THE head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a stand-off with security forces was arrested today while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, officials said.The arrest of Abdul Aziz, chief cleric of Islamabad's Red Mosque, was a major coup for the Government.But two earlier bomb attacks on security forces in another part of the country that killed 12 people raised fears militant supporters of the mosque were hitting back.Nearly 700 radical Muslim students based at the besieged mosque surrendered today, a day after bloody clashes outside the mosque.
Aziz tried to slip out among women from a mosque school, who all wear black, all-enveloping burqas.“He was trying to escape wearing a burqa. He was caught at the checkpoint where women leaving the mosque have to register as some policemen found his appearance suspicious,” deputy city administrator Chaudhry Mohammad Ali said...
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PS:So much for a gutless guy that sends others to kill themselves in the name of "jihad"...Pitiful.....
As in the days of Noah....