Firefight Breaks Out At Radical Mosque Between Cops And Vigilante Gang Trying To Impose Sharia Law In Pakistan’s Capital
Jul 3 04:45 AM US/Eastern
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Shooting broke out at a radical mosque in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad on Tuesday after students clashed with police deployed there.
Students from the Lal Masjid mosque opened fire on the police and paramilitary rangers, who fired tear gas at crowds near the mosque, according to a photographer for The Associated Press. One trooper was killed.
A man used the mosque’s loudspeakers to order suicide bombers to get into position.
“They have attacked our mosque, the time for sacrifice has come,” the man said.
Police official Mohammed Asif said two officers were injured and a cleric at the mosque said one student suffered a bullet wound.
Authorities have been at loggerheads with the mosque for months over a land dispute and after student followers of its radical clerics began a vigilante-campaign to impose their version of Islamic law in the capital.
The students have carried out a string of kidnappings of police officers and alleged prostitutes and have threatened suicide attacks if security forces intervene.
Hundreds of police and paramilitary rangers have taken up position near the mosque in recent days.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said last week that he was ready to raid the mosque, but warned that suicide bombers from a militant group linked to al-Qaida had slipped into the building.
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I had a roomate in the mid nineties from pakistan,he came here to join the U.S. Marines. When he was in boot camp I sent him a letter that looked like secret orders saying operation bomb pakistan. He wrote back, Ha Ha, very funny, seriously there are alot of fucks deserve gettin bombed in pakistan…..
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:34 pmThe rather sympathetic article in Time to which the above blog is related is clearly misplaced. Destruction of property and kidnapping by these sanctimonious “students of Islam” is something that is not tolerable in any open society.
Congrats Time, sharia is closer than you think.
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:54 pmmuslim have the only seminarians who recieve ak 47 and bomb making training with their holy books.
pervez should start whipping ass before he loses his power.
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:18 pm