07-13-2007, 09:45 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story...92,00.html
<b>Musharraf appeals for unity to beat extremists as many question official death toll</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Remarkably, only a handful of bullets had pierced the white dome of the Red Mosque itself. But as soldiers tramped across the main hall in army boots - something normally forbidden in Islam - the military said the mosque had lost its sanctity. "This is not a mosque," said Gen Arshad. "This was used as a firing place by the militants ... they were on the minarets, they were in these rooms."
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Musharraf appeals for unity to beat extremists as many question official death toll</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Remarkably, only a handful of bullets had pierced the white dome of the Red Mosque itself. But as soldiers tramped across the main hall in army boots - something normally forbidden in Islam - the military said the mosque had lost its sanctity. "This is not a mosque," said Gen Arshad. "This was used as a firing place by the militants ... they were on the minarets, they were in these rooms."
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->