‘Foreign fighters’ in Red Mosque
BayBak, Azerbaijan | Sunday, 8th July , 2007 , 17:16 [pm] | International
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. | More than 1,000 supporters left last week under mounting pressure from security forces, although only about 20 have left since Friday.
No power The commander who died on Sunday was in charge of an operation to blow holes in the mosque compound walls to enable civilians to escape. Water and power to the mosque |
Pakistan’s religious affairs minister has said foreign Islamic militants are among those inside a besieged mosque in the capital, Islamabad.
Ejaz-ul-Haq said “terrorists… wanted within and outside Pakistan” are fighting the army, which has surrounded the Red Mosque since last Tuesday.
An army commander was shot dead by students inside the mosque on Sunday.
The mosque’s leader, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, said he and his followers would commit suicide rather than surrender.
At least 20 people have been killed since the stand-off began.
Mr Ghazi told the BBC as many as 1,800 followers remain in the Lal Masjid mosque, although this cannot be verified.
‘Surrender or die’
Speaking at a news conference, Mr ul-Haq said up to 250 militants - including foreign radicals - were leading the fighting.
He said between two and five of them were wanted in connection with “high-profile cases”.
The BBC’s Syed Shoaib Hasan, who is in Islamabad, says there are reports that militants from an outlawed radical Muslim organisation, Jaish-e-Mohammad, are in actual control inside the mosque.
Members of the group have been involved in several failed attempts on the life of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, and it has also been linked to al-Qaeda.
On Saturday, President Musharraf told the students they had no option but to surrender.
“We have been patient. I want to say to the ones who have been left inside: they should come out and surrender, and if they don’t, I am saying this here and now: they will be killed,” he said.
More than 1,000 supporters left last week under mounting pressure from security forces, although only about 20 have left since Friday.
No power
The commander who died on Sunday was in charge of an operation to blow holes in the mosque compound walls to enable civilians to escape.
Water and power to the mosque have been cut off and food is said to be getting scarce.
Our correspondent says he has heard intermittent gunfire in the area and the boom of heavy weapons.
An increased military presence on the streets, combined with the refusal to let a delegation of Islamic figures through to the mosque, suggests that the government is now closing the door to negotiation, our correspondent adds.bbc
, Voice of a Nation==========
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mullah cimoc say this a perfectly good example of the cia’s domination of pakistan.
please scan: inside the company, a cia diary by phillip agee for an introductory course in subversion of nations, except the satanic forces are even more skilled now.
the usa is self destructing both psychologically and physically as the women of the ameriki becomes whores taking the LBT (low back tattoo) and making the sex with every man, while killing their children through mass abortions.
ameriki’s son is now the gay homosexual, to the pride of his divorced and sexually diseased parents.
fear not my friends as the wicked always get their reward. Musharaff will die the death of Hezekiah, his organs rotting from the inside out. It will not be pleasant. His family will be exterminated to the fourth degree of blood relations. this to include even the second cousin.
for truth: stop1984now@yahoo.com