Saudi police seize armed man entering Mecca mosque
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Saudi police arrested a man with weapons hidden under his clothes as he tried to enter the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, a Saudi security official said on Friday.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in the Islamic holy city of Mecca on Tuesday for what officials depicted as a last-ditch effort to end factional fighting and a crippling Western embargo.
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Hundreds of militiamen were arrested today when police entered the Imam Ali Mosque, but rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was not found, Iraqi officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 5 -- The bombastic cleric at the center of a deadly months-long standoff between the Pakistani government and a radical mosque was arrested Wednesday night as he attempted to flee, disguised in a burqa, government officials said.
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Police arrested a radical Muslim cleric Thursday on suspicion of preparing or instigating "acts of terrorism," a move that could delay U.S. attempts to extradite the suspect for allegedly trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon and on other charges.
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Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, already detained in London on an extradition request from the United States, was arrested under Britain's main anti-terrorist law, police said.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Saudi security forces arrested suspected al Qaeda militants planning attacks during the haj pilgrimage, a Saudi-owned television said on Friday as Muslim pilgrims performed the last rituals in Mecca.
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Saudi security forces surrounded a Riyadh mosque and helicopters clattered overhead Friday amid calls by a London-based Saudi dissident for demonstrations against the royal family, but worshippers dispersed peacefully after prayers.
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Saudi police, battling al Qaeda militant  attacks to destabilize the pro-U.S. kingdom, have arrested two  wanted militants in the central city of Buraida, security  sources said Sunday.
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Saudi security sources say police in Riyadh have foiled two suicide attacks on government facilities. In the first incident, authorities say an attacker tried to drive his car into the Interior Ministry, but
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Indian police detain a man in connection with a deadly blast at a historic mosque in Hyderabad.
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Israeli police forces entered the area around the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and dispersed stone-throwing worshipers with stun grenades at the end of Friday prayers, the police said.
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Security forces besieging a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital captured its top cleric Wednesday as he tried to sneak out of the complex in a woman's burqa, and more than 1,000 of his followers surrendered.
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Police arrested a radical Muslim cleric Thursday on suspicion of preparing or instigating ``acts of terrorism,&#39;&#39; a move that could delay US attempts to extradite the suspect
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RADICAL Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, already detained in London on an extradition request from the United States, was arrested today under Britain&#39;s main anti-terrorist law, police said.
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A radical cleric captured by security forces while fleeing in a womanâs burqa said that the nearly 1,000 followers still inside his government-besieged mosque in Pakistanâs capital should escape or surrender.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces searched seven mosques in the city of Ramadi on Tuesday, and detained a regional leader from the Association of Muslem Scholars, his followers said.