European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page to stars and stripes july 2007 pakistani rebels in mosque ignore plea for surrender by Denis Gray the associated press Pakistan the head of a Radical mosque besieged by government forces in the heart of Pakistan capital rejected Calls for an unconditional surrender saying he and his diehard followers were ready for at a Hal dozen explosions rocked the area around the Lai or red shoot ing debris High above the tree tops along with plumes of smoke and red the third Day of the siege also began with explosions and but troops appeared to be holding Back from a potentially bloody officers at the scene said the explosions were aimed not at harm ing the defenders but unnerving them into we will not we will be but we will not sur Abdul Rashid the to ranking cleric holed up inside the mosque told a television we Are More deter mined the government was keen to avoid a Bloodbath that would fur ther damage president per Vez Musharraf s embattled admin and said troops would not storm the mosque while women and children were the Pakistan army to go in is no but safety is our Foremost government spokesman Tariq Azim we dont want to harm any in Nocent we already know that these people Are being kept As Azim told Dawn news television that Ghazis talk about mar a resident of Islamabad looks through her Gate As the Pakistan army imposes curfew Friday near the Lai or red Tyr Dom was a noting his brother Maulana Abdul who had headed the said the same thing and then was arrested trying to sneak out of the Complex disguised As a troops surrounded the mosque on a Day after ten Sions Between government Security forces and mosque followers who have sought to impose Tali ban style Rule in the de into deadly Street the violence has killed 19 militant students had streamed out of the mosque tuesday to con front Security forces sent there after the kidnapping of six alleged chinese gunfire aimed at Musharraf s plane Pakistan a burst of gunfire went off As presi Dent Pervez Musharraf plane left a military base on Fri in what one official de scribed As a failed assassination Security forces quickly raided a nearby Home with two antiaircraft guns on the taking the owner in for questioning and searching for a couple who rented the property this officials it was an unsuccessful Effort by miscreants to target the presi dents plane a senior Security official told they fled and our Security agencies Are still the said it had yet to establish whether it was an attack on from the associated press the Brief abduction Drew a pro test from and proved to be the last Straw after a string of provocations by the mosque stretching Back six two dozen parents and other family members waited anxiously Friday behind Security Barri ers about 200 Yards from the with about 10 allowed to approach the shrines during lulls in the some parents have approached the handed notes to those inside with the names of their who have then officials say More than have fled the most of them Young male and female students at the mosques seminar hostage takers threaten to kill 3yearold British girl in Nigeria by Nisi Babade the associated press port kidnappers of a British girl in Nigeria Are threatening to kill the 3yearold and then come after the parents if their demands were not the girls sobbing Mother said the British government said it was working to win the release of Margaret while police ruled out using margarets Mike has lived in the country for a decade and runs a bar pop ular with expatriates in port the country main Oil in an interview through the Gates of the family margarets Oluchi said the gunmen who have been holding her daughter for More than 24 hours were giving the girl bread and Oluchi Hill would not say what the Kidnap pers were the regions main militant the movement for the emancipation of the niger has carried out kidnappings to press its demands for a greater political voice and More local benefits from Oil pro the group has denied involvement in the Hill leading Many to conclude it is one of an in creasing number of criminal the Mother told the British broadcasting that the kidnappers told her to meet them in a town in Bayesa state in the niger Delta but that Nei ther she nor the police could find they say i can bring my husband to Swap with the she told the he wanted to go Down for his baby but the police commander told him not the bbl reported that Mike Hill was ill and had been due to Fly to Britain for unspecified an official at the British High commission in Nige Ria said British officials were in Contact with local officials and the Hill were hopefully working towards a said the Rivers state police commissioner Felix Ogba Udu said Security forces would not mount an operation to free the Over the last 18 months of violence in the niger Only two hostages have been both in gunfights Between police and hostage the situation we have found ourselves in is Deli but we will do our Best to get the girl freed in he told baby Bath eighty Earold Panda Shu qing licks one of her twin cubs thursday at the research base for giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu in Southwest chivas Sichuan Shu qing gave birth to twin Panda cubs on bringing the total number of pandas at the Center to Jet skids into Mexico City killing 9 Mexico City a private cargo Jet blew a tire during Takeoff thursday at the Culiacan Airport and crashed through a runway Fence into a Busy killing All three people aboard and six More on the authorities the 43foot Sabre liner Jet operated by Jet Paque Teria skidded Down runway 20 of the Culiacan International Airport in Western Sinaloa state after a right Side Landing wheel punctured at said fran Cisco director of civil Protection for the Pacific coast state of is the Jet struck a Hummer carrying two mexican soldiers and an Oldsmobile Cutlass with a family of and burst into Diaz All nine died in the ensuing which also injured another five said Oscar Rivera a state government the Jet left a Lane of fire along the whole said a Secretary who was working a Block Korea to shut Down reactor when Aid arrives South Korea North Korea said Friday it is willing to shut Down its nuclear reactor As soon As it receives an initial shipment of promised Energy removing uncertainties Over when its promised nuclear disarmament would the North had agreed in february to close the Yon Byon reactor in Exchange for economic Aid and political including tons of heavy fuel part of an International Deal that was eventually five children die after discovering land mine Somalia five children walking to Friday prayers in Somalia capital were killed when they picked up a land mine and threw it against a witnesses the children were Between the Ages of 7 and said Chasaye nor who was hit in the thigh with one of them picked up the land mine hidden under the ground and then they Abdulkadir told the associated another child took it and threw it against a Wall and it went Hamdi whose 7yearold son was wailed when she Learned of the boys Sony apologizes for featuring Cathedral shootout issued a Public apology Friday for a violent video game that features a bloody shootout inside an anglican but it did not address the Church of England demands that the company withdraw the the Church had demanded Sony Stop Selling the game Resis Tance fall of which includes a gun Battle Between an american Soldier and aliens inside a building that resembles Manchester Cathe dral in Northwest from the associated press