Pakistani rebel cleric 'killed'
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops is killed, officials say.
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A Shia cleric known for his stance against Wahhabism, a strict version of Sunni Islam, is killed in south-western Iran.
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Government officials in Yemen say security forces have killed a radical Muslim cleric, who led a three-month rebellion and staged violent protests against Israel and the United States.
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At least 13 people were killed Thursday when around 100 pro-Taliban militants launched rockets and lobbed hand grenades at the home of a top Pakistani cleric, police and witnesses said.
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Pakistan's security forces on Sunday shot dead a militant said to have plotted an attempt to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf and to have had a hand in the killing of a U.S. journalist, the information minister said.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a rebel Pakistani cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed an Islamabad mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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The spiritual mentor of al Qaeda ally Abu  Musab al-Zarqawi, a Muslim cleric who justified Zarqawi's  beheading of hostages in Iraq, has been killed in a U.S. air  strike, associates and relatives said on Wednesday.
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A rebel cleric said he and his fighters hoped their deaths would spark an Islamic revolution in Pakistan, as commandos blew holes in the walls of their besieged mosque compound to help women and children inside escape.
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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A Pakistani religious leader, allegedly linked with the al-Qaeda terrorist network, has died here in police custody, local media reported Thursday.
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Yemeni forces killed anti-U.S. rebel  cleric Hussein al-Houthi and dozens of his supporters on  Friday, ending over two months of clashes in which over 200  rebels and troops have died.
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Pakistani paramilitary forces killed one of the most wanted militants in the country Sunday, a government official said. Amjad Hussain Farooqi was killed in an early morning raid
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Rebel cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi among at least 59 people killed during battle for Islamabad compound.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen in Baghdad have killed a Muslim cleric who was a member of a group which interceded in the past to win the release of foreign hostages, hours after a radical Islamic group released footage showing the beheading of an American civilian.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A deputy provincial governor along with four other people were killed while praying in a mosque on Thursday in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a doctor said.
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A Pakistani army commander was shot and killed by Islamic radicals Sunday during an operation where troops blasted holes in a besieged mosque's perimeter walls, escalating an already tense stand-off between troops and the radical Islamists hiding inside.
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At least one person is killed apparently heeding a top Iraqi cleric's call to march on Najaf, where a stand-off continues.
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Reports say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's successor as al-Qaeda in Iraq leader has been killed.