Posted on 07/09/2007 11:10:33 PM PDT by HAL9000
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 source, without revealing her name. “She died in the first attack. She died of smothering” because of the smoke caused by the fires and the explosions, added the man.
AP & Reuters Reporters = collateral damage?
Commander Killed In Pakistan (Red) Mosque Siege
The Telegraph (UK) | 7-8-2007 | Isambard Wilkinson
Posted on 07/08/2007 9:24:30 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862782/posts
Pakistan troops storm Islamabad mosque: military
afp | 09/07/2007 | afp
Posted on 07/09/2007 8:26:04 PM EDT by mdittmar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863304/posts
Militants killed in Pakistan mosque raid
news.com.au | 10 July 2007
Posted on 07/09/2007 10:31:59 PM EDT by Aussie Dasher
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863371/posts
Troops storm Pakistan mosque compound
Yahoo News/AP
Posted on 07/09/2007 11:31:50 PM EDT by nuconvert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863403/posts
It's not that mosques are sacred. It's that Muslims get upset if non-Muslims attack a mosque. Screw 'em
Here is hoping that Mushie and his government survives this. Its gonna be hell if Pakistan goes Islamofascist.
Hope he has a plane ready and his Swiss bank account filled up...
I understand the ROE in Iraq permit firing on a mosque if Ally Forces are fired upon from the mosque. That is the middle of the road compromise for now. I don’t think that proscription was in place during WWII. If I understand those who fought that war in Europe, they generally tried not to bomb where it didn’t help, but that, on the ground, they did not wait to be fired upon from a church. They did what they had to do. I think God or Allah would excuse some rubble to prevent something far worse.
It bought him some time. If he weren’t nimble he wouldn’t have lasted this long. One thing he can count on, the internal fractious enemies can’t be unified with each other, so as long as he can make nice with the outliers, he can handle the stuff closer to the core. That’s what he’s doing.
I can't imagine trying to survive in the politics of Pakistan.
When you compare the post-colonial experiences of India and Pakistan, it sure makes the odds of a stable, democratic Muslim country look long.
It’s possible to have a stable Moslem country, and it’s possible to have a democratic Moslem country, but to have a stable, democratic Moslem country has been achieved once — in Turkey — and a half — in Egypt. Calling Egypt a democracy is a slight exaggeration. :’)
LOL!
And, in Turkey's case, the Army has intervened periodically to keep things on track. That would have to end, however, if Turkey is ever to succeed in breaking into the EU.
Perhaps, but it is a constitutional role that the Turkish army plays, in order to protect secularized gov’t. Ending that and wanting the Moslem do-rag forced down the throat of Europe is the reason this borderline Islamofascist gov’t wants Turkey in the EU so badly.
I used to be a big supporter of Turkey, as a U.S. ally and for the E.U., until the Islamist government and their double-cross on giving the 4th I.D. transit rights to Iraq.
Likewise, at least regarding the current gov’t of Turkey.
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