July 07, 2007
"If they don't surrender, I'm saying it here, they will be killed," Musharraf said, in his first public comments on the deadly stand-off in Islamabad.Hundreds of troops have surrounded the fortified compound housing Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, and a girls' madrasa, where clashes between armed students and security forces began on Tuesday following months of tension.
The death toll rose to 20 after a paramilitary soldier was shot dead on Saturday morning, though the cleric leading Lal Masjid's Taliban-style movement said casualties were far higher. There were unconfirmed accounts of the mosque's defenders burying more bodies on Saturday.
Explosions have blown holes in the outer walls of the compound, and fierce gunbattles have raged, but there has been no assault. Officials reckon 50 to 60 hardcore militants are leading the fighting.
"We've shown great patience because we don't want people to be killed," Musharraf told reporters while visiting flood-hit Baluchistan province. "We could have done everything. The government has the power but there are women and children."
Mosque cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi has said he would rather choose "martyrdom," and has rejected government accusations that he is holding women and children as human shields.
Ghazi said he and his followers would lay down their weapons but would never accept arrest. "I fully stand by my position, there's no question of arrests," Ghazi told Reuters, speaking over the crack of rifle fire.
My prediction: Ghazi and his brave band of "freedom fighters" will follow the example of their captured leader Abdul Aziz and try to escape wearing burquas, leaving the women and children to face martyrdom.
Update: Brainwashed children plead to die as martyrs in Red Mosque siege
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Posted by: Darth Vag at July 07, 2007 01:46 PM (b0FZu)
Step (2): Add pepper gas to the mix on day 2.
Step (3): Use sharpshooters to use tranquilizer gus to shoot every exposed person with a long-acting tranquilizer dart.
Step (4): Use tanks with wall-breaching blades to simply drive through the mosques walls. Drive in, keep going, drive out the other side. Keep doing this until the Mosque falls down.
Step (5): Keep doing all these things at once until there is just a pile of rubble, with a bunch of gassed, stoned, homeless people standing on top of it. Use sharpshooters to shoot anyone who has a gun.
Step (6): Bring in fire department ladder trucks and hose down eveyone who is still standing amidst the rubble until they give up.
Step (7): Machine gun the remaining fanatics, they're irredeemable anyway.
Posted by: DemocracyRules at July 07, 2007 02:19 PM (PnMRH)
Kill them all -- spare none, because if you do, they could be the next suicide-killer.
Posted by: Richard Romano at July 07, 2007 02:49 PM (iD1fP)
Posted by: greyrooster at July 07, 2007 03:56 PM (7Fl3v)
Darth Fag: Nuke the country to get a couple hundred extremists. Idiot! Perhaps we should nuke your ghetto to get a couple hundred black muslims.
Posted by: greyrooster at July 07, 2007 04:23 PM (2f4mu)
Gheyrooster: I bet if you tried to nuke it, you would miss and that would generate some extremists. And I don't believe anything you say about your family. In fact, I bet you are confabulating to save face. You post more messages (and bitter ones at that) than anyone else here... obviously you have a fair amount of time on your hands to post such bitterness in spite of being the happy patriach you describe. Liar... you must be a lonely loser.
Posted by: Darth Vag at July 07, 2007 04:44 PM (b0FZu)
Posted by: Michael Weaver at July 07, 2007 07:06 PM (2OHpj)
http://politicallywhat.blogspot.com/2007/07/rage-boy-toy.html
Posted by: the Boodge at July 07, 2007 07:09 PM (cJ/6M)
Oh, that is funny! It would be even funnier if it really blew up after you-know-what.
In other news, a sad day for jihadis everywhere:
243 goats die after big-rig overturns in San Rafael
Posted by: Vicki at July 07, 2007 07:24 PM (1qyaJ)
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Posted by: greyrooster at July 07, 2007 09:01 PM (5hpD3)
Posted by: Darth Vag at July 07, 2007 09:38 PM (b0FZu)
Hmm, wondering...
Posted by: Richard Romano at July 07, 2007 10:30 PM (iD1fP)
Posted by: DemocracyRules at July 07, 2007 10:35 PM (PnMRH)
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