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Red Mosque Inspires Clone

Pakistani Militants take over another mosque, name it after scene of bloody siege

By Heather McPherson, Newser User

Posted Jul 30, 2007 8:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Red Mosque has become a franchise: pro-Taliban militants have occupied a different shrine in northwestern Pakistan and renamed it after the Islamabad mosque where 102 people died after a protracted siege. The fighters also promise to build a girls' seminary to replace the one... Read full story »

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