Red Mosque siege declared over

The Red Mosque stand off has ended with the Pakistan military scoring a victory. Abdul Rashid Ghazi met his demise. Ghazi’s death did not spark an anti-Musharraf rebellion in Pakistan as many Islamists had hope; it merely ended the siege of hate-monger radicals at the Red Mosque.

JRH 7/11/07
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Red Mosque siege declared over

Declan Walsh in Islamabad
Wednesday July 11, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Pakistan's prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, declared the Red Mosque siege over today, saying that government forces had regained full control of the compound after a 36-hour assault. "The operation is over. Everybody who was inside is out," Mr Aziz said. There had been "pretty reliable and accurate intelligence" about the mosque compound prior to the assault, but the security forces were still surprised by the ferocity of the resistance.

"These were trained, hardcore militants," he said.

A senior government official added that a number of foreigners - Uzbeks, Chechens, Tajiks and Afghans - had been arrested and were undergoing interrogation. Mr Aziz also said that the number of casualties had been much lower than expected. "We have not found any body of a woman or child yet," he said. "The government's policy ... has been vindicated.

"Now we will do the mopping up." But with the security forces restricting access to local hospitals, the government's refusal to release an updated official death toll added to fears that the actual number of READ THE REST ...

Pakistani troops move on mosque

LAL MASJID = RED MOSQUE

It looks like the Pakistan military is preparing to move on the Red Mosque. This probably means there will be a bloody outcome that includes indoctrinated children.

Here is a “Red Mosque” update:

JRH 7/9/07
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Pakistani troops move on mosque


BBC NEWS
Last Updated: Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 00:40 GMT 01:40 UK


Troops in the Pakistani city of Islamabad have stormed the Red Mosque, after talks with radicals broke down.

"It is a final push to clear the place of armed militants," said military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad.

There had been hopes that an agreement would be reached to end the stand-off, but a government team abandoned their efforts early on Tuesday.

Twenty children have escaped from the mosque, where women are also being held, as the assault continues.

Talks reportedly broke down over the militants' demand for an amnesty for all inside the mosque.

The government wants to detain a number of people on a wanted list, and also a number of foreigners whom it says are inside.

"I am returning very disappointed," said former PM Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, after talks conducted by loudspeaker and mobile phone with mosque leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi.

"We offered him a lot, but he wasn't ready to come on our terms," said Mr Hussain.

Students at the Red Mosque and its attached religious schools have been defying the authorities for several months in their campaign for Sharia law in the capital.

Security forces began their siege of the mosque a week ago, not long after students there abducted seven Chinese workers they accused of running a brothel.

On Monday, three Chinese workers were killed in Peshawar in an attack said to be linked to the unrest in Islamabad.

There is speculation that Islamic militants may be targeting Chinese people in Pakistan.

Women and children

After initial explosions, there is now intermittent gunfire around the mosque, says the BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad.

She says ambulances are waiting nearby to help any wounded.

Religious affairs minister Ejaz-ul-Haq, one of the negotiators who tried to reach an agreement, has described those in charge at the mosque as "hardened terrorists".

At least 21 people have died since fighting erupted when the army surrounded the mosque last Tuesday, including an army commander shot dead inside the mosque on Sunday.

Mr ul-Haq said women and children had been locked up on two floors of the Jamia Hafsa religious school, which is attached to the mosque.

As many as five "hardcore terrorists" were inside the mosque, he added, saying that one person killed on the first day of the siege belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammad, an outlawed radical Muslim organisation which has been linked to al-Qaeda.

Mosque leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi has denied the presence of any banned extremist groups.

He says those inside are students of his religious school and he is in charge.

Abdul Rashid Ghazi has said as many as 1,800 followers remained in the mosque, although this cannot be verified.

Earlier, Mr ul-Haq said up to 250 militants - including foreign radicals - were leading the fighting.

More than 1,000 supporters left last week under mounting pressure from security forces, although only about 20 have left since Friday.

The Islamist ‘Red Mosque’ of Islamabad and Child Indoctrination

It is said by the politically correct and by Mohammedans that the majority of the religion of peace is “moderate” as opposed to radical Islamist. I have read statistics that the overwhelming amounts of Mohammedans both in the West and in the Mohammedan lands are moderate in nature. I am not going to cite those statistics because I don’t feel like looking for them; however I need to point out that the so-called Islamist minority still numbers (guessing) in the tens of millions. That is a lot of crazy Mohammedans.

Now here is something for Westerners and so-called moderate Mohammedans to think about. The children of the moderates are schooled in their religion in Mosques or madrassas. Overwhelmingly the children are taught Islamist ideology and not the so-called moderate portion of Mohammedanism.

In the West and America most Mosques and separatist Mohammedan communities receive educational literature from Wahhabi-Sunni Saudi Arabia or Shi’ite Iran (disseminated via front organizations including terrorists like Hezbollah).

It takes a media outlet that has been branded as right wing and therefore not part of the Mainstream Media (MSM) to report how a radical Islamist has indoctrinated children to the point that they have vowed on the Quran to die as martyrs - WorldNetDaily. The incident is Abdul Rashid Ghazi of the Islamist “Red Mosque” in Islamabad is being sought due to an assassination attempt on Pakistan’s President Musharraf. Ghazi is willing to sacrifice 1800 children in a fight to death.

The “Red Mosque” operates two madrassas in which the children have been totally brainwashed in the tenets of the Theo-political death cult and are actually being armed and telling their parents they are prepared to die as martyrs for Allah. Ghazi is a Taliban sympathizer.