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1 posted on 07/10/2007 9:46:35 AM PDT by Ghayyour

“Mr Ghazi denied the presence of any banned extremist groups. He said those inside were students of his religious school.”

Same thing.

2 posted on 07/10/2007 9:48:34 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)

Abdul Rashid

Islamabad, July 10 (PTI): Radical cleric, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who headed militants inside the pro-Taliban 'Lal Masjid' in a tense week-long stand-off, was today killed along with 88 of his associates when Pakistan troops stormed the premises to flush out heavily-armed hardliners holding a large number of women and children as hostages. Twelve commandos were also killed during the 'Operation Silence', launched at 04:00 hrs after talks with radicals to resolve the stand-off peacefully failed. At least 88 militants, apart from Ghazi, were killed in the operation, Dawn News TV quoted defence officials as saying. Forty-three-year-old Ghazi, the younger brother of the captured head of the Lal Masjid Maulana Abdul Aziz, was killed by security forces in the basement after he refused to surrender, Interior Ministry spokesman, Brig. Iqbal Cheema, told the media here, nearly 16 hours after the operation was launched. There were reports that Ghazi was holding women and children as human shields, some of whom were said to have been killed. THE HINDU (PTI input)

3 posted on 07/10/2007 9:50:25 AM PDT by voice of india (Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall i fear ?)

...is the punchline, “A damn good start!”?

5 posted on 07/10/2007 9:59:37 AM PDT by Ignatz (Did you know that before the internal combustion engine, there was no weather at all?)

Pervez sure does hate to have his airplane shot at!

7 posted on 07/10/2007 10:30:10 AM PDT by Redbob (WWJBD -"What would Jack Bauer do?")

Pakistani rebel cleric 'killed'

What's with the Irony Quotes around 'killed'?

Was he not really killed, but someone wanted to make it appear that way? Maybe he was allowed to escape, but they 'found' a body. Maybe he was captured and turned over to Mossad, but it was politically better for him to have been 'killed'.

9 posted on 07/10/2007 10:46:53 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (A base looking for a party.)

He didn’t try and sneak out dressed as a woman? I thought that was SOP for the satan followers?

10 posted on 07/10/2007 10:55:25 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))

12 posted on 07/10/2007 11:11:59 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)

To the author: Why the cutesy quotes? Is there some question over whether the word "killed" is the correct one?

I think some writers use quotation marks the way some speakers use "ummm....."; it's a space filler for times when you don't know what else to do.

17 posted on 07/10/2007 1:30:49 PM PDT by TChris (The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)

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