Re: “He said they were willing to come out but feared Rangers would fire on them,”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\13\story_13-7-2007_pg11_4
ISLAMABAD: When Bakhat Fazil rushed to the embattled Lal Masjid to rescue his three daughters trapped inside, he was greeted not by his children but by a barrage of bullets. He survived and his daughters were freed. But dozens of parents still have no information of their children as the bloody weeklong siege ended on Wednesday.
Fazil recounted how bullets hit him in his shoulder and leg and he saw his wife running for cover amid the crossfire between the security forces and militants inside the mosque. After laying in agony on the ground for six hours, an army ambulance finally wheeled him to a government hospital where his luck turned - his daughters, all under 10 years of age, had been released from the mosque’s religious school where they had been studying. Fazil said his daughters were prevented from leaving the seminary by the extremists. “I know many parents begged for the release of their children. I curse those who did not free the innocent women and children and held them against their will,” he said from his bed at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, adding that he had sent his daughters to the mosque to study, not to become militants. But other parents and relatives, although uninjured, are still hunting for their loved ones.