US priest, nun help shield home of militant
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip -- An American priest and nun spent several hours yesterday at a militant's house that Israel has targeted for destruction, the first foreigners to join a weeklong standoff between Palestinian "human shields" and the Israeli Air Force.
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Two U.S. missionaries held hostage for five days in Haiti spent their captivity in a sweltering makeshift cell praying and even ministering to their kidnappers, one of the men said Friday.
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The jihadists' tactics aren't mysterious. We just need help on the  ground
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Pakistani security forces battled militants at the seminary of a powerful extremist cleric, according to police officials.
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WASHINGTON -- Relatives of the US soldier who sounded the alarm about abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison said yesterday that the family was living in protective custody because of death threats against them.
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US-led forces struck a safehouse used by followers of Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, the military said Saturday.
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US forces and Shiite militants fought fierce battles Monday marked by explosions and gunfire near a revered shrine in Najaf, as the US military stepped up pressure on the insurgents to quickly hand over the holy site to Shiite religious authorities.
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NAJAF, Iraq  Militants loyal to firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that they handed over the keys to a revered Muslim shrine to Shiite religious leaders a big step toward resolving a 2-week-old standoff in the holy city of Najaf.
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WARSAW -- The priest is gray-haired but still strong . He walks briskly in the cold morning light, remembering when the communist secret police slipped in amid the faithful and tried to turn him into a spy.
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Immigration authorities on Wednesday briefly detained representatives of a man who says he was sexually abused by a Mexican Roman Catholic priest. The three men were detained shortly after they alleged that the fugitive cleric was still celebrating Mass in Mexico.
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Kidnappers have demanded $100,000 for the release of two U.S. missionaries seized on their way to church in Haiti's capital, a U.N. official said Thursday. The captors initially sought $500,000 but lowered the ransom demand during negotiations with the FBI, said Leslie Dallemand, chief of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's anti-kidnapping unit.
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A SWAT team surrounded one of  Southern California's best-known churches on Friday after a  gunman fired shots in Orange County's Crystal Cathedral,   foiling plans for a major Christmas show, police said.
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Security stepped up after arrests over alleged plot to break out of jail a disciple of Osama bin Laden
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded areas near a  shrine where radical Shi'ite militiamen were holed up early  Friday after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final  demand from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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NAJAF - A senior commander of Shia militants holed up inside a Najaf shrine said the wall of the mosque was hit by US fire last night.
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BAGHDAD -- For three years, thousands of members of a militant group dedicated to overthrowing Iran's theocracy have lived in a sprawling compound north of Baghdad under the protection of the U.S. military.
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A priest is in a critical condition after being attacked by men armed with machetes on an island where Westerners have been warned they are at risk from Muslim terrorists.