51.   An Albanian union leader also was killed.

52.   Analysts paid little attention to that threat until an IRA splinter gang killed the leader of the Loyalist Volunteers, a renegade Protestant gang opposed to the talks.

53.   An attacker using an assault rifle shot and killed a leader of the Kumyk ethnic group in Dagestan on Sunday, a news report said.

54.   At least three other regional Palestinian leaders have been killed since the current unrest began.

55.   At the time, police working with big landholders killed Indian leaders by the dozens.

56.   Azim Tariq, a militant Sunni Muslim leader appearing at the court was also injured, another Sunni Muslim leader was killed.

57.   Basilan is home to the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group, whose leader was killed last year during a police assault on one of his mountain lairs.

58.   Basilan is home to the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group, whose leader was killed last year in a gunbattle in one of his mountain lairs.

59.   Burundi authorities arrested five people, including two soldiers, after they attempted to kill Burundian leader Maj. Pierre Buyoya on Wednesday, radio reports said.

60.   Earlier this week, Israel killed the leader of another PLO faction, Mustafa Zibri, in a targeted missile attack.