1.   A powerful union leader is killed while hunting.

2.   After four pro-military traditional leaders were killed last year, Saro-Wiwa and several associates were quickly arrested for the crimes.

3.   But most Nigerians, especially the Yoruba, believe that the opposition leader was killed.

4.   But they said they do not have any evidence that any senior al-Qaida leaders were killed in that raid.

5.   DNA testing of remains has begun, to see whether any top leaders were killed.

6.   Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that interrogations of detainees had revealed a report that two senior leaders had been killed in earlier bombings.

7.   During decades of violent conflict with the Palestine Liberation Organization, assassins thought to have been sent by Israel killed Palestinian leaders in several countries.

8.   Four West Bank leaders have been killed in a little more than a month.

9.   Gen. Anatoly Kvashnin, the chief of the Russian general staff, said the military was stepping up its efforts to capture or kill rebel leaders.

10.   He was convicted of plotting terrorist acts aimed at New York City landmarks and conspiring to kill political leaders.