Submitted by Rick (United States), Jul 17, 2007 at 18:00
A group of Chinese entreprenuers opened a factory producing motorized ricksaws in the capital of Pakistan. Taliban style facists from the Red Mosque killed three of the Chinese factory owners. China complained to Mushrarraf and I believe it was this incident that was the final straw.
Also, Chinese masseurs were also threatened and briefly held captive. There is one way and only one way to deal with inflammatory mosques and that is to target immans who forment sedition and call for jihad. A dead who held a leadership role in calling for violence imman is worth more than twenty minor immans locked up. One dead imman can cause problems but 4,5 or more is a message than cannot be misunderstood. There is no need to take credit for the deed. Immans are the generals of jihad, and since when do you refrain from killing the generals of your enemy.
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