mullah

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• For decades, Tehran and Riyadh have battled for regional supremacy, each trying to extend its arc of influence in the Middle East using money, military muscle and mullahs.

• Then, it was the arrest of a popular leader named Mullah Kareem without just cause that provided the spark.

• The defense minister of this short-lived republic was Mullah Mustafa Barzani, the Iraqi-born father of Masoud Barzani.

• And the third was Mullah Adahdad, 45, an unarmed cleric who was attacked with a grenade and gunned down by several soldiers.

• As the platoon was leaving the compound, they came across a local: Mullah Adahdad.

• A mullah at Tehran University told Iranians on official TV that Jews use jinns, or genies, for espionage.

• He would kill Henry Falkins here and now, and then go down like a mad mullah, satisfied to pay the penalty with his own life.

• He made Kim learn whole chapters of the Koran by heart, till he could deliver them with the very roll and cadence of a mullah.

• Just before they entered it two more of the mullah's men came up with them, leading horses.

• King nodded again, for a nod is less committal than a word; and the nod was enough to start the mullah off again.

• The mullah snorted and went back to the fire, but he took King's cake of soap with him and sat examining it.