What were mosque leaders doing to teach congregants that violence is not justified?

The mosque leaders sang "the party line," he said.

He said that Iran had paid for the construction of 1,400 mosques in the country and that mosque leaders paid people to support Tehran.

The title Mullah is commonly used for petty local Islamic clerics or mosque leaders.

"People were dying on a daily basis, and nobody was doing anything about that," said Mr. Saleh, the mosque leader, recounting the sermon.

Some mosque leaders who saw the Pakistani imams as militant interlopers are glad they are gone.

After the prayer, mosque leaders distributed lunches of spicy rice and lamb.

A mosque leader told her, "Use the sisters' entrance" - outside, up a flight of wooden stairs and at the rear of the building.

Successive deadlines were extended, as mosque leaders allowed some students to surrender, requiring security forces to renegotiate extensions.