Ms. Friedman will be succeeded by Brian Murray, 41, group president of HarperCollins and Ms. Friedman's closest deputy, effective immediately, the News Corporation said in a statement.
Gerald Boyd, who was the managing editor under Raines and his closest deputy, wrote a memoir some years later in which he said, "I could read Raines well, but I could not understand why he had a problem with her.
"My guess is that, like I've said before, I will wind up running the foundation along with Patti Harris and trying to make the world better," he said, referring to his closest deputy, Patricia E. Harris.
Among the others on the list of most wanted terrorists are Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician who founded the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and is often described as Mr. bin Laden's closest deputy.
Mr. Hinton was one of Mr. Murdoch's closest deputies and a veteran of News Corporation for more than 50 years.
After the party's rise to power in the late 1960's, Mr. Ramadan was one of Mr. Hussein's two closest deputies and became known for purging nonparty members from the armed forces and ordering the execution of potential rivals to Mr. Hussein.
The picture emerging from government documents, court transcripts and interviews is of an underground army so scattered and self-sustaining that even the elimination of Mr. bin Laden and his closest deputies might not eradicate the threat they have created.
Isea served for years as one of Hugo Chavez's closest deputies.
But last month, sources close to Deputy Prime Minister made it known that Mr Clegg would fight to stop her removal from the rewritten Curriculum.
We have opened 69 shelters RT Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 7.49pm BST19:49 Deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf confirmed in a State Department briefing today that two IDF soldiers killed were dual US citizens, adding that the State Department has been in touch with the families of the dead soldiers.
