies and protested, they sought leaders, and demanded their rights, not unlike what the Copts in Egypt are doing today.
But the ANSWER to this problem did not come only from the protests of the minority who were oppressed. Rather it also came from the majority who finally came to realize that such oppression was THEIR problem and was THEIR responsibility to change. In my own lifetime, with my own eyes, I have seen America come from a nation where black Americans were widely hated and disrespected by many, with businesses that would only serve “white clientele,” to a nation where a black American is President of the United States.
My message to Egyptians, and especially to Egyptian Muslims, is to recognize that is the POWER of love. It could change America. It can change Egypt and the world.
Egypt is not America. I know that. But we are all human beings. The human beings of any religion, any race, are still the same human beings as we are. The lesson that young America has for Egypt is that even the oppressors of others can realize our shared humanity, and find the humility and shame to admit when they have been wrong. The lesson that young America has for Egypt is that there is always hope for any of us to change and choose love, not hate.
The lesson young America has for Egypt is that any of us can set a path for the Undiscovered Country where our human rights and dignity are inherent in our national identity, including in Egypt.
So my message to Egyptian Muslims today is don’t look to just the Coptic victims of oppression for the solution to peace and human rights in Egypt. Don’t expect only the Copts and their diaspora around the world to deal with this problem.
Egyptian Muslims – this is YOUR problem and YOUR responsibility. Egyptian Muslims – the change in Egypt and your government to end the millennium of oppression against Copts – begins with YOU. Hate hurts us all. Rejecting hate is our shared responsibility as human beings, not only in Egypt, but also in all of our shared Earth.
Some will say that it is impossible for Egyptian Muslims to assume such responsibilities, and state that Egyptian Muslims cannot recognize our universal human rights, but only those “rights” dictated by the OIC-created Cairo Declaration that only recognizes rights under “Sharia.” A decision to accept our unqualified universal human rights is also a choice that Egyptian Muslims must make, if they seek to be part of the brotherhood and sisterhood accepting such shared human rights. There is no mandate to oppress Egypt Copts that all Muslims must follow. There is no mandate of “Sharia” in the Qur’an other than choosing the “right path.”
Egyptian Muslims can choose to believe that some so-called religious scholars can justify denying universal human rights under their interpretations of “Sharia,” or they can choose to “let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. (Qur’an 5:8).”
Such choices to defend human justice are never without consequences. There were some in America who once believed that white racial supremacism was legally justified. When increasing numbers of white American rejected such hate and injustices, they were called “race traitors” and were hated themselves. This continues even among some today. But real courage requires that we are consistently responsible for equality and liberty – not just for people like us, but also and perhaps especially for people who are NOT like us.
So I also know that there are those Egyptian Muslims who have called for human rights that have been demonized and hated. Some are threatened as well. But the choices we make define who and what we are as human beings. The choices we make can shape the history of our nations and the future for our children. The choices we make can bring us closer to finding the Undiscovered Country of human rights, dignity, and justice for all of our fellow human beings.
So today, we urge Egyptian Muslims, on behalf of the oppressed Egyptian Copts, but also on behalf of freeing Egypt from its bondage to hatred and oppression, to choose wisely for their future, their children’s future, and their nation’s future. Choose to end the oppression of Copts in Egypt, and the bondage of all Egyptians from codes that defy our shared universal human rights for all.
Egypt: Violence Against Copts Goes Unprosecuted — report by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
— USCIRF reports: “The acquittal of four Muslim men for the murder of a Coptic Christian man in the Upper Egypt town of Dairout is the latest example in a growing pattern of instances where individuals have not been brought to justice after committing violent acts against Christians and their property, said the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).”
— “The February 22 acquittal dealt with the October 19, 2009 murder of Farouk Attallah, which reportedly was witnessed by a number of individuals. Four Muslim men were arrested by Egyptian authorities.”
— “According to reports, Mr. Attallah’s Christian son was involved in a romantic relationship with a Muslim girl. The Muslim men allegedly had planned to attack the young man, but when the attackers could not find him, they killed his father. The court stated the reason for the acquittal was insufficient evidence.”
