ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 11, 2007

At Least 106 Dead In Pakistan Mosque Siege

Al Qaeda No. 2 Al-Zawahri Asks Pakistanis To Wage Holy War Against Their Government In Retaliation

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    • Pakistani protesters shout slogans against President Pervez Musharraf's government to condemn the operation against militants who hold Islamabad's Red Mosque on July 11, 2007, in Peshawar, Pakistan.

      Pakistani protesters shout slogans against President Pervez Musharraf's government to condemn the operation against militants who hold Islamabad's Red Mosque on July 11, 2007, in Peshawar, Pakistan.  (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)

    • Anjem Choudary leads a demonstration of fundamentalist Muslims against Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in front of the Pakistani Embassy in London on July 11, 2007.

      Anjem Choudary leads a demonstration of fundamentalist Muslims against Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in front of the Pakistani Embassy in London on July 11, 2007.  (CBS/Tucker Reals)

    • Pakistani police officers escort detained family members of the chief cleric of Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz to an anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 11, 2007.

      Pakistani police officers escort detained family members of the chief cleric of Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz to an anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 11, 2007.  (AP Photo/Khurram Butt)

    • Abdul Rashid Ghazi, a Pakistani Islamic cleric and vice principal of Islamic school

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    • Pakistani paramedics rush an injured militant who was inside the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, on stretcher to emergency ward of a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, on July 10, 2007.

      Pakistani paramedics rush an injured militant who was inside the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, on stretcher to emergency ward of a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, on July 10, 2007.  (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Choudary's hardline group advocates Sharia, or Islamic, Taliban-style rule, for Pakistan and across the Muslim world. "As Muslims, we abide by the Sharia, even if the government doesn't. It is our responsibility to make sure it is implemented. We follow the Prophet Mohammed, not Musharraf."

To the idea that it was the people of Pakistan's responsibility to instigate change in the way the country was led by political means, Choudary said: "We don't believe in those concepts of Democracy and liberalism … It's not about the majority, forget the minority and majority."

Though Choudary's views mirror those espoused by radical Islamic groups around the world, he conceded that Pakistan was not likely to fall to a Taliban-style government any time soon.

"That is what we are striving for," he said. Choudary said his group did not endorse militant action in the West, but that if extremists came from Pakistan to attack London, the blood would be on the hands of the British government, and "we cannot be held responsible."

In Afghanistan, a senior Taliban commander, Mansoor Dadullah, urged Muslims to launch suicide attacks on Pakistani security forces, calling the assault “a cruel act.”

“I would have sent 10,000 mujahedeen to support the (Red Mosque) students but we are busy in Afghanistan and Islamabad is far from Afghanistan. I wished to go myself to support them,” he told The Associated Press by telephone.

Several editorials in mainstream newspapers said Musharraf had no choice but to confront the militants.

“The decision to launch the final assault was not an easy one, but given the circumstances there was nothing else that the government could really do,” said the English-language paper The News.

But it questioned how the militants had managed to find a haven “inside the heart of Islamabad.”

“Surely this is a disturbing indictment of the failure of the law enforcement agencies to keep track of the movement of such elements,” it said.

Another English-language daily, Dawn, said that “no tears will be shed over the death of the well-armed militants,” praising the government for exercising “utmost restraint” in the standoff.

The State Department endorsed the Musharraf government's decision to storm the mosque, saying that the militants had been given many warnings, and President Bush reaffirmed his confidence in the Pakistani president in the fight against extremists.

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by lars008-2009 July 12, 2007 12:39 PM EDT
name one fascist nazi terrorislam state that grants equal rights to non muslims???
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by gunnerv1 July 12, 2007 11:02 AM EDT
eggy 1620 There can be no compareson between waco and ruby ridge to thes freaks Especially ruby ridge. He was NOT a white supreamist, he was a white seperatist, there is a huge differance.
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by gunnerv1 July 12, 2007 10:57 AM EDT
Good, 106 less that we will have to kill somewhere else!
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by zootallures2 July 12, 2007 4:15 AM EDT
Shake these filthy apes from the trees, deport them back to the cesspool they came from. They are hateful freaks, sick psychos with no respect for human life. Ugly beak nosed, goat fu(king, a$$ wiping, child raping, woman beating scum of the earth.
Posted by ArabzRfilth at 11:48 PM : Jul 11, 2007

You can sub-divide yourselves till next year. You can go by foot size even. Use what ever fantasy excuse or deversion you want, but it's all humans. Try... HumanzRfilth.
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by arabzrfilth July 12, 2007 2:52 AM EDT
Jabbering yabbering finger wagging fist shaking pub1c hair faced IDIOTS.

NOW CAN WE NUKE THESE MOTHER FU(KING PSYCHOS OFF THE FACE OF OUR EARTH???

