The terrorists have also started attacking religious leaders.

During the late 1930s, Witnesses were tried for sedition because their literature attacked the clergy and political leaders of the country.

The police here are on high alert after a report that a Palestinian terrorist group is planning to attack Jewish leaders, businesses and community centers.

He attacked Asian leaders who advocated neutralism, saying that "Since communism is not neutral, we cannot be neutral".

Thousands of his Palestinian followers vowed last week to avenge his death by attacking Israeli leaders, or Americans.

But the insurgents attacked villages as well, intimidating villagers and local leaders, kidnapping businessmen and massacring Hindus.

Soon afterward, the head of the Christian Coalition attacked Republican leaders in Congress for "muddle-headed moderation."

The guerrilla groups, who had been quieter in recent years, began once again to attack military leaders and government ministers.

Louis Farrakhan, a radical American activist, attacked African leaders for living well while their people starved.

"Milosevic's forces in Kosovo," she said, "are today continuing their offensive against civilians, burning and looting and attacking political leaders."