Posted on 07/05/2007 9:49:44 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Updated at 1630 PST
ISLAMABAD: A full-fledged commando operation has been launched at Lal mosque, the sources said.
Intense cross firing between the Law Enforcing agencies and students of Lal mosque has been started and the explosions have rocked the Islamabad.
The commando operation has been codenamed as “silence operation.”
The commandoes and the Rangers have also taken control of the office of Environment ministry beside the Lal mosque.
Meanwhile, Chairing a high level meeting, president General Pervez Musharraf has directed the Law Enforcing authorities involved in Lal mosque operation to display maximum restraint to ensure safe evacuation of the maximum students from Jamia Hafsa.
Earlier, after passing of the deadline given to the Lal Masjid administration for surrender, security forces had cordoned off the mosque complex in Islamabad.
The parents of female students in Lal Masjid, have appealed he president to further extend the deadline. They said their girls have nothing to do with the stand of Lal Masjid administration and they were enrolled in the seminary to get education.
The administration had given 12:30 deadline to the students entrenched in the mosque. They were advised to leave the mosque immediately otherwise they would themselves be responsible for any harm.
The ministry of interior had announced curfew break from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm in Sector-6 of Islamabad, however the break has not been applied to the area around the Lal Masjid.
Stringent security measures were taken around the mosque with large number of security men in the area.
According to the officials over 1000 male students and 400 girls of Madrassah have surrendered before the authorities.
In another development, Maulana Abdul Aziz’s wife Umme Hassan talking to Geo News denied reports of her arrest and said she was present in the mosque.
“..students of Lal mosque..”
I hope that the INS makes sure that none of these “students” have a US immigration visa.
Janet Reno knows how to handle such matters. I wonder if Musharrraf has called her for advice?
The silence before the kaboom?
Action underway!
“silence operation” ?
hmmmmm.
Red Mosque students after their surrender. Fresh clashes erupted at Pakistan's besieged Red Mosque, where "terrorists" were said to be holding women and children as human shields despite calls from its captured leader to surrender.(AFP/Farooq Naeem)
A religious student, left, chats with a paramilitary officer after his surrender outside the Lal masjid, or Red Mosque, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, July 5, 2007. Several explosions rang out near the radical mosque besieged by security forces, hours after its top cleric was captured trying to sneak out of the complex under a woman's burqa. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
Good name for this .....action.
Chief cleric of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque Maulana Abdul Aziz is seen in Islamabad Thursday, July 5, 2007 in this image made from TV. The captured leader of the radical mosque conceded Thursday that the nearly 1,000 followers still inside the government-besieged complex will not be able to hold out for much longer, indicating the standoff would end without violence. (AP Photo/Pakistan Televison)
More likely they are rushing to offer them "Asylum", complete with visas, housing assistance and of course health care.
“Janet Reno knows how to handle such matters. I wonder if Musharrraf has called her for advice?”
Instead of “silence operation” we could blast loudspeakers with music to go along, allah Clinton Reno...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
I hate when my hairy legs betray me like that. He said.
Charles Manson looks like a nice guy compared to this “Chief Cleric”.
It is not these type of people that give me the shivers; it is the ignorance of our federal government that continues to invite them into the country and coddle them. We have plenty of these dudes in the country already. All we have to do now is to wait for our own Red Mosque affair.
As he bravely ran away!
I suspect any Pakistani woman coming out of that Mosque in a buraq would have hairy legs too.
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