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Fears children are mosque shields
CNN.Com / world ^ | 7/5/07 | CNN

Posted on 07/05/2007 11:38:04 AM PDT by F15Eagle

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Fears are growing that women and children are being used as human shields at a mosque besieged for two days by Pakistani government troops, 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 Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque on Thursday said those inside the mosque believed security forces would try 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 a basement 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 according to Reuters.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globaljihad; humanshields; islam; muhammadsminions; muslimwomen; news; pakistan; trop; waronislamism
Fears children are mosque shields

And this surprises ...? Didn't they watch the Intifada that Arafat started against Israel in 2000? This is nothing new. Or is the world just *now* waking up?
1 posted on 07/05/2007 11:38:05 AM PDT by F15Eagle
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To: F15Eagle

Muslim Body Armour.


2 posted on 07/05/2007 11:41:32 AM PDT by agere_contra
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I say we take off and nuke ‘em from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.


3 posted on 07/05/2007 11:41:43 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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And CNN is what? Maybe trying to prevent the outright destruction of the mosque? I say no more apologies. I don’t want to see women and children killed, but you do what is necessary...or you lose.


4 posted on 07/05/2007 11:42:15 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: F15Eagle

In the Iran-Iraq war, Iran made children run through minefields in advance of their troops. This reveals what Muslims think of children.


5 posted on 07/05/2007 11:42:33 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: VRWCmember

Boy I tell you what. I can understand how that likely will eventually happen.


6 posted on 07/05/2007 11:44:56 AM PDT by F15Eagle (1Tim 1:4; Gal 1:6-10; 1Cor 2:2; Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34-35; 2Thess 2:11; Jude 1:3)
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Fears are growing that women and children are being used as human shields at a mosque besieged for two days

So kill them. Whose children do they think they are anyway? (hint: "militants"). Once you kill them, there are no more bargaining chips.

7 posted on 07/05/2007 11:45:04 AM PDT by montag813
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You know, we fire-bombed Dresden. It's a real shame that our enemies now (somewhat rightly) think that they can successfully hide behind women and children.

They should be strongly disabused of that notion.

8 posted on 07/05/2007 11:45:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
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To: F15Eagle

What you said.


9 posted on 07/05/2007 11:45:53 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: F15Eagle
They should just raid the damn mosque and get this over with

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

10 posted on 07/05/2007 11:48:06 AM PDT by expatguy (Support - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: VRWCmember

Maybe we should lend them one of those high power sound trucks that makes people puke.


11 posted on 07/05/2007 11:48:18 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Monet should have been smothered as a child." Pablo Picasso)
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To: F15Eagle

1. NO BURQUAS
2. SINGLE FILE EXIT
3. KILL ALL THE MALES


12 posted on 07/05/2007 11:59:05 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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The israelis blast them with Celine Dion music. Remember when palestinian terrorists locked themselves up in the church in Bethlehem? The Israelis started blasting Celine Dion music at them. Worked like a charm. Surrender within a few days.


13 posted on 07/05/2007 12:12:13 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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Children feared used as shields in Pakistan mosque
Reuters | 7/5/2007 | Faisal Aziz
Posted on 07/05/2007 10:59:34 AM EDT by tobyhill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861209/posts


14 posted on 07/06/2007 10:44:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Wednesday, July 4, 2007.)
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