Attack of the red Mosque of July 2007

The Assaut of the red Mosque of July 2007 was ordered by the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf following a rising of the Islamiste S which control the mosque, located in the capital of the Pakistan, Islamabad. It made a hundred deaths.

Context

Since the beginning of the year 2007, the red Mosquée is the seat and the source of tensions very sharp between the islamist radicals, close to Al-Qaida, which are installed there, and the government. Spectacular actions (Auto-da-fe, emission of Fatwa against a minister, etc) and violent (sequestration and violences on people having a behavior considered to be “immoral”, removal of seven nationals Chinese), were carried out since this mosque. The ultimate objective being introduction of the Charia to the Pakistan.

The tension crosses a threshold in July 2007, weapons are flights by students of the mosque to security agents. Following that, the Pakistani president, the general and chair Pervez Musharraf makes the decision of launching an military operation against the occupants of the mosque and the Madrassas, which then include men, women and children. Being wary of ISI, the secret services Pakistani, and of their connection with the islamist ones (the central head office of the ISI is very close to the Red Mosque; certain members of the ISI came there to request, while the brothers directing the mosque are very close to the ISI. Moreover, one discovered under the mosque, after the attack, a secret signal center whose wire were connected to the HQ of the ISI.

During several days of face to face and sporadic confrontations, of the attempts at conciliations on behalf of the government or of the religious delegations of local Oulémas took place. The besieged last refuse to go and announce being loans to be fought “until martyrdom” and indicate that many women and children remained with them “of their full liking”. Regarding these women and these children as human shields, the authorities push back as much as possible the final attack, fearing a blood bath.

The attack is given by the soldiers Pakistani the July 10th 2007 at dawn. They had to proceed with precaution because of the risk for the hostages and met a strong resistance. The attack, which lasted two days, made a hundred deaths. The islamist ones had built tunnels and Bunker S, and held Lanceurs of rocket S and automatic weapons.

Abdul Rashid Ghazi, second leader of the mosque, was killed at the time of the final attack. The circumstances of its death are obscure: according to certain sources, it would have been cut down by others rebellious whereas it tried to go to the soldiers Pakistani, other testimonys certify that it died in shootings crossed in the attack of the mosque, others still say it dead by carrying out a “last-ditch struggle”, shot down by the Pakistani forces.

Following the attack, number 2 of Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called the Moslems Pakistani with revenge and the holy war.

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