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Mon 07 Jul 2007Pakistan mosque siege enters 7th daySecurity forces fired tear gas and traded gunfire with Islamist militants in a Pakistani mosque compound today a day after the government gave "a final warning" to surrender.Holes have been blown in outer walls of the compound housing Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, and a girls' madrasa, where the government says 200 to 500 followers of a rebel cleric's Taliban-style movement a resisting a siege.