31.   In one sortie, the aircraft hit a mosque compound in Gaza City as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the powerful spiritual guide of Hamas, prayed inside.

32.   Abu Mesameh is considered second to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the HAMAS spiritual guide serving life for murder.

33.   After hours the apprentice priests live under the tutelage of a lama, who acts as their spiritual guide.

34.   Arafat meanwile visited the family home of HAMAS founder and spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmad Yassin in an apparent goodwill gesture.

35.   Before he left Hariri visited Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual guide to pro-Iranian fundamentalists, well-informed sources said without giving more details.

36.   Fadlallah is the spiritual guide of the Moslem Shiite group, which is fighting a guerrilla war against Israeli forces in south Lebanon.

37.   The PLO chief meanwhile paid a traditional feast visit to the home of HAMAS spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who has been jailed for life by Israel.

38.   The spiritual guide of Shiite Moslem fundamentalists in Lebanon, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, said it is not a Shiite-Sunni conflict.

39.   Many observers at the time predicted a diminished power for the new spiritual guide, especially after Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani took over as president.

40.   Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the powerful spiritual guide of Hamas, prayed inside the mosque when the rockets slammed nearby but he escaped unhurt, Palestinian security sources said.