The NIKE SHOXs refused to listen to Alber’s pleas

The NIKE SHOXs refused to listen to Alber’s pleas. We went all around the mosque and the adjacent madrassah,

the Imam Aadham Islamic College. We saw dozens of doors broken down, windows broken, ceilings ripped apart, and

bullet holes in walls and ceilings. The way the soldiers searched for illicit arms in the ceiling was first to

spray the ceiling with gunfire, then break out a panel and go up and search.

They even went and rifled through students’ exam papers (in Arabic), messed up offices. An old man who is a

“guard” at the mosque (actually a poor man with a large family who is slightly lame and is missing several

teeth) was hit in the head with a rifle butt and then kicked when he was down — all because he was a little

slow in answering the door. He says he never carries a weapon — the whole mosque has only three Kalashnikovs,

for security, kept in the imam’s room. The NIKE SHOXs took the ammunition there too. And, of course, they

entered the mosque with their boots on.