— “‘This is one of more than a dozen incidents USCIRF has followed in the last year or so in which Coptic Christians have been the targets of violence,’ said USCIRF chair Leonard Leo, who led a USCIRF fact-finding delegation to Egypt in January.”
One of Richard Spencer’s first articles was to address“AltRight and Its Enemies,” complaining about articles by Imagine 2050 and Tim Mak on the new “Alternative Right” organization. In Richard Spencer’s article on his “enemies,” he praises the rebuttal to Tim Mak by “Hunter Wallace” of the anti-Semitic, white nationalist Occidental Dissent group. Richard Spencer publishes “Hunter Wallace’s” comments and Wallace’s support for “Alternative Right,” where “Hunter Wallace” states: “We support what they are doing.” Occidental Dissent’s mission is “the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America.” This is the same “Hunter Wallace” who seeks a Southern white “ethnostate” and who also admires Adolf Hitler. “Hunter Wallace” praises Richard Spencer as the “acknowledged leader” and the “William F. Buckley of this social movement.” The leader of the anti-Semitic, white nationalist Occidental Dissent group “Hunter Wallace” also views that “Alt Right is emerging as a popular internet watering hole where we can interact and share ideas.”
"Alternative Right" Richard Spencer Thanks Occidental Dissent's "Hunter Wallace" for "Skillfully" Defending Him
While he was with TakiMag, Alternative Right’s Richard Spencer had invited “white nationalist” American Renaissance leader Jared Taylor to write for TakiMag, leading to Jared Taylor’s article “Whiteout” condemning “racial mixing” and seeking whites to start “sticking up for their rights as white people.”
Richard Spencer also describes himself as a fan of Craig Bodeker (who was a scheduled speaker at the white nationalist American Renaissance conference), “Epic Beard Man” (white man filmed in violent attack on a black man on a bus praised by racists), anti-feminist Spearhead, AmericanNewRight.com, VlaamsBelang, LewRockwell.com, and the Ludwig Von Mises Institute. Richard Spencer has clearly indicated the activists that he is interested in reaching with his “Alternative Right” campaign.
Robert Weissberg posts on the Alternative Right website about “The Siren Song of Diversity,” stating that “the public sector transformation means going from blacks being governed by whites to whites, save at the highest administrative levels, being governed by blacks. In other words, yesterday’s short-order cook is today’s assistant school principal or IRS supervisor.”
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Nazi, white supremacist, “white nationalist,” and “race realist” supporters to drop the burden of the hate of supremacism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
White Woman Cynthia Lynch, 43, Murdered for Deciding Not to Join Ku Klux Klan (Photo: AP)
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge white supremacist, “white nationalist,” and “race realist” supporters to drop the burden of the hate of supremacism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
In Jos, Nigeria, a massacre took place during the night of March 7, 2010 with 500 Christians murdered in the night by a gang with machetes – killing women and children. A summary from London Times Africa reporter and other media reports are listed below.
The London Times reports “500 butchered in Nigeria killing fields”: — London Times summary: “Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by rampaging Muslim gangs near the city of Jos. Survivors told The Times that entire families were killed, some to the chants of Allahu Akbar – God is Greatest”
— London Times report: — “Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.”
— “One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his brother. Another had been scalped. Most had severed hands and feet.”
— “Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by Muslim gangs near Jos, the city that bestrides Nigeria’s Christian-Muslim fault line.”
— “Local journalists and civil rights organisations who toured the area yesterday told The Times they had counted at least 200 victims shot and hacked to death in apparent revenge for sectarian violence in January that claimed about 300 lives from the two communities. Mark Lipdo, a co-ordinator for the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian aid group, confirmed at least 93 dead in one village. ‘But there are corpses charred beyond recognition,’ he said.”
— “Survivors claimed that Muslim inhabitants of the targeted villages of Zot, Dogo Nahawa and Rastat had received telephone calls two days before the attack telling them to leave the area.”
