Monday, July 09, 2007

DAR AL ISLAM - PAKISTAN: ABDUL RASHID GHAZI, HARD LINE CLERIC OF LAL MASJID, EITHER DEAD OR CAPTURED

Commandoes reach room of mosque militant leader (Extra)

Islamabad - The leader of militants holed up in a Pakistani mosque may have been killed or apprehended as security forces stormed his compound early Tuesday.

Hard-line cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi was speaking to a local news channel when forces apparently arrived at his location in the Red Mosque compound in central Islamabad.

'Commandos are at the door of my room,' he told Aaj news channel, before the connection was lost. It was not clear whether he was arrested or killed.

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1) Commandoes reach room of mosque militant leader (Extra)

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