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The Assault[edit] Battle for the mosqueOn the morning of July 10, former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Federal Religious Affairs Minister Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq declared that peace negotiations via loudspeaker and mobile phone had failed. Within minutes, the Special Service Group were issued orders to storm the mosque.[29] Pakistan Army spokesman Waheed Arshad said troops began by attacking and breaching the mosque from the south[30] and assaulted it from three directions at 4:00 am (23:00 GMT).[31] The forces immediately came under gunfire from heavily armed militants hunkered down behind sandbagged positions on the roof and from holes in the walls of the mosque.[32] The SSG quickly cleared the mosque's ground floor, amid explosions coming from the mosque. About 30 women and children ran toward the advancing SSG operators and managed to escape unharmed.[32]
While the SSG secured the ground floor of the mosque, they continually received fire from the mosque's minarets. This slowed the operation's progress.[33] On the mosque roof, militants had piled sandbags at the base of the minarets, which they now used as steps to shoot at troops below.[33] After the minarets were taken, the SSG progressed deeper into the complex, and the militants threw gasoline bombs in an unsuccessful attempt to set fire to the mosque and stop the assault.[33] Once the ground floor was secured, the SSG attempted to enter the Jamia Hafsa madrasah adjoining the mosque but were delayed by booby traps, which had to be disabled before they could continue into the complex.[33]
[edit] Battle for the Jamia Hafsa complexThe SSG entered the complex, which also served as Abdul Rasid Ghzi's living quarters, and engaged in a firefight in the main courtyard.[33] Militants fired on them from makeshift bunkers beneath the stairwell.[33] Army spokesman Arshad later stated that the militants must have been fortifying the bunkers for several months.[33] Once the courtyard was cleared, the SSG entered the labyrinth of the Jamia Hafsa building. Militants inside were armed with guns and rockets, and some areas were booby-trapped.[32] Some militants had bullet- and explosion-proof vests and other sophisticated weapons.[34] The SSG suffered most of their casualties during this phase of the operation.[34] In close-quarter combat, the SSG were attacked with smoke grenades, incendiary grenades, and fragmentation grenades.[34] Twenty-nine of the thirty-three SSG commandos who were injured in the operation received injuries from fragmentation grenades.[34] As the fight continued, the SSG came upon a room in which half a dozen militants were present. One of the militants detonated a suicide jacket, killing everyone in the room.[34] It took several hours of intense fighting before the SSG gained control of Jamia Hafsa, with only the basement remaining to be secured.
[edit] Final standArshad said troops had secured 80 percent of the complex and were moving slowly, as the resistance was intense in the remaining areas.[29] The standoff continued, as heavily armed militants had retreated into the basement using women and children as human shields, according to the Pakistan Army spokesman.[35] The militants in the basement resisted with machine guns, shoulder-fired rockets, and Molotov cocktails. In a last interview with Geo TV during the operation, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was hunkered down in the basement, claimed that his mother had been wounded by gunfire and was quoted as saying, "The government is using full force. This is naked aggression... my murder is certain now." Ghazi also claimed that 30 rebels were still battling Pakistani troops, but they only had 14 AK-47s.[36]
Militants continued to fire at the SSG commandos from ventilation grilles in the basement.[33] During the firefight, Abdul Rashid Ghazi was shot in the leg and was asked to surrender.[37] However, militants in the room fired back at the SSG, and Ghazi was killed in the crossfire.[37] Other reports say that Ghazi came out of a bunker to surrender, only to be shot by his own forces.[37] The fighting continued until all the personnel trapped in the basement either surrendered or were killed
Mosque securedOn July 11, officials reported that the Lal Masjid complex had been cleared of militants, and troops were combing the area for booby traps and explosives. The eight-day Lal Masjid operation was the longest ever conducted by the SSG.[39]
According to Inter-Services Public Relations, weapons were recovered from the bullet-riddled Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa complexes, including Russian and Chinese variant RPG rockets,[39] anti-tank and anti-personnel landmines, suicide bombing belts, three to five .22-caliber rifles, RPD, RPK and RPK-74 light machine guns, Dragunov sniper rifles, SKS rifles, AK-47s, pistols, night vision equipment, and more than 50,000 rounds of various caliber ammunition.[39] Lesser sophisticated items and weaponry recovered from the complex included three crates of gasoline bombs prepared in green soft drink bottles, gas masks, recoilless rifles, two-way radios, large plastic buckets containing homemade bombs the size of tennis balls, as well as knives.[39]
Intelligence agencies expressed shock at the highly sophisticated weapons that the militants in the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa compound had, and began an investigation into where the equipment came from.[34] Pakistan Army spokesman Waheed Arshad said that a suicide bomber had detonated himself in the mosque located at the opposite side of the complex to the seminary.[39] Arshad also said a second suicide bomber had detonated himself in the white-domed mosque.[39] In total, it took 36 hours to fully secure the complex and remove the booby traps.[4]
[edit] CasualtiesOfficials in Islamabad considered the operation a success, citing that they were able to subdue all the fighters inside the mosque—a group that allegedly included foreign terrorists—without a heavy civilian toll. "The number of casualties was much lower than it could have been," said Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan's prime minister.[4] Of the 164 SSG Army commandos that participated in the siege and later assault of the mosque, 10 died and 33 were wounded.[4]
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) reported that from July 3 until July 11, 1,096 people, 628 men, 465 women, and 3 children left or were rescued from the complex.[40] The IGP also confirmed that 102 people were killed during the operation: 91 militants, 10 SSG commandos, and 1 Ranger soldier.
"With militants in different rooms, firing from behind pillars, and then going into basements and clearing it, you can understand the difficulties," Arshad told journalists.[33]
[edit] Damage to mosqueThe damage to Lal Masjid was extensive. The entrance hall was completely burned out, the ceiling scorched, and the red walls above the oval doorway blackened. However, the mosque itself sustained less damage than the Jamia Hafsa seminary. Bullet casings were found all over the mosque roof, and the inside of Lal Masjid was turned coal black from the militants trying to set the mosque on fire using gasoline bombs. Militants used the mosque’s two white minarets as vantage points, resulting in damage to the minarets. One minaret was completely destroyed, and its speakers were hanging from their wires.[39] The dome, however, was not damaged during the 36-hour battle. The director general of the Inter Services Public Relations said photographs of the bodies seem to indicate that there were foreigners among the dead.[33]
In the Jamia Hafsa complex, damage was extensive, with thousands of bullet holes in the courtyard. The basement was blackened from rockets.[33] The main buildings of the complex were structurally intact, but the boundary walls had been breached in several places. The building had bullet marks in its cement structure.[33] The two courtyards inside the school were filled with shattered glass and spent rounds. Piles of the girls’ bed rolls and stacks of books were piled against walls.[33]................
