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RedMosqueExplainer070715.appHeader = "Fact file | The Red Mosque siege";
RedMosqueExplainer070715.appDeck = "On July 11, Pakistani government forces sieged the Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, ending an eight-day standoff with the militants who had been using the compound as a training site. Below are the key details of the seige.";
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RedMosqueExplainer070715[i-1].body = "The Red Mosque, located in Pakistan's capital city, Islamabad, is a compound that includes separate religious schools for girls and boys.
Extremists had been using the mosque as a base to send out radicalized students to enforce their version of Islamic morality, including abducting alleged prostitutes and trying to “re-educate” them at the compound.
Students at the mosque’s male and female schools ranged in age from as young as 4 to their early 20s. The female school also housed some widows and children left homeless by the 2005 earthquake that killed more than 80,000 people in northern Pakistan.";
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RedMosqueExplainer070715[i-1].body = "Government forces had surrounded the compound following deadly street clashes with armed supporters of the mosque on July 3. On July 11, Pakistani elite Special Services Group commandos sieged the Red Mosque after unsuccessful attempts to get the mosque’s militants to surrender during the eight-day standoff.";
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RedMosqueExplainer070715[i-1].body = "Pakistan's government says 102 people died in the violence, including 91 civilians and 11 military personnel. But some Pakistanis say they believe the government is trying to cover up a far higher death toll.
According to the latest official figures, 248 people inside the sprawling complex were wounded.
The Islamic extremist militants' leader, pro-Taliban cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, was killed during the fight.";
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RedMosqueExplainer070715[i-1].body = "1,300 people, including men, women and children, escaped or otherwise left the compound after the army siege began, according to the government
Pakstani President Pervez Musharraf, who already faces a backlash for his attempt to fire the country’s chief justice, may have public opinion further turned against him
Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, released a video calling on Pakistanis to join in a holy war to avenge the army assault, telling them Musharraf “rubbed your honor in the dirt.”
Extremists have called for a holy war to revenge the Red Mosque attack, and on July 15, suicide attackers killed scores at a police headquarters and military convoy in Pakistan's northwest, disavowing a 10-month old truce with the government.
Also on July 15, authorities in Islamabad detained Shah Abdul Aziz, a National Assembly member from an alliance of religious parties, for allegedly inciting people against the government during the Red Mosque siege. Aziz, who told a local television station that he had done nothing wrong, was among a delegation of ministers and religious scholars who attempted without success to peacefully resolve the standoff.
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RedMosqueExplainer070715[i-1].body = "Security forces storm radical mosque in Pakistan's capital. Click here for images.";
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