Pakistan troops storm Islamabad mosque: military

afp ^ | 09/07/2007 | afp

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PA officer: ALHAMDULILLAH- INAALILAHU-WARAGAUM (FOR ALL BRAVE FALLEN SOLIERS)

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29 Mujahids have been wounded. 5-6 dead.

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Showing a triage list, many bullet injuries, blunt trauma, many PA choppered to Rawalpindi. NOw: lots of white smoke/steam. Probably firefighters are able to enter compund to put out fires. At least 60 empty gurnies waiting in triage.

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there were 2 spec op teams, one to attack mujahid and one to secure hostages.

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Gas was used in the operation

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It’s getting medieval...which is what Al-Queda wants....

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50 Militants have been killed.

Small arms fire has resumed.

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Now more black smoke, white steam gone, small arms fire.

[Valin]

Human Shields Escape Pakistan Mosque

http://tammybruce.com/2007/07/human_shields_escape.php

Those human shields, btw, are children.

The world should have a rule: if you’re inside a so-called “holy building” but you have guns, are holding children as human shields, and have threatened to kill people, the “holy” part of that building is null and void. Just an idea.

Oh, and the “cleric” in charge of the terror was also using his own mother as a shield. As one would expect, she’s dead and he’s not. Surprise.

Children run for life from radical mosque in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, July 10 (Xinhua) — Some 20 children escaped from the compound of a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital Tuesday during firing between the militants in the mosque and security forces, the military said.

“Twenty children have managed to escape during the fire. An intense engagement is going on with the militants,” said military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad.

A major operation was launched early Tuesday against the hardline militants in the defiant Lal Masjid mosque in the Pakistani capital after failure of talks, the military said.

Loud explosions were heard after the operation launched. Children running out of the mosque are with the troops now, local TV quoted the military as saying. Maulana Adbul Rasheed Ghazi, the defiant cleric still inside the mosque, claimed that his mother was killed in the operation.

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Mujahid in basment of Jamia Hafsa. willing to fight till death. a warning has been given again

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Ghazi is not arrested, just made another call, claiming many hostages, may flood the basement with water, fire fighters in the compound

[Billthedrill]

If the hostages are out it’s time to back off and bring in the bombers. Then the bulldozers. Then one last appeal for surrender. In that order.

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pumping gas into the basement of Jamia Hafsa, 75% secured, steady small arms fire

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2 minute time out, call for surrender

[Shermy]

English news conference on AAJ now

[montag813]

3 years after his boys dragged charred American bodies through the streets, I am still waiting for Bush to order us into Al Sadr’s mosque and kill him.

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PA commander: resistance continues in basement, 40 militants killed, 24 captured, no info on ghazi, 20children escaped, minarets are not cleared yet, many hand grenades, militants well trained,

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Unable to find women hostages. At least 100 women, mainly school girls were known to be inside.

[SoldierDad]

Great news to go along with the successes of the surge in Iraq.