red mosque

The cleric who led the 2007 bloody shootout in Islamabad’s Red Mosque? He’s been released on bail.

Last week, Pakistani President Asif Al Zardari chatted up Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations. By all accounts he didn’t even get her number.
Still, Zardari’s game was too much for the leader of the radical Red Mosque, the Islamabad hotbed of extremism that last year got into a protracted gunfight with the authorities. [...]