Is it Basiij or Baseej?; either way, these paramilitaries are as dangerous as Blackwater/Xe

Very good blog from Channel 4 reporter "A day in Iran I will never forget," by
Lindsey Hilsum|Posted: 11:33 am on 16/06/09

• Just before we went on air, we manged to obtain – and I won’t say how – pictures of a terrible scene of violence which had just occurred as dusk fell. People – who knows if they were real protesters or agents provocateurs – attacked a base of the basiij, the paramilitary shock troops of the Revolution. They set fire to the place shouting “You killed our brothers, now we’ll kill you.” People hate the basiij, and this assault was a shocking manifestation of that. The basiij shot into the air and then into the crowd. A man fell, dead; his body was pulled away.
• As I write this morning, I have no idea what today will bring. The violence which broke out at the end of the day was a terrible contrast with the peaceful protest we had seen earlier. I don’t know how many died, but certainly now people are being killed and injured.
• The protesters say they will come out on the streets again today. Who knows what will happen now?