1.   Bin Laden issued a fatwa, or religious edict, in February that other groups and militant members of the Islamic clergy also signed.

2.   Nor did he acknowledge the efforts of moderate elements within Iran to challenge the conservative Islamic clergy that now run the country.

3.   The Khatami faction is opposed by an entrenched Islamic clergy.

4.   This warmth of the people on the street toward Americans, in contrast to the anti-American rhetoric from Islamic clergy and on billboards, is more layered and complex.

5.   Islamic clergy ordered Jerusalem merchants to close their shops in protest for four hours Wednesday.

6.   Islamic clergy apparently felt threatened by the growing popularity of the religion.

7.   It also indicates that most Iranians want freedom, not the violent overthrow of the ruling Islamic clergy.

8.   Tefilin, the first defendant to be arrested more than a year ago, made his admissions Monday on state television -- also controlled by the hard-line Islamic clergy.

9.   The Revolutionary Guard is an elite military body dedicated to the ruling Islamic clergy.

10.   Under Egyptian law the sentence should be endorsed by the mufti, the highest Islamic clergy before it is carried out.