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Wednesday's raid in Sadr City targeting a so-called "secret cell" of Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army was a reminder that even as they press their campaign against al-Qaeda aligned Sunni militants, U.S. forces are ramping up operations against what they see as a more serious long-term threat: Shi'ite militias supported by Iran. The attack killed, by the U.S. military's count, 30 men allegedly involved in receiving weapons and training from Iran. Attacks of that scale in the militia's stronghold are not unheard of, but they are rare. Since the two sides declared...
They renamed the mosque Lal Masjid - that is, the Red Mosque - after the seminary in Islamabad where dozens of radical young students died last month in a military raid ordered by President Pervez Musharraf. "We took over the mosque [to protest] against Islamabad's action against the religious seminaries," declared Usman, a young man wearing a balaclava, when I visited last week. I could feel the anger in his brown eyes...
...Mosque Raid Aryn Baker's "Among the Believers" was amazing and the most human account of the radical Islamic students' standoff at the Red Mosque in Islamabad that I have read so far [July 16]. I was truly amazed by the correspondent's unshakable ability to stay objective and present a clear picture of those who are completely devoted to their faith. I was raised as a Lutheran, a faith that was once perceived as a radical reformist movement with fanatic followers. I was very moved by Baker's story. Peteris Timofejevs-Henriksson, Brussels...
...Raid in the Name of Allah Aryn Baker's "Among the believers" was amazing and the most human account of the radical Islamic students' standoff at the Red Mosque in Islamabad that I have read so far [July 16]. I was truly amazed by the correspondent's unshakable ability to stay objective and present a clear picture of those who are completely devoted to their faith. I was raised as a Lutheran, a faith that was once perceived as a radical reformist movement with fanatic followers. I was very moved by Baker's story. Peteris Timofejevs-Henriksson, BRUSSELS...
...Mosque, in central Islamabad, which has become a symbol of the extremist anti-Musharraf movement in the country. Government forces stormed the mosque in early July to dislodge hundreds of armed militants who had assembled there to call for the implementation of Islamic law in Pakistan. The raid, though eventually successful, left dozens of people dead and sparked a wave of attacks across the country against government security forces...