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.
I assume by the time I write my replie only body counts will be the official activity.