41.   A U.S. official acknowledged the attack but said it was uncertain whether it killed any leaders of al-Qaida.

42.   A student leader also was killed.

43.   A U.S. official acknowledged the attack but said it was uncertain whether it killed any leaders of the terrorist network.

44.   Abu Sayyaf kidnap leader believed killed in clash with troops, Philippine military sources say.

45.   About a dozen local leaders have been killed in the past eight weeks, Palestinians say.

46.   Acting national police chief Roberto Lastimoso blamed the Abu Sayyaf, an extremist Muslim group whose leader was killed in a recent clash, for the first attack.

47.   Algerian authorities claimed they have killed a leader of the violent Muslim militant Armed Islamic Group, who was identified as a mastermind of terror attacks in France.

48.   Also, two Rukh leaders were killed in other regions of Ukraine in the past year.

49.   Allied forces tried to locate and kill Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with a bombing strike during the Gulf War, former prime minister John Major said in an interview.

50.   An Albanian union leader was also killed.