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  Is There A Liar In The House?July 19, 2007 Proof-positive that Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf was correct in having his military storm the “Red Mosque” and kill a bunch of Islamic militants is the resulting outcry from a bunch of: lying MSM types, lying Clerics and...lying Militants (if this isn’t being redundant). In fact, liars seem to be at the top of the Muslim world’s demographic base. As the Washington Post summed-up the after-battle... A day after Pakistani commandos killed the last Islamic militants barricaded inside the Red Mosque complex, the army guided journalists around the shattered masonry and blackened interiors Thursday amid...

AL-QAEDA’S leadership secretly directed the Islamic militants whose armed revolt at the Red Mosque in Islamabad ended last week with more than 100 deaths after it was stormed by the Pakistan army. According to senior intelligence officials, the troops who finally took control discovered letters from Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. They were written to Abdul Rashid Ghazi and Abdul Aziz, the brothers who ran the mosque and adjacent madrasah. Government sources said up to 18 foreign fighters � including Uzbeks, Egyptians and several Afghans � had arrived weeks before the final shootout and set up firing ranges to...

Pakistan struggles to contain Red Mosque fury By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad Last Updated: 2:05am BST 14/07/2007 Hardline protesters burned effigies of Gen Musharraf shouting 'Long live the martyrs' President Pervez Musharraf's regime sought to reassure Pakistan's Muslim clergy yesterday as the authorities tried to contain public anger over the siege of the Red Mosque. Minor protests took place in cities across the country. The regime is braced for an Islamist backlash after commandos stormed the mosque and killed about 100 people. Protesters burned effigies of Gen Musharraf and President George W Bush, shouting "Long live the martyrs" and "Musharraf...

Excerpt - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Thousands of troops were deployed to Pakistan's northwestern frontier to try to dissuade outlawed Islamic militants from launching a holy war against the government for its bloody attack on a radical mosque, military officials said Saturday. Troops were sent Friday to at least five areas of North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan and where militant groups are increasingly active, a military officer said. "With help from local tribal elders, we are trying to ensure that militants lay down their arms, and stop issuing calls for jihad against the government," said a senior military official who...

The bullet-riddled walls and roofs of the Red Mosque's interior tell the story of a fierce battle. The mosque, located in a central district of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, was stormed by troops two days ago to clear out Islamic militants holed up inside. The government says 10 soldiers, one policeman and 75 militants were killed in the fighting and the week-long standoff that preceded the final assault. For six months, the halls and rooms of Jamia Hafsa, a women's seminary inside the mosque, were home to a new breed of Islamic hardliners - women clad from head to toe...

The Pakistani army says it has found 73 bodies inside a mosque compound in Islamabad, after fierce battles between soldiers and gunmen inside. Officials said the Red Mosque, or Lal Masjid, complex had been cleared of militants but troops were combing the area for booby traps and explosives. The mosque's radical chief cleric, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, was among the dead, the army said. The operation followed a week-long siege of the compound by troops. The mosque had been the focus of spiralling tensions between the government and radical students, who had waged a campaign for the adoption of strict Islamic...

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's deputy leader issued a video Wednesday calling for Pakistanis to wage a holy war against their government in retaliation for the attack by Pakistan's army on the Red Mosque in Islamabad. Ayman al-Zawahri's 4-minute, 24-second address focused entirely on the clashes between Islamic students and Pakistan's army at the mosque. The video was released by al-Qaida's multimedia branch, as-Sahab. Its authenticity could not immediately be confirmed, but two U.S.-based terrorism monitoring groups also reported it.

July 9, 2007: In Afghanistan, even the radicals are having problems with their radicals. The Taliban are undergoing something of a civil war, and it's all about tribal traditions. The Taliban, on both sides of the border, are basically political manifestations of traditional Pushtun tribal culture. That is, very conservative, especially when it comes to the treatment of women and in religious matters. Not all Pushtun tribes share the very conservative attitudes espoused by the Taliban. In fact, the reason why the Taliban is now a struggling minority is because so many more moderate (or less radical) Pushtun tribes have...

Islamic militants in Pak. set afire offices of aid agencies Karachi, July 10 (PTI): Enraged Islamic militants set on fire offices of two international aid agencies working in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province today in retaliation to the military action against militants in the Lal Masjid. Local residents said that around 100 people, some of them armed, had come down from villages in the mountains surrounding Batgram town near Mansehra and attacked the offices of 'Care International' and the 'French Red Cross' and set the big tents on fire. The aid agencies were working in the area for the survivors...

