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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Assailants gunned down a Muslim preacher known for his anti-Hamas views on Friday, witnesses said, moments after he exited a mosque where he delivered a sermon criticizing the Islamic group's role in a wave of Palestinian violence. The slaying came as thousands of mourners marched through Gaza City carrying the bodies of seven Fatah men killed in a standoff with Hamas. Thursday's gunfight was the bloodiest single battle in weeks of factional fighting, and Fatah said it was suspending talks with Hamas until the assailants are brought to justice. There was no claim of responsibility...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A son of the controversial late leader of a black Muslim group here was shot and killed in what police described as a botched carjacking. Antar Bey, 24, was shot at an Oakland gas station Tuesday. Bey was the appointed successor to Yusuf Bey, a leader in the Bay area's Muslim community who died of colon cancer in 2003. The 67-year-old was best known as the founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery, famed for its bean and carrot pies and known as having an open door to struggling families. But Yusuf Bey's reputation took a hit...

Mobster gunned down with cigar in hand November 26, 2003 - 11:50AM A New England mobster has been murdered in a scene out of a Hollywood gangster movie, shot dead with his cigar still in his hand after his weekly game of cards at a social club. Adolfo 'Al' Bruno, 57, died in a hail of bullets in the car park outside the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society club in the Massachusetts town of Springfield. Bruno, reputed to be a senior local member of the New York-based Genovese crime family, was shot in the chin, neck, elbow, cheek and...

Serbian Prime Minister Is Assassinated Wednesday March 12, 2003 5:20 PM BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Serbia's prime minister - who spearheaded the revolt that toppled former President Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000 - was assassinated Wednesday by gunmen who ambushed him outside government headquarters. Zoran Djindjic, 50, died of his wounds in a Belgrade hospital after being shot in the abdomen and back, said Nebojsa Covic, a deputy prime minister. Police sources told The Associated Press that snipers firing from a building across from the government headquarters shot Djindjic as he left his car. A high-power bullet left a dent...