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| Musharraf vows war on militants | |
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| President Pervez Musharraf says he is determined that extremism and terrorism will be eradicated in Pakistan. | |
| He was speaking in a televised address to the nation after officials said 75 bodies had been found at the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad. | |
| Troops launched a 36 hour attack on the mosque early on Tuesday to flush extremists out of the mosque complex. | |
| For months clerics and students had been deifying the authorities in their campaign for Sharia law in the capital. | |
| Students had kidnapped police as well as Islamabad residents they considered to be engaged in un-Islamic activity. | |
| 'Madrassa a fortress' | |
| Gen Musharraf praised Pakistan's security forces for freeing the Red Mosque in Islamabad "from the hands of terrorists". | |
| "Unfortunately we have been up against our own people... they had strayed from the right path and become susceptible to terrorism." | |
| "What do we want as a nation want?", President Musharraf asked. "What kind of Islam do these people represent?" | |
| "In the garb of Islamic teaching they have been training for terrorism... they prepared the madrassa as a fortress for war and housed other terrorists in there. | |
| "I will not allow any madrassa to be used for extremism." | |
| Gen Musharraf said those members of the military who died had given their blood for the country. |