Cleric 'was militant group head'
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A witness in Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir's trial backs claims that he headed a radical Islamist group.
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TANK, Pakistan  - Militants in Pakistan beheaded an Afghan cleric they accused of spying for U.S. forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  - An Islamic militant  group said in an Internet statement Tuesday it had beheaded an  Iraqi Shi'ite and follower of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  because he had been spying for U.S. forces.
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An Islamic cleric accused by Washington of collaborating with al-Qaida said Monday he will only support a government based on Islam in his new role as head of a militia that controls Somalia&#039;s capital and much of the country&#039;s south.
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A militant Iraqi group said it had  beheaded a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) who  it described as a "spy" working as a translator for the U.S.  army, according to an Internet statement.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 -- A Shiite cult leader, who claimed to be a revered Muslim figure who vanished in the 10th century, was killed Sunday along with scores of fighters who were poised to attack a holy city in southern Iraq and assassinate the country's Shiite religious leadership, Iraqi officials said...
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Moqtada al-Sadr, a Shiite Muslim cleric leading an insurgency in Iraq, ordered his militiamen to leave holy shrines in Najaf, as fighting in the city continued, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television network said.
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A little-known group said on Friday it  was behind the killing of an aide to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,  Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric and a main driving force behind the  Jan. 30 elections, according to an Internet message.
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LONDON  - Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri appeared in court Tuesday charged with urging followers to kill non-Muslims.
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Pakistani commandos battled die-hard Islamic militants holed up in a radical mosque through the night and into the early morning Wednesday, killing an extremist cleric and dozens of his followers in an assault that ignited fiery protests and calls for revenge by Islamic extremists.
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops has been killed, officials say.
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A militant Iraqi group said it had beheaded a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) who it described as a "spy" working as a translator for the U.S. army, according to an Internet statement.
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A militant group in Iraq, the Armyof Ansar al-Sunna, said in a statement on its website on Saturdayit beheaded an Iraqi man it accused of collaborating with USforces.
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A leading human rights group in  Afghanistan said on Saturday it suspected a renegade commander  was behind the beheading and skinning of fighters loyal to  Ismail Khan, governor of the western province of Herat.
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An Afghan Islamic cleric who died in custody in Pakistan on Wednesday had signs of torture on his body, an intelligence official said.
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Radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr pledges to work with Sunni groups against the US-led occupation.
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Thursday they had bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie.