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73 bodies recovered from Pakistan mosque complex (Extra)
Jul 11, 2007, 18:47 GMT
Islamabad - Pakistani forces that stormed Islamabad's Red Mosque and adjoining religious school have recovered 73 bodies during a continuing search of the secured premises, a military official said late Wednesday.
The remains were passed to the city administration, army spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told the Dawn television news channel. Several bodies were burned beyond recognition, he added.
After more than 30 hours of fighting against heavily-armed followers of two radical cleric brothers that ran the complex, troops took control of the site mid-Wednesday after eradicating the last pockets of resistance.
With scores or even hundreds of religious students still unaccounted for, the death toll was expected to climb during the search of the seminary's dozens of rooms, corridors and basement that were fortified in recent weeks.
Talking to the Aaj private television channel, a close associate of President Pervez Musharraf, Industry Minister Jehangir Khan Tareen, said there were between 150 and 250 bodies at the site.
But he said there were no women and children among the victims, despite claims by the mosque defenders that many innocent non-combatants were trapped there during a week-long siege that preceded the assault.
Musharraf ordered the operation against the complex after talks broke down with clerics early Tuesday. One of brothers was captured trying to escape last week while the other died during the fighting.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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Sure must be a lot of virgins up there!
250 men * 72 virgins/man = 18,000 virgins who are going to have get penetrated by those Islamofacists unfortunately! Where are they going to get all those virgins? Maybe that's why they attack innocent people... Not everyone is willing to have sex with toddlers like Muhammad (little toddler virgins be with him) so they have to recruit by killing older virgins. Would someone let them know that their are no virgins in New York City?
That is why they can commit all kinds of sins in this world, from lying like Pope or oral sex like President Clinton, or hypocricy like Tony B-LIAR or have no mral code like other western leaders.
Oral sex is a sin?
No wonder you monkeys are always so pissed off.
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Zyskandar A JaimotJul 11th, 2007 - 21:42:16
WOW MUSHARRAF protects PAKISTANIS by killing militabts at a mosque-no-less and the 'NATIONAL ^SSHOLE MEDIA' will probably be all over his 'case' for being a GUN-CRAZY-THUG-OR-WORSE??? MUSHARRAF should come to the U.S.A. maybe he could 'clean-up' SOUTH L.A. or maybe those 'good' MUSLIMS in MICHIGAN??? Or what about those MUSLIMS who wanted to 'ice' the U.S.ARMY at FORT DIX - maybe he could come here and settem' straight??? What's that DICK'the-U.S.ARMY-are-the-same as-Nazis'DURBIN, HARRY'the-surge-is-not-workin'REID, BARFBRA'know-nothing'STREISAND are objecting to MUSHARAFF's brutal methods??? What's really brutal is the 'media' actually reports-rather-pimps what these DEMBHOLES(operant/relevant portion of words ^SSHOLES+DUMB-DEMOCRATS=DEMBHOLES) have to say???!!!
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