Sunni cleric killed in Baghdad
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A second Sunni cleric from the prominent Committee of Muslim Scholars was assassinated on Monday in Baghdad, a spokesman for the organisation said.
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Sheik Jamal al-Din Abdul Karim al-Dabban, Iraq's top Sunni Arab religious leader, died Sunday, an official said. He was 68.
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KARACHI, 10 October 2004 - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a prominent pro-Taleban Sunni cleric in this southern port city late yesterday, police said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Gunmen have killed a member of an influential Sunni clerics&#39; group that has called for a boycott to next year&#39;s Iraqi national elections.
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Four Iraqi Sheikhs tied to the US's anti-Al Qaeda plan were killed Monday in Baghdad.
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At least 10 supporters of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric were shot dead in Najaf Thursday when gunmen opened fire at police who were trying to control the crowd, prompting the police to return fire, witnesses said.
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An unknown gunman shot a Sunni  cleric at a mosque in the far northwestern Nigerian city of  Sokoto on Wednesday and a Sunni mob attacked Shi&#39;ite  headquarters in the city in retaliation, witnesses said.
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A bomb struck a Sunni mosque northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing 10 worshippers and wounding 15 in the same town where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was slain earlier this month.
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BAGHDAD  -- A senior aide to radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr was assassinated on the road between the holy city of Najaf and Baghdad, an official from the movement said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 -- Gunmen killed a prominent Shiite politician Saturday in what police and others said appeared to have been a sectarian assassination.
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A representative of Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric is assassinated along with four bodyguards and his son.
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November 23, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Gunmen assassinated two influential Sunni clerics who called for a boycott of national elections, soon after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in the country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.
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Iraqi and U.S. forces killed a top official of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's organization in a raid on his home north of Baghdad on Sunday, calling him a "rogue leader" of Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.
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BAGHDAD, June 16 -- Another Sunni mosque in the Basra area of southern Iraq was destroyed Saturday, as a leading Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, called on his followers to march to the Sunni town of Samarra next month to a revered Shiite shrine that was attacked Wednesday.
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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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Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics' group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in Iraq.