Posted on 07/05/2007 7:59:34 AM PDT by tobyhill
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Fears mounted that women and children were being used as human shields at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital on Thursday, as hundreds of militant students ignored a plea from their captured leader to surrender.
Pakistan's Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan said the few students who had quit the mosque on Thursday had spoken of a nightmare scenario for security forces trying to keep casualties to a minimum.
"A large number of women and children are being held hostage by armed men in a room," Khan told a news conference, adding that the brother of the captured cleric was hiding in the basement of an attached madrasa with 25 "women hostages."
"Yes, they're using them as human shields, because the people who have come out, they told us that they're telling women and children not to worry because as long you're here forces will not attack us," he said.
In an interview broadcast earlier on state television, the leader of the Red Mosque's Taliban-style student movement, caught the previous evening trying to escape wearing a woman's burqa, said 850 students remained inside, including 600 women and girls.
Abdul Aziz, clad in a woman's all-enveloping garment like the one he was caught in, began the interview by dramatically lifting the black veil to reveal a face dominated by a bushy grey beard.
He said only 14 men were armed with Kalashnikovs in the Islamabad mosque, though an Interior Ministry spokesman put "hard core elements" between 30 and 40, and a senior paramilitary officer reckoned there were 100 armed men.
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Typical.
They have cut off the food, water, and electricity. They should just wait around for a couple of days.
yeah , like this is something new
WTF Women and children shields are their MO!
Truly satanic!
We need a series of commercials called “Real Men of Islam” patterned after the Bud commercials.
“...the leader of the Red Mosque’s Taliban-style student movement, caught the previous evening trying to escape wearing a woman’s burqa, said 850 students remained inside, including 600 women and girls.”
How can Aziz know how many females are in the mosque, as they are all sure to be wearing burqas? It is more likely there are NO females in the mosque, but there are 600 men dressed in burqas.
These “people” (rabid animals is more appropriate) are the most pathetic cowards on the planet!
They should bring Janet Reno over there.
“..women and children were being used as human shields at a besieged mosque in Pakistan’s capital..”
What else is new?
yes, typical mohmammadian caravan raider morality— women and children are just excess baggage.
Destroiy the place. Once the use of human shields is shown not to protect them from being attacked and killed, tehy’ll stop doing it. Not because it’s immoral, but becauase it will hve been rendered ineffective.
...and with rape being one of the favorite male mooselimb’s pastimes, quickly replacing those women and children will never be an issue, right?
And anyway, there’s nothing a woman can provide a momo that his camel can’t.
So, if Elton John converts to the ROP, what will he be?
Pervez Musharraf, the beloved and preferred leader of the world as declared by John Stewart and his following, should be able to put a wrap on this right away.
Oh wait, He doesn’t really disagree with this hostage thing, does he ?
Very interesting.
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