IRAQ: 250 KILLED Aug.14, 2007 – Three suicide bombers driving explosive-laden tankers killed at least 250 civilians in northern Iraq, and wounded more than 200, near the town of Sinjar.

Such killing and maiming of non- combatants and civilians are routine and daily episodes enacted in the Iraqi Hell. It is obvious that such anarchists have no relationship with Islam. While the fight is supposed to be with the Ameri- can aggressors and pirates, those mas- querading as Muslims are murdering their own kith and kin. The Hadith of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) applicable to this evil situation is: “The killer and the killed will be in the Fire.” Also: “The killer will not know why he kills, and the killed will not know why they are being killed.”

“What is clear is that the US has already suffered a strategic defeat in Iraq. A flagrant act of aggression in- tended to be a demonstration of un- trammelled US imperial power to im-
pose its will on the heart of the oil- producing Arab and Muslim world has instead demonstrated a fatal vulner- ability to “asymmetric warefare”. It’s also true that, as a senior US intelli- gence officer told the Washington Post this week, “The British have basically been defeated in the south”. Far from keeping rival militia from each other’s throats, over 80% of violent attacks in the area are directed against British troops.

“If Allah aids you, none can defeat you, and if He abandons you, then who can help you besides Him?” (Qur’aan)

With each defeat at the hands of kuf- faar and murtaddeen masquerading as Muslims, there is a lesson for the Um- mah. The latest defeat in the form of the Laal Musjid massacre in which 1500
Muslim girls and hundreds of others were brutally murdered by a murtadd regime posing as Muslim, is yet another warning and a sombre lesson for Mus- lims to reflect and try to fathom the causes of their misery, humiliation and defeat at the hands of the enemies of Allah Azza Wa Jal. Allah Ta’ala declares in the Qur’aan:

Even the generally anti-Islam western and local Na-Pakistani English- language media did not swallow the blatantly crude lies disseminated by the brutal savages of the military of the Impure State. From the very beginning the Musharraf regime had loudly claimed that there were hundreds of ‘militants’, trained fighters and a large arsenal of weapons in Laal Musjid. This lie has been debunked despite the feverish attempts of the brutal aggres- sors to conceal the facts – piles of bodies- blood-stained walls – scarred walls riddle with bulles and destruction in every nook and cranny of the Laal Musjid complex.

After completing the massacre of 1500 young girl students of Jamia Hafsa and numerous males, and after the pillage, plunder and destruction of the holy environs of Laal Musjid,
Musharraf’s gangs hurriedly renovated the Musjid and appointed a stooge, Muhammad Ashfaq to be the new ‘imaam’ of Laal Musjid, which he (Musharraf) renamed ‘central mosque’. The Musjid was supposed to have re- opened for Salaat on Friday 27th July.

The pro-Musharraf Daily Dawn of Karachi, Pakistan, reported the ‘re- opening’ in the following terms: “The Lal Musjid and its surrounding areas witnessed pitched battles between secu- rity forces and supporters of Maulana Abdul Aziz, former chief cleric of the mosque, after worshippers refused to offer Friday prayers behind a govern- ment-appointed imam.

A ‘New Laal Musjid’ has arisen from the ruins of the Laal Musjid Complex in Islamabad, and in the aftermath of the brutal mas- sacre of more than 1500 students (1500 being girls) by the savage military regime of Napakistan (Impure State). Approximately 150 armed tribesman took con- trol of Turangzai Sahib Musjid in Lakaro village in the Mohmand tribal area bordering Af- ghanistan, west of Peshawar.

The tribesmen renamed the Mus- jid ‘Laal Musjid’. The leader of the group informed lo- cal journalists that they had re- named the Musjid, ‘Laal Mus- jid’, and a girls Madrasah, ‘Jamia Hafsa’, would soon be set up.

“The crowd began searching through the rubble (of Laal Musjid) of a women’s seminary next to the mosque, which the government had bulldozed after the battle. An arm with rotting flesh was tugged out, as was bloody clothing, a jumble of bones and burnt fragments of a Quran. A black shroud of cloth cov- ered a mound on the dirt – witnesses said it was a body pulled out from under the debris.

‘Musharraf will pay the price for this massacre,’ wailed one woman, who was sitting on a heap of bricks and twisted metal. When paramilitary forces arrived with riot shields, men in the crowd
began hurling rocks while chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ – ‘God is great’ in Arabic. Tear-gas canisters followed, pushing the men back for a few mo- ments before they regrouped and again began throwing stones.”

The evil regime of the Impure State (Napakistan) has been monoto- nously piping the theme of 100 killed and of hundreds of armed ‘militants’ and ‘Al-Qaidah’ mem- bers inside Laal Musjid. Nothing is further from the truth. The fact that the evil regime with its cowardly and brutal armed forces had thrown a one kilometre radius cor- don around the vicinity of Laal Mus- jid, and for a week after the final mas- sacre debarred press reporters from entering the Musjid and its environs is loud and clear testification for the mur- der and carnage which evil paid, mer- cenary barbarians and savages had per- petrated on their own blood—their own kith and kin at the behest of the foreign power of aggression in Wash- ington which was pulling the reins with which it has bridled Musharraf and his kufr regime.

I’jaaz Waseem Baakhari giving an account of the massacre, writes:

“The Pakistan army has captured the Laal Musjid. By this time the blood of innocent young girls, which had freely flowed, has already been ‘cleaned’ up, and during the darkness of the night the bodies of young female students were being hidden in pits under the supervi- sion of the ruling regime. While this scene was in progress, parents of the young girl students were frantically searching for their daughters. The re- gime was assuring them that they will find their daughters safe and sound. But when will this be? This decision will be made later.

* Brigadier Butler, Commander of the British forces in Afghanistan said: “It got pretty close. We never actually ran out but that was the nature of the conflict. The guys were not starving but people were down to their belt rations. I think we might have been surprised on occasion how persistent the attacks were and how enduring the scale of the operation was. I think some may have underestimated the tenacity and ferocity of the Taliban.”