Pakistan's army says an operation to flush out militants from a mosque in Islamabad is in its final stages - 24 hours after troops stormed the complex. Several explosions were heard after dawn on Wednesday and sporadic gunfire. During heavy fighting on Tuesday, the Red Mosque's militant cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi and some 50 of his supporters were killed, the army said. Students at the mosque and its attached religious schools have waged a campaign for months pressing for Sharia law. On Tuesday, eight soldiers also died, and some 50 women and children were freed. Pakistan's military spokesman Gen Waheed...

Pakistan's army says an operation to flush out militants from a mosque in Islamabad is in its final stages - 24 hours after troops stormed the complex. Several explosions were heard after dawn on Wednesday and sporadic gunfire. During heavy fighting on Tuesday, the Red Mosque's militant cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi and some 50 of his supporters were killed, the army said. Meanwhile a few days ago Top cleric captured in a burqa at besieged Pakistan mosque

Islamabad - Pakistani security forces were placed on high alert Tuesday to deal with a growing backlash by Islamic extremists and members of the general public over the storming by troops of Islamabad's Red Mosque and adjoining religious school. Thousands of people, some of them armed, took to the streets in cities in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Three bombings apparently carried out in retaliation for the mosque operation also killed a policeman and injured several more in the province, news reports said. 'Security has been further intensified all over the country, including in Islamabad,...

A militant Pakistani cleric and about 50 of his supporters have been killed after troops stormed a mosque in Islamabad, government officials say. Abdul Rashid Ghazi's body was found in the Red Mosque basement. Officials said he had been caught in the cross-fire. The army says eight soldiers were also killed in the military operation, and about 50 women and children rescued. Students at the mosque and its attached religious schools have waged a campaign for months pressing for Sharia law. Public anger in the capital had been mounting after they kidnapped policemen as well as people they considered to...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A radical cleric whose besieged mosque sought to impose strict Islamic morality on the Pakistani capital was killed Tuesday after refusing to respond to troops who demanded his surrender, officials said. About 50 militants and eight soldiers died when the military stormed the sprawling Red Mosque compound. Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the public face of the pro-Taliban mosque that challenged the government's writ in Islamabad, had vowed to die rather than give himself up. An army official said Ghazi had received bullet wounds and when he was told to surrender, he gave no reply. Commandos then fired another...

ISLAMABAD, July 10 (RIA Novosti) - At least 40 Islamic militants have been killed as troops stormed the besieged Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) compound in Islamabad early Tuesday in a bid to end a tense weeklong standoff. Pakistani Army spokesman Gen. Waheed Arshad said troops entered the mosque after last-ditch talks failed to persuade the nearly 1,000 students inside to surrender. "Three soldiers were killed in the assault," he said, adding that about 20 children had been rescued from an adjoining school. A delegation led by former Prime Minister Chaudry Shujaat Hussain had attempted to negotiate a peaceful end to...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani troops raided Islamambad's Red Mosque on Tuesday and attempted to flush out the remaining militants entrenched inside a women's religious school in fierce fighting that left at least 50 militants and eight soldiers dead, the army said. He said the army attack was now focused on the women's school but that some militants were still firing from the tops of the mosque's minarets. He said the entire compound included 75 rooms, large basements and expansive courtyards.

Attack of the red Mosque: “of the corpses everywhere” ISLAMABAD - “Corpses” strew the basement with the fundamentalist red Mosque of Islamabad where an attack was in progress Tuesday in order to dislodge of islamist marked to retain hostages, a source inside the building, questioned by telephone by AFP indicated. “There is no contact between us because nobody can leave the parts and the basements. There are corpses everywhere”, indicated a man answering one of the many portable telephones of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, chief of the irreducible ones. Ghazi is still in life but his/her mother died, specified the...

Troops storm Pakistan mosque compound By ZARAR KHAN, Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Troops stormed the compound of Islamabad's Red Mosque at dawn Tuesday, prompting a fierce firefight with militants accused of holding scores of hostages, officials said. At least 20 rebels and three soldiers were killed. Amid the sounds of rolling explosions, commandos attacked from three directions and quickly cleared the ground floor of the mosque, army spokesman Gen. Waheed Arshad said. Some 20 children who rushed toward the advancing troops were brought to safety, he said. Well-trained militants armed with machine guns, rocket launchers and gasoline bombs...

AT least 10 militants have been killed and another 15 injured in a commando raid today on a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital, the military said. “We have reports of ten militants dead and 15 injured,” Major General Waheed Arshad told a private television channel.

Pakistani troops early Tuesday launched a massive operation against a cleric and his armed men in a besieged Islamabad mosque after negotiations failed, a top military official told AFP. "The troops are now inside the mosque, they are at the roof top," top military spokesman Major General Arshad Waheed told AFP."It is a final push to clear the place of armed militants," he said, adding that the militants were putting up stiff resistance.The talks between the Pakistani government and a cleric holed up with armed men at the mosque failed early Tuesday after he refused to release women and children...