— “Witnesses said gangs waited at main entry points to the villages while others went from house to house, setting the homes on fire.”
— “Those who fled were killed at the exit points. Others were slaughtered after being caught in animal traps and nets as they ran in the dark.”
— “Ben Kwashi, Anglican Archbishop of Jos, said he visited one of three villages engulfed by the violence. ‘I could see kids from age zero to teenagers, all butchered from the back, macheted in their necks, their heads. Deep cuts in the mouths of babies. The stench. People wailing and crying,’ he said.”
— “Nigeria’s Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner, ordered troops into the riot-affected area ‘to confront and defeat these roving bands of killers’, he said in a statement. Last night he sacked Sarki Mukhtar, the national security adviser, a powerful figure in the inner circle of the ailing President, Umaru Yar’Adua.”
— “Villagers said army assistance came too late. Christian youths accused the military of complicity in the killings.”
Aftermath of March 7, 2010 Jos Attack (Photo: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)Aftermath of March 7, 2010 Jos Attack (Photo: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)Image of March 7, 2010 Attack Aftermath as Bodies were Gathered (Photo: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)
— London Times: “Nigerian Christian villagers flee threats of fresh attacks by Muslims” — The London Times reports:
— “Frightened Christians streamed out of villages in central Nigeria yesterday after threats of new attacks from Muslims responsible for a weekend massacre in which at least 500 people were killed.”
— “Under the gaze of troops rushed into the area, burials for the victims of the violence — believed to be in revenge for Christian killings of Muslims in late January — took place near the city of Jos, the provincial capital of Plateau State. Thousands have been killed in similar religious clashes in recent years.”
London Times: "Witnesses said that gangs waited at main entry points to the villages while others went from house to house, setting the homes on fire" (Photo: London Times)
— LA Times: Nigerian massacre victims buried in mass grave
— The LA Times reports:
— “Reporting from Ratsat, Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, and Lagos, Nigeria — The victims of Sunday’s sectarian massacres were buried in mass graves in central Nigeria on Monday as survivors told horrific stories of Christian villagers being trapped in nets and hacked to death by Muslim herdsmen.”
— “Reports on the death toll differed wildly, with some placing it at about 200 and others reporting 528 killed and thousands injured. Casualty figures in the recurrent Muslim-Christian violence in Nigeria’s volatile Plateau state are often difficult to ascertain, as each side inflates its losses.”
— “However, attacks in January and on Sunday have left at least 500 dead, making it the worst violence here for some years.”
Mass Grave in Jos After Attack (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
The anti-democracy group Hizb ut-Tahrir has used the opportunity of International Women’s Day (March 8, 2010) to make renewed calls for its caliphate. As R.E.A.L. reported in July 2009 and December 2009, the Hizb ut-Tahrir America organization requires that women sit separately at the back of the room in their functions, as you can see from these photos of Chicago Hizb ut-Tahrir America event:s
Anti-Democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir America December 20, 2009 Meeting at Govt-Managed Facility in Lombard, Illinois -- Women Segregated and Only Permitted to Sit in the Back of the RoomHizb ut-Tahrir Instructs Women to Sit in Back of Conference Room - at July 2009 Event in Chicago
Hizb ut-Tahrir states at khilafah.com that:
“Regardless of the introduction of laws and global women’s organisations, women remain disadvantaged. Some argue that the Gender Equality movement has further entrenched the problems that women suffer since they are now expect to be equal to a man, work as hard as a man, and commit as much as a man. This notion is contradictory since ‘gender’ points to the biological differences between men and women, ‘gender equality’ eliminates gender from the discussion entirely.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir also states at khilafah.com that:
“Upon understanding the real protection and nurturing that a Khilafah state would bring men and women alike, is it any wonder that there is an overwhelming call for its return. The vast majority of those polled in a Gallup survey in 2005 said that they would want to see Shari’ah as the sole source of legislation. It is only the Khilafah that will ensure the rights of all citizens, men and women, Muslim and non- Muslim”
In Chicago at Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s July 2009 event, the pamphlet distributed by Hizb ut-Tahrir condemned efforts at “reforming Islam,” which Hizb ut-Tahrir also stated included “liberalising women” (page 5). Hizb ut-Tahrir also condemns efforts to promote “women’s rights and tolerance” as part of a “US plan” and a “struggle to reform Islam itself” (pages 10,11). Hizb ut-Tahrir condemned a U.S. “Freedom Agenda” giving priority to “Women’s groups engaged in gender equality campaigns.” Hizb ut-Tahrir rejects equality and instead seeks to promote “equivalence” of men and women based on having “equivalent” obligations under its interpretation of Islam. In Hizb ut-Tahrir’s pamphlet distributed at the Chicago July 2009 event, it states that “Equality is not the basis of Islam and never has been in the history of Islamic jurisprudence. This is a term alien to Islam.” (page 64).
