Fighting Ends at Pakistan Mosque

Pakistani troops cornered holdout Islamic militants and combed the warren-like Red Mosque complex for booby traps Wednesday after assaulting the compound and killing its pro- Taliban cleric, the army spokesman said.Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad said only a "very few" militants were still resisting and that combat operations would soon end. But he said clearing the compound of mines, booby traps and other weaponry could take some time."The whole area has to be sanitized," he told a news conference.Arshad said three of the remaining die-hard defenders were killed overnight and troops were meeting resistance in just "one or two places" of the sprawling compound in the heart of the Pakistani capital.More than 50 militants and 10 soldiers have been killed since the assault began early Tuesday, including the mosque's pro-Taliban cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the army said.Commandos went in after unsuccessful attempts to get the mosque's militants to surrender to a weeklong siege mounted by the government following deadly street clashes with armed supporters of the mosque July 3.The 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.More than 80 people have been killed overall since the violence began.
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