Kashmir Update.
Mosque, what mosque? That's a jihadi stronghold.
http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/04june11/news.htm#1
Both holed up militants killed
Mosque siege ends in Kulgam
SRINAGAR, June 10: About 30-hour long mosque siege in a Kulgam village ended today with security forces claiming that both the holed up militants got killed. While as villagers insist that the mosque suffered extensive damage in the gun battle, security forces said that there was "minimal damage" to the two-storyed Jamia mosque structure. Meanwhile, villagers in Tral area took to streets and staged angry protests after Army soldiers "mistook" two peasants for militants and fatally shot one of them while injuring the other, early this morning.
As already reported troops of BSF 52 Bn had cordoned Bogund village the other day in the afternoon. As the troops zeroed in on a house, suspected as militant hideout, militants came out firing indiscriminately at them. BSF troopers returned the fire and in the ensuing exchange of fire, a BSF soldier, identified as Birinder Singh and a militant got killed. In the meantime, two militants had taken shelter in the central mosque of the village and the siege around it continued for the whole night.
Informed sources in south Kashmir told the EXCELSIOR that, intermittent firing between the holed up guerillas and the troops of BSF 52 Bn and Ist RR continued for whole of the night. Sources said that in the wee hours today, the exchange of fire intensified.
According to these sources, as the gun battle was continuing the mosque caught fire.
In the ensuing gun battle, a defence spokesman said, both the holed up militants were killed. He said that dead body of one militant was recovered and the search was going on to locate the body of the other militant.
Locals told the visiting mediapersons that security forces used mortar shells and heavy gunfire, which set ablaze the mosque. They insisted that the structure was extensively damaged in the gun battle. Victor Force spokesman, however, told the EXCELSIOR over telephone that there was "very minor damage" to the mosque. "One of the (holed up) militants tried to lob a hand grenade which got blasted inside the mosque and set afire a portion of the mosque," he said. He claimed that militant intercepts suggested that the slain militants owe allegiance to the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HUJI) outfit.
BSF’s DIG operations, Prithvi Raj told a local news agency, KNS that the security forces observed "utmost restraint" to protect the mosque. "Mosque suffered damage as holed up militants tried to lob hand grenades which exploded inside," he said. Raj told the news agency that BSF would re-construct the mosque.
http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/04june11/news.htm#3
4 members of cops family killed
JAMMU, June 10: Militants last night massacred four members of a family including an infant in their house at village Shorafiri in the upper reaches of Morha Jamsalan, about 15 kms from Mahore in Udhampur district last night.
Two members of the slain family were police constables, who had reportedly persuaded one of their cousin Abdul Rashid to surrender before the security in Reasi early this month.
Official sources said a group of three to four militants forced their entry into the house of Abdul Rahim in the mid-night and opened indiscriminate firing on the house inmates killing all four of them on spot.
quite correct. Every mosque we allow to be built on Western soil is like allowing a barracks for the enemy to be built. The Moo slums believe that once a mosque has been built then that land is Muslim for eternity, forget about what came earlier.