Mosque mostly taken
The short and long of it:
"Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad said only a "very few" militants were still resisting and that combat operations would soon end. But he said clearing the compound of mines, booby traps and other weaponry could take some time.
"The whole area has to be sanitized," he told a press conference.
Arshad said three of the remaining die-hard defenders had been killed overnight, and that troops were meeting resistance in just "one or two places" of the sprawling compound in the heart of the Pakistani capital.
More than 50 militants and 10 soldiers have been killed since the assault began in the early hours of Tuesday, including the mosque's pro-Taliban cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the army said.
Commandos went in after unsuccessful attempts to get the mosque's militants to surrender to a weeklong siege mounted by the government following deadly street clashes with armed supporters of the mosque on July 3."
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One down, about 5,000 more to go.
-Zeno