Pakistan army storm militant mosque

Pakistan has long been noted for hosting a whole slew of radical Islamofascistic Madrassa schools, often associated with a mosque. In this case, their toleration for one of these centers in their capital has been exhausted.

Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday and big blasts and sporadic gunfire rang out over the city after talks to end a week-long standoff with militants broke down.

Twenty children escaped from among hundreds of women and children believed to be inside the mosque-school complex, but the militants – some holed up in basements with guns, grenades and gasoline bombs – were putting up fierce resistance, the military said. “An intense engagement is going on in the madrasa complex between militants and the security forces,” said military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad.

Of course these exemplars of the peace of Islam are fully equiped with women and children who are acting as human shields, except that the Paki army doesn’t seem to be playing that game. War is hell.