Mosque madness continues in Islamabad

CNN:

Two students at the Red Mosque in Islamabad who tried to surrender Friday were shot dead by radical Islamic students, intelligence sources in Pakistan said.

The sources gave no additional details of how the shootings occurred. CNN is attempting to reach officials inside the Red Mosque for comment.

Pakistani forces and radical Islamic students in Islamabad -- Pakistan's capital -- remained locked in a tense standoff at the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, punctuated by heavy explosions and periodic exchanges of gunfire, a four day siege that has now resulted in at least 26 deaths.

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Intelligence sources say the nearly 1,000 people who remain holed up inside the mosque are facing a food and water shortage that is making living conditions inside miserable.

At least 50 of those people are well-armed hard-liners, according to Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao.

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It appears that many of the 1000 people remaining in the mosque are actually hostages to the 50 "well-armed hard-liners," aka Islamist religious nuts. The killing of the students trying to escape gives away the plot. It appears that the Pakistani forces will continue to lay siege to those remaining in the mosque in the hope that hunger will force them out. Those who are armed should face murder conspiracy charges at a minimum for shooting those trying to flee.