Workers block a road with barbed wire near Lal Masjid, or Red
Mosque, during a curfew in Islamabad July 8, 2007. A rebel cleric said he and
his fighters hoped their deaths would spark an Islamic revolution in Pakistan,
as commandos blew holes in the walls of their besieged mosque compound to help
women and children inside escape. Troops have surrounded the Lal Masjid, or Red
Mosque, in Islamabad since Tuesday when clashes between armed student radicals
and government forces erupted after months of tension. [Reuters]
