Word: cleric
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...have claimed its first victim Thursday when Ayatollah Abdul Majid al-Khoei was stabbed to death by unknown assailants inside the Imam Ali Mosque, Shiite Islam's holiest shrine, in the city of An Najaf. According to press reports, al-Khoei was killed during a meeting with a rival cleric backed by Saddam's regime over control of the shrine. The reports said al-Khoei had gone to the aid of the regime-backed cleric who had been attacked by a crowd inside the mosque, and both men were stabbed in the ensuing melee. The killing couldn't have come...
...told me to send whoever is ready." A Milan investigator told TIME that the recruits were meant to go to Iraq to fight against U.S.-led forces. - By Jeff Israely/Milan The Limits of Free Speech U.K. Home Secretary David Blunkett launched proceedings to strip Egyptian - born radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri of his British citizenship. The move is the first use of a new law targeted at immigrants whose actions are deemed to seriously prejudice British interests. Abu Hamza applauded the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., and was later banned by the U.K.'s Charity Commission from...
...base in Quetta that was raided by local police and FBI agents on Feb. 13. Mohammed and another man escaped by leaping from roof to roof. A third man was detained; he turned out to be Mohammed Abdel Rahman, the son of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric currently in a U.S. federal prison for plotting to blow up New York landmarks in 1995. After the son's arrest, the two missing men were traced to the house in Rawalpindi where Mohammed was eventually arrested. "We weren't sure we had the right man," said a Pakistani officer...
...last remaining strongholds near the town of Pikit. The generals initially said they were after a band of kidnappers. But the MILF took a pounding, just weeks before more peace talks were to be held in Kuala Lumpur. Feeling betrayed, the MILF's frail 61-year-old spiritual leader, cleric Hashim Salamat, made an emotional appeal for all Muslims with access to arms to "fight until death." In a taped speech broadcast on Feb. 24 by a Cotabato regional radio station, he said, "We are pushed to the wall, we have to fight back...
...altar boy, to 41/2 years in prison; in Hong Kong. Lau is one of eight current or former priests of Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Church accused of pedophilia, and he was defrocked in 1995 after an in-house investigation found him guilty. It is the first time a cleric has been jailed for sex crimes in the territory...