centerhill condor
07-07-2007, 01:18 PM
President Pervez Musharraf told Islamist militants barricaded in a mosque on Saturday to surrender or die, while concern grew for hundreds of women and children inside the besieged compound in the Pakistani capital.
Hundreds of troops have surrounded the fortified compound housing the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, and a girls' madrasa, where clashes between armed students and security forces began on Tuesday following months of tension.
"If they don't surrender, I'm saying it here, they will be killed," Musharraf said in his first public comments on the deadly stand-off in Islamabad.
The death toll rose to 20 after a paramilitary soldier was shot dead on Saturday morning, though the cleric leading Lal Masjid's Taliban-style movement said casualties were higher
no democrat bleedin' heart BS here! the path to victory starts with the right attitude.
Hundreds of troops have surrounded the fortified compound housing the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, and a girls' madrasa, where clashes between armed students and security forces began on Tuesday following months of tension.
"If they don't surrender, I'm saying it here, they will be killed," Musharraf said in his first public comments on the deadly stand-off in Islamabad.
The death toll rose to 20 after a paramilitary soldier was shot dead on Saturday morning, though the cleric leading Lal Masjid's Taliban-style movement said casualties were higher
no democrat bleedin' heart BS here! the path to victory starts with the right attitude.