1.   He removed its anti-white theology, changed its name to the Muslim American Society and declared it part of the worldwide Sunni Islamic community.

2.   Fadlallah is from the Shiite minority and bin Laden belongs to the majority Sunni community.

3.   An investigation was launched into the pre-dawn attack on Sabonji, head of the Sunni community in northern Lebanon.

4.   The program has reportedly stirred resentment among some Sunni communities in the Islamic republic.

5.   Pakistani authorities tightened security deploying police around mosques and places of worship of both Shia and Sunni communities in major cities.

6.   Police have arrested several hundred Sunni and Shia activists since the killing of Osama Maoud, a senior Punjab government official from the Sunni community in Lahore on Monday.

7.   Police have been stationed at places of worship and leaders of both Shiite and Sunni communities have been advised to travel only with police escorts, sources said.

8.   Tension surfaced between some Shiite and Sunni communities in eastern Iran after a Sunni mosque was destroyed by the authorities in Mashhad in January.