The Blog Indonesia Matters also reports that “Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) champions polygamy and rails against gender equality and domestic violence laws.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) plans to hold a public awareness street corner event in Washington DC’s Georgetown on Saturday March 6 from 4 to 6 PM regarding women’s human rights, in recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8. The event will be held on the corner in front of the PNC Bank at 1201 Wisconsin Avenue, on the corner of Wisconsin and M Streets NW.
— Call for an End to Rape as Weapon of War and Violence against Women!
— Over 1,000 women raped per month in the Congo – destroying families!
— Help now at GabkulFoundation.org
— Demand Constitutional Equality for all American Women in the United States!
— Call for Your Legislators and State Govt to Support the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.)!
— See ERA NOW Web Site at http://bit.ly/eranow
— Educate Others on the Continuing Plight of “Honor Killings,” Stonings, and Religious Extremist Hate and Violence against Women!
— DVD of “The Stoning of Soraya M” on March 9!
— Find Out More at RealCourage.org
Washington DC's Georgetown: Corner of Wisconsin and M Streets NW
Logistics for Georgetown Public Awareness Event
— Georgetown Site – 1201 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, DC 20007-3221 – in front of PNC Bank (aka Farmers and Mechanics)
— (Note PNC Bank: closes Saturday at 4:00)
— click on link for “street view”
— Transportation by Car: There is a Colonial Parking Lot at 3222 M St. NW – Shops at Georgetown Park — allow plenty of time for parking, or prepare to be “dropped off” – don’t count on any streetside parking. The lot is essentially half a block away (north) from PNC Bank event location
— Transportation by Subway: Good 15-20 minute walk. Take subway to Foggy Bottom Metro Stop (same stop we used for April 4 Lincoln Memorial rally)
1. Exit station through FOGGY BOTTOM METRO STATION entrance.
2. Walk approx. 1 block N on 23rd St NW.
3. Turn left on Washington Circle NW.
4. Walk approx. 1 block W on Washington Circle NW.
5. Bear left on Pennsylvania Ave NW.
6. Walk approx. 4 blocks NW on Pennsylvania Ave NW.
7. Bear left on M St NW.
8. Walk approx. 3 blocks W on M St NW.
Buffalo area media report on the trial preparations of Muzzammil Hassan who beheaded his wife Aasiya in February 2009, in what many believe to be an “honor killing.” Attorneys for Muzzammil Hassan are now planning a “psychiatric defense” for the former owner of Bridges TV. His trial is currently scheduled for September 2010.
Aasiya Zubair Hassan - Suspected Victim of "Honor Killing" in Buffalo, NY
WVIB reports “Man seeks court psych defense
Muzzammil Hassan accused of beheading his wife” — “Attorneys for an Orchard Park man accused of beheading his wife want to pursue a psychiatric defense.”
— “They’re asking the courts to give their client, 44-year-old Muzzammil Hassan, access to his bank accounts to pay for experts.”
— “Investigators said Hassan beheaded his wife, Aasiya, in February of 2009.”
— “Her body was found at the studios of Bridges Television, a Muslim TV network that the couple operated.”
