Global: Indymedia's Internet Servers Confiscated

Before the FBI seized their computers last week, Indymedia had tangoed with FBI agents over the photo of undercover Swiss police published on one of its sites, its activists had been involved in a September court case on electronic voting machines and, it had had an unpleasant encounter with the Italian riot police in 2001. While it is still not clear if the confiscated computers have anything to do with any of these incidents, analysts also find it curious that the seizure came just one week before Indymedia's Communication Rights and Tactical Media Productions event which is scheduled to run parallel to the European Social Forum.