This one?
Posted on 07/06/2007 6:17:42 PM PDT by indcons
Pakistani forces fired at a fuel tank inside a controversial mosque early Saturday, causing an explosion heard across the capital, intelligence sources said.
The fuel tank had been used for running generators in the besieged mosque, the sources said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Shortly after the blast, gunfire erupted again between the radical Islamic students inside the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, and the Pakistani security forces outside. The four-day siege has resulted in at least 26 deaths.
The latest confirmed deaths were two students who tried to surrender Friday but were shot dead by other students, intelligence sources said. The sources gave no additional details of how the shootings occurred.
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Al Pinga
Possibly, it is coming to an end.
Cover story. I bet they hit the mosque’s magazine.
well . . if you have to have an explosion, a mosque is as good a place as one might think of for one
One word: Waco
You might well be right. The entire basis for Pakistan’s existence is Islamic fundamentalism (of the worst sort). In fact, the country’s name when translated from Arabic means “Land of the Pure [Muslims].”
As I pointed on a different thread, using madrassas to train jihadists to fight in foreign wars (like Kashmir, Kosovo, etc.) was a leading instrument of Pak. foreign policy (till well after 9/11). The Frankenstein’s monster created by Musharaff, Aslam Beg (former ISI chief), and Zia ul Haq (former dictator and architect of the jihadi policy in S. Asia) is eventually going to destroy Pakistan from within.
Breaking news: Pakistan:Taliban says Americans are killing kids in mosque
OPINION-SPECULATION: Yes, one way or the other.
Facsinating.
I was taught, Pakistan, was an abreviation.
After the Brits left, the name was akin to the population.
Pashtun, Afghan, K**** (Kurds?) and Indians. PAKI stan
Am I wrong?
The name Pakistan was first used in 1933 and can be interpreted as meaning the land (-stan) of the religiously pure (pak), but is said to have suggested itself to a group of expatriate students at Cambridge, Eng., from the initial letters of Punjab, Afghania (Northwest Frontier province), Kashmir and Sind with the termination from Baluchistan.— 1966 Britannica.
Unfortunately, that explanation is wrong. The main ethnic components of Pakistan are the
1. Sindhis (the first people in that region to be forcibly converted to Islam by the Arabs) Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister, is a Sindhi.
2. Punjabis (who occupy one half of the original Indian state of Punjab - the western half; the most powerful in the ethnic hierarchy. Not to be confusd with Punjabis in India, who are not Muslim) Gen. Zia-ul-Haq was a Punjabi.
3. Baluchis (semi-tamed tribes from the Baluch region)
4. Pakhtoons/Pashtoons/Pathans (totally untamed barbarians from the Afghan/Pakistan border region)
5. Mohajirs (muslim migrants from India post the 1947 partition. Fanatical muslims who aren’t considered “muslim enough” by the other 4 ethnic groups...LOL) Gen. Musharaff is a mohajir.
As you can see, there aren’t any Kurds in that region and the Indians (Hindus and Sikhs mostly; some Christians) were mostly killed or chased out after muslim-orchestrated genocides during the 1947 partition.
I appreciate the correction.
I mean it.
JJ
Bump.
I guess my history teachers were sort of correct.
Thanks.
This one?
David Koresh wasn’t running berserk through the neighboring town, beating people with sticks because they were religious enough.
Not making apologies for Korsesh or anyone else. The thing is, the militants in this mosque viewed themselves as the vangard of the “talibanization” of Pakistan. They were marshalling all the students to march through town and beat anyone not Islamic enough. They were basically taking over the town with their own laws.
Eventually foreign countries started complaining and now the militants are getting the showdown they want.
I love it when a fuel tank inside a mosqe is fired on and explodes!!!!!!!!!!
:):):)
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