— ” ‘The reality is that based on his name, based on the color of his skin, and based on the fear and the panic of all Americans of terrorists and Muslims. This man’s got a difficult time as it is,’ Hassan’s Attorney, Julie Atti Rogers explained.”
— “Jury selection could get underway in September.”
Buffalo News reports “Hassan lawyers eye psych defense” — “Attorneys for Muzzammil S. ‘Mo’ Hassan Friday said the media and public have misconstrued Hassan’s actions in the beheading of his estranged wife, Aasiya Zubair Hassan.”
— “Many have wrongly come to regard Hassan as an Islamic terrorist, and the general public is suffering from ‘Islamophobia,’ defense attorneys Julie Atti Rogers and Frank M. Bogulski said after a court appearance Friday.”
— “Hassan is ‘a nonpracticing Muslim,’ Rogers said, while Bogulski stressed that Hassan ‘doesn’t pray five times a day’ as an obedient Muslim would.”
— “Hassan, 44, is accused of killing and beheading his 37-year-old wife on Feb. 12, 2009, soon after she began divorce proceedings against him.”
— “Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk has scheduled a May 4 hearing to consider defense challenges to an alleged confession Hassan made to Orchard Park police about an hour after his wife was killed in the office of their Bridges cable television station.”
— “During a brief court session Friday, Franczyk kept in place his order barring a psychiatric defense for Hassan, but he agreed to reconsider if Hassan’s attorneys file motions in coming months.”
— “Bogulski recently claimed that the victim drove her husband into an uncontrollable homicidal rage, and he and Rogers said Friday they are confident they can convince the judge of the propriety of their defense strategy. They acknowledged they need the court-approved release of some of Hassan’s funds to finance their effort.”
— “The defense attorneys said they will go to Erie County Surrogate’s Court on Tuesday to fight for the release of money from Hassan’s bank accounts to pay for his proposed psychiatric defense.”
— “The two attorneys also said they will begin court action to try to get Hassan’s two children returned from Pakistan, where they were taken by Aasiya Zubair Hassan’s relatives.”
— “Hassan fears the children ‘will be radicalized’ in Pakistan, Bogulski said.”
Trial in NY decapitation killing now likely Sept.
— AP reports: “The founder of an Islam-oriented television station who’s accused of beheading his wife will likely be tried in September after a change of lawyers added to delays.”
— “Muzzammil ‘Mo’ Hassan (moo-ZAHM’-mel moh HAH’-sahn) was arrested in February 2009 and charged with second-degree murder following the death of Aasiyah (AH’-see-ya HAH’-sahn) Hassan in the studios of Bridges TV near Buffalo.”
— “Since then, various factors, including wrangling over his assets in surrogate court, have slowed progress toward trial. An initial January date was moved to March. During a brief court session Friday, the judge said it’s now likely the trial won’t be until September. Hassan recently fired his lawyer and hired two others with a different strategy.”
YLE reports on a web site reportedly owned by American Nazi Gary Lauck that is calling for “calls for the murder of leading Finnish politicians as well as immigrants”
Finland: “Racist Site Wants Finnish Leadership Dead”
— YLE reports on a group Tarkea tiedoitus Suomalaisille
— YLE states: “The National Bureau of Investigation is examining an online hate site that calls for the murder of leading Finnish politicians as well as immigrants. The Finnish-language site is registered to a long-time American neo-Nazi.”
— “The anonymous author behind the site’s writing is suspected of illegal threats and the incitement of hatred against an ethnic group.”
— “The site calls for the hanging or shooting of much of the Finnish political leadership, including President Tarja Halonen and Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. The site also featured a hit list of 50 Finns, named for their role in promoting multiculturalism.”
— “The site is registered to an American named Gary Lauck, a neo-Nazi who became known in 1980s and 90s for smuggling neo-Nazi literature into Europe. Lauck, who served time in a German prison in the late 1990s, later moved his propaganda online.”
— “Göran Wennqvist from the National Bureau of Investigation says it’s been difficult to trace the site’s administrator. Finnish police officials have cooperated with US authorities in the case.”