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by arabzrfilth July 12, 2007 2:48 AM EDT
Shake these filthy apes from the trees, deport them back to the cesspool they came from. They are hateful freaks, sick psychos with no respect for human life. Ugly beak nosed, goat fu(king, a$$ wiping, child raping, woman beating scum of the earth.
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by lars008-2009 July 12, 2007 1:22 AM EDT
Posted by patriotic9 at 09:55 PM : Jul 11, 2007

name one fascist nazi terrorislam state that grants equal rights to non muslims???

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by patriotic9 July 12, 2007 12:55 AM EDT
NOW CAN WE KILL THEM???
Posted by lars008 at 09:37 PM : Jul 11, 2007

Bush answered your question and is killing US troops deployed in Iraq by US TAX DOLLARS and US WEAPONS which he is giving to an IRANIAN BASED ISLAMIC RADICAL "MALIKI" in the name of REBUILDING IRAQ and ARMING IRAQI SECURITY FORCES.

lars

Do you support MULLAH BUSH in the klling of our finest men and women in Iraq by our own tax money and our own weapons?

Do you think HOMOSEXUALS have the right of MARRIAGE just like HETEROSEXUAL CITIZENS or you believe in discriminationg against them just like your fellow ISLAMIC RADICAL BROTHERS and ISLAMIC RADICAL "JESUS"?

Do you think women should have the right to choose ABORTION or you oppose their right just like your fellow ISLAMIC RADICAL BROTHERS especially ISLAMIC RADICAL "JESUS"?
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by susanhelit July 12, 2007 12:51 AM EDT
Boy - flashbacks of Waco. A cult based on a religion tries to set itself up as not needing to follow the laws of the government, commits crimes harming the innocent, then when the gov't does what they have to do after negociations fail, people second guess, saying that maybe we could have gone easier on them.

Simple rule in any country at all - if you try to set yourself up as the law, the government isn't going to like it. If you involve other innocents (Waco it was the children, here it was those kidnapped off the street for a violation of the cultists's laws), any decent government will step in and take you out.
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by lars008-2009 July 12, 2007 12:17 AM EDT
NOW CAN WE KILL THEM???
If they can kill us, we can kill them

Qaeda warns of attacks 'worse than 9/11'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1

Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out 'Martyrdom' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907

Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp

But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.

"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.

Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.

The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml
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by patriotic9 July 11, 2007 11:55 PM EDT
Great job Musharraf!!!!
These RADICAL MUSLIM TALIBANS got what they deserved. They were guilty of forcing women to quit prostitution as a prefession just like their RADICAL CHRISTIAN TALIBAN BROTHERS in United States who want to make Prostitution ILLEGAL and force women in United States not to practice their right of choosing it as a profession.

We need MUSHARRAF in United States.

RADICAL CHRISTIAN TALIBANS deserve same fate just like their RADICAL MUSLIM TALIBAN brothers by the hand of MUSHARRAF.

I have a dream today. One day United States will be a country of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY like Sweden, Denmark, etc. Homosexuals will not be desicriminated on the basis of their SEXUAL ORIENTATION (VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS), they will be allowed to marry just like the HETEROSEXUAL POPULATION. Women will be allowed to be TOPLESS in public just like men. They won't be thrown into prison in the name of INDECENT EXPOSURE for the same action totally decent for men(GENDER BASED DISCRIMINATION).

World poses great danger in the from RADICAL ISLAM.

We can not defeat RADICAL ISLAM unless we crush and destroy root of RADICAL ISLAM named CHRISTIANITY.
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by sevenveils July 11, 2007 9:20 PM EDT
Ayman al-Zawahri is now asking people to wage war on his host. His host that has left him virtually alone with his thoughts and army. Now it's time to kick that stinking fish out of the country.
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by eggy1620 July 11, 2007 5:48 PM EDT
*** like this and that camp in Lebanon would be happening in the U.S. if the Feds had not acted so decisively, and correctly, at places like Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas.
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by ban_islam July 11, 2007 5:46 PM EDT
Posted by lfitts1

well said
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by eggy1620 July 11, 2007 5:42 PM EDT
That was no mosque. It was an armory.
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by lfitts1 July 11, 2007 5:29 PM EDT
Choudary's hardline group advocates Sharia, or Islamic, Taliban-style rule, for Pakistan and across the Muslim world. "As Muslims, we abide by the Sharia, even if the government doesn't. It is our responsibility to make sure it is implemented. We follow the Prophet Mohammed, not Musharraf."

To the idea that it was the people of Pakistan's responsibility to instigate change in the way the country was led by political means, Choudary said: "We don't believe in those concepts of Democracy and liberalism %u2026 It's not about the majority, forget the minority and majority."


And we want to instill democratic governments into this area and we wonder why it is not working...hmmmm...the Islamic fundamentalists do not respect democracy, free speech, majority rule or minority rights--go try and negotiate with these groups
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