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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: shrine

shrine stories: 2 news summaries

Red Mosque Inspires Clone

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

Jul 30, 07 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 that was destroyed by Pakistani... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Red Mosque • Islamabad • shrine • Lakarai

13 Dead in Red Mosque Blast

Islamist students occupy Islamabad mosque -- again

Jul 27, 07 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 siege that ended in more... More »

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Pakistan • jihad • Red Mosque • Lal Masjid • Islamabad • bomb • shrine

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