Witness Special - Inside the Red Mosque
2007-08-01 · 45 min · Not rated
In the days leading up to the storming of the Red Mosque, Al Jazeera's Rageh Omaar gained exclusive access. He and his team were the last TV crew inside the mosque before the siege began and filmed the last interview with Abdul Rashid Ghazi, one of the mosque's leaders, before his death.
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- Farah Durrani
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- Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Al Jazeera English
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- Released
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Abdul Aziz GhaziHimself, Imam Abdul Aziz (archive footage)
Abdul Rashid GhaziHimself, Imam Abdul Rashid
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