1.   Ali Mahdi never gave his reasons for firing the Moslem cleric, but northern Mogadishu residents suspect Ali Mahdi feared Dhere was wielding too much influence.

2.   The Tajik government delegation is headed by Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov and the opposition delegation by Akhbar Turonjozada, a Moslem cleric.

3.   The Vatican and some prominent Moslem clerics have condemned the draft U.N. document as emphasizing individual freedom at the expense of morality.

4.   Health authorities have provided the Moslem clerics with cholera information and preventive instructions to convey to the worshippers, Tibi said.

5.   His mother belongs to the Shammar, a powerful bedouin tribe which gave Abdallah military training after he was educated by Moslem clerics.

6.   Indian army troops shot dead a Moslem guerrilla leader Wednesday, while allegations that a Moslem cleric died at the hands of police sparked protests in Kashmir.

7.   A gunman stormed into the bedroom of a senior Moslem cleric in northern Lebanon on Wednesday, opened fire and fled without harming Sheikh Taha Sabonji, police said.

8.   A Moslem cleric led the prayers at the grave.

9.   A Moslem cleric, who declined to be named, told AFP the authorities ordered prayer leaders opposed to the treaty against preaching on Friday.

10.   A group of Moslem clerics have decreed that AIDS carriers who knowingly transmit the disease should be sentenced to death, by crucifixion if necessary.