Religion of Peace Fights Bloody Battle In Pakistan
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:24 am
Over this sacrilege might we be treated to the same world wide protests as met Salman Rushdie? Fatwas issued from the bully pulpit? Denunciations from the Sword of the Infidel-Slayer mosque? The mute silence from the highest echelons of Muslim society is truly deafening, proving yet again when Muslims slaughter their own with so high a death toll as 150 civilians like yesterday's Iraq market bomb, it's KOSHER.
Daily Telegraph
The chief cleric of the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad has been killed after Pakistani special forces launched a bloody assault on his compound.
The body of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who earlier had predicted that his “martyrdom was certain”, was discovered in a basement this afternoon.
Around fifty of his Islamist followers have also been killed in the offensive to reclaim the mosque, which the Pakistani authorities say is now 90 per cent complete. But hundreds of women and children are thought to be still holed up in underground bunkers, as the last remaining militants mount a desperate defence.
Pakistani commandos stormed the mosque compound before dawn today in an attempt to end an eight-day stand-off between militants and the government. Troops fought house-to-house as they battled their way through the mosque complex as militants and radical students returned fire from among the minarets and debris.
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Daily Telegraph
The chief cleric of the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad has been killed after Pakistani special forces launched a bloody assault on his compound.
The body of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who earlier had predicted that his “martyrdom was certain”, was discovered in a basement this afternoon.
Around fifty of his Islamist followers have also been killed in the offensive to reclaim the mosque, which the Pakistani authorities say is now 90 per cent complete. But hundreds of women and children are thought to be still holed up in underground bunkers, as the last remaining militants mount a desperate defence.
Pakistani commandos stormed the mosque compound before dawn today in an attempt to end an eight-day stand-off between militants and the government. Troops fought house-to-house as they battled their way through the mosque complex as militants and radical students returned fire from among the minarets and debris.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... pak410.xml