Rebel cleric among 50 dead at Pakistan mosque
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in an Islamabad mosque compound to end a week-long siege.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The fate of scores of hostages was still not known late yesterday after elite Pakistani commandos fought their way room by room into a heavily fortified radical mosque , killing the chief cleric and more than 50 of his armed followers and arresting dozens more.
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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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At least nine people, including a paramilitary soldier, were killed in gunfire during clashes with students at a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement in Islamabad on Tuesday, Pakistani officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 11 -- About  36 hours after they stormed the Red Mosque in a blaze of gunfire, Pakistani security forces on Wednesday killed the last remaining radicals and took on the grim task of recovering the casualties of a fierce, close-combat battle that left more than 80 people ...
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A Pakistani paramilitary trooper was shot dead and seven students were wounded during clashes at a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement in Islamabad on Tuesday.
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At least 19 people were killed and about 50 were injured in the bombing of a Shiite mosque in Pakistan&#39;s northeastern city of Sialkot, police said.
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Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim cleric as he entered a mosque in Baghdad to perform noon prayers Monday, the second slaying of a cleric from the influential Association of Muslim Scholars in as many days, the group said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Government troops stormed the compound of Islamabad's Red Mosque before dawn today, prompting a fierce firefight with militants accused of holding scores of hostages, officials said. At least 40 rebels and three soldiers were killed.
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Troops backed by gunship helicopters ringed a militant cleric's hideout in northwest Pakistan on Friday, clashing with his supporters a day after a deadly bombing, officials said.
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At least 22 people have been killed and dozens more injured in what police say was a suicide attack at a crowded Shiite Muslim mosque in eastern Pakistan.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  on Friday ordered his men inside Najaf's Imam Ali mosque to lay  down their weapons and join thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims  outside the shrine.
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Pakistanis buried bodies on Thursday from among more than 70 followers of a revolutionary cleric, a day after commandos killed the last few gunmen hiding in the ruins of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in Islamabad.
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Gunmen fired at Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's aircraft as it took off on Friday, while a radical cleric holed up with hundreds of followers at an Islamabad mosque said they would rather die than surrender.
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Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style movement, officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq : Rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr bowed Thursday to demands laid down by Iraq&#39;s Shiite spiritual leader to end the conflict in Najaf, as 74 people were killed in a mortar attack and shooting in nearby Kufa.
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A radical cleric says his followers will not surrender as tensions mount at Pakistan's besieged Red Mosque.