The French armed forces minister, Florence Parly, told parliament a few days after the 22 November raid that Amadou Koufa, a radical preacher and senior leader of a militant group linked to al-Qaida, was one of 35 fighters who had been "neutralised".
Among the group are a senior university lecturer, teachers a preacher and a film-maker.
On Easter, one of the nation's foremost preachers, the Rev. James A. Forbes, senior minister emeritus at the Riverside Church in New York, said he would take Mr. Wright's place preaching the 6 p.m. service at Trinity in Chicago.
While chairman of HSBC, Green, a Church of England lay preacher, pursued business links with senior figures in the Egyptian regime.
Analysts believe that the investigation stems from a rivalry between the AKP and the followers of influential Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, who hold senior positions in the police and judiciary.
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The proposed law, which has been pushed by local evangelical preachers and vocally supported by senior government officials, also threatens life imprisonment for anyone convicted of gay sex.
He tried to impress the students at Liberty University (founded by fundamentalist preacher and former presidential candidate Jerry Fallwell, senior, in the 1980s) by telling them all he's a "proud Protestant, a Presbyterian in fact".
The ruling offered the British authorities a humiliating defeat in their longstanding effort to deport the preacher, who has been described as a senior operative of Al Qaeda and as "a truly dangerous person".
