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13 Dead in Red Mosque Blast

Islamist students occupy Islamabad mosque -- again

By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 27, 2007 8:57 AM CDT

(Newser) – Thirteen people were killed today by a bomb that rocked a hotel near the Pakistan's Red Mosque after Islamist students occupied the shrine—again—demanding the release of the mosque's pro-Taliban cleric. Workers had just finished repainting the mosque, in the wake of the bloody... Read full story »

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