Maulavi Ghulam Rabbani, 60, a religious leader and commander allied with the government, said American planes bombed and fired on his home on the night of Oct. 30, killing six people, including two of his children.
Mr. Ghalibaf seemed to be the front-runner in the 2005 election, but in the final days he lost the support of the important network of Friday Prayer leaders, religious centers and commanders who thought he was too modern.
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin's strategy for ending the war in Chechnya depended almost entirely on Akhmad Kadyrov, the former rebel commander and religious leader who became president last fall in an election widely viewed as rigged.
"Many of us know each other from before, as we studied in the same madrassas (religious seminaries)," said a commander of a militant group in Kunar.
Thousands of Tunisian militants are said to have joined Islamic State in Syria, though Islamic State's leadership has generally been viewed as being dominated by Iraqis, both religious militants and former commanders in the Iraqi armed forces of Saddam Hussein, a secular leader.
He styled himself emir, commander, of a religious cell.
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Baghdadi, his commanders, and their religious officials were "deviants" who had "disobeyed the orders of their leaders and head scholars".
Police commanders worked with religious leaders and community organizations to identify crime spots and develop support in those cities' substantial minority populations.
In the end, 12 members of the Kfir regiment of religious soldiers, including two company commanders, refused their orders and were immediately court-martialed, receiving sentences of up to a month in military jail.
