Wednesday, July 11, 2007

MUSHARRAF DOES THE RIGHT THING: 106 KILLED IN MOSQUE ASSAULT

YAHOO/AP:
President Pervez Musharraf's government said Wednesday that militants accounted for most of the 106 people killed in eight days of fighting around the Red Mosque, calling it a signal that Islamic extremism won't be tolerated in Pakistan.

Hours later, Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader released a video to join in the militant outcry against Musharraf, calling on Pakistanis to join in a holy war to avenge the army assault. Ayman al-Zawahri told Pakistanis their president "rubbed your honor in the dirt."

Authorities said the siege of the mosque compound, which included separate religious schools for girls and boys, resulted in the deaths of 10 soldiers, one police ranger and several civilians killed in the crossfire of the initial street battles that erupted July 3.

Seventy-three bodies — believed to be those of the mosque's die-hard defenders — were found by Pakistani troops clearing the sprawling complex of mines, booby traps and other weaponry after the final 35-hour fight. Among the dead was the militants' leader, pro-Taliban cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi.

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said commandos searching the mosque found no corpses of women and children, although seven or eight of the bodies had been burned beyond recognition, apparently by the militants' gasoline bombs.
If the US military had done this to Sadr in 2003 it would have ALSO been right - and condemned by the Muslim world, the Left and the UN.

If the IDF had done this to the terrorists holed up in the Church in Bethlehem, it would ave also been right - and been condemned by the Muslim world, the Left and the UN.

The present battle between the Lebanese military and the AQ terrorists in that "refugee camp" also proves that Lebanon can also "gets away with" doing the right thing.

WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD!?

WHY ARE THE USA AND ISRAEL HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD THAN THE PAKISTANI, AND LEBANESE MILITARIES? Doing so is anti-American and anti-Semitic.

We are in the beginning stages of a global war - one that our enemy wants to make into an existential global war. We should be as ruthless as necessary. It's entirely in keeping with American values and the actions of previous GREAT American war-time presidents: FDR and Truman would have been more like Musharraf than Bush.

AND ANOTHER THING: I think this proves ONCE AGAIN what I have blogged over-and-over: that Musharraf is a good ally. Most hawkish bloggers have complained about him and his Waziristan deal. I think it was okay and that he's the best we can hope for over there. THIS UNAMBIGUOUS ASSAULT ON THE RED MOSQUE PROVES IT.

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