| November 22, 2004 | - British programmers released a game called “JFK: Reloaded,” which recreates the Grassy Knoll. “Players will discover just how hard it is to place those three bullets in exactly the same way that Oswald did,” said a spokesman for the game company.
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Guardian
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| September 27, 2004 | -
Israel used a car bomb to assassinate a Hamas official in Syria.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| December 28, 2003 | - General Pervez Musharraf, the dictator of Pakistan, survived another assassination attempt.
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Telegraph
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| October 10, 2003 | -
President Bush gave a speech before a military crowd in New Hampshire and said that the situation in Iraq is "a lot better than you probably think." On that day in Iraq, a car bomb attack killed eight policemen, a Spanish diplomat was assassinated, and a U.S. soldier was murdered.
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Washington Post
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| September 22, 2003 | - Akila al-Hashemi, one of three women on the Iraqi governing council, was severely wounded in an assassination attempt.
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New York Times
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| September 15, 2003 | - Ehud Olmert, the Israeli vice prime minister, said that assassinating
Arafat was under consideration.
"In my eyes, from a moral point of view, this is no different than the eliminations of others who were involved in activating acts of terror."
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 4, 2003 | - In Afghanistan, the Taliban assassinated a senior Muslim religious leader, the third in forty days.
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New York Times
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| June 22, 2003 | - The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians continued to move forward: Israel assassinated a Hamas leader;
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 25, 2003 | -
South African authorities charged 23 right-wing Afrikaners with plotting to assassinate Nelson Mandela.
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| March 18, 2003 | -
Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic of Serbia was assassinated.
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| November 12, 2002 | -
The CIA, using a Predator drone, assassinated an Al Qaeda leader and several of his companions in Yemen; it turned out that one of the men was an American citizen.
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| October 29, 2002 | -
Newly declassified documents revealed that in 1976, on the day before Chilean agents assassinated Orlando Letelier with a car bomb in Washington, D.C., a senior State Department official told American ambassadors not to speak to their local Latin American dictators about the need to stop using death squads to deal with dissidents.
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| September 3, 2002 | -
Israeli tanks fired at a village in the Gaza Strip and killed four members of a family that was sleeping outdoors; the government expressed regret for the killings, which it said were inappropriate. Human rights groups denounced the army for using flechettes, tiny metal darts that spray out of tank shells, in the attack. Israel also apologized for killing a 10-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl during an attempt to assassinate a Palestinian militant, who escaped.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
A bomb blew up a commuter bus in Galilee, killing nine people; five more Israelis were killed in other attacks the same day, all of which were said to be in retaliation for the assassination last week of a Hamas leader in which 14 other Palestinians, including nine children, were killed.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
Pim Fortuyn, a gay, right-wing, anti-immigrant politician, was assassinated in the Netherlands; police arrested an animal-rights activist in connection with the murder.
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| March 5, 2002 | -
The sheriff of Flathead County, Montana, described a foiled plot by a right-wing militia to assassinate local authorities, including the dog catcher; the killings would have resulted, according to the plan, in the deployment of National Guard troops, whose deaths were to have sparked a revolution.
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| January 29, 2002 | -
Stop me if you can.” Elie Hobeika, a former Lebanese Christian militia leader, whose men in 1982 massacred hundreds of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps, was assassinated with a car bomb a few days after he confirmed that he would testify against Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon in a war-crimes trial in Belgium.
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| January 22, 2002 | -
The usual carnage continued in the Holy Land after Israel apparently assassinated a Palestinian militia leader.
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| December 18, 2001 | -
Israelis and Palestinians continued to kill one another; a poll showed that 74 percent of Israelis backed their government's “seek-and-kill” policy of assassinating Palestinian militants, though just 22 percent thought it decreased terrorism and 45 percent said it probably increased terror attacks.
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| October 23, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated a Hamas leader while he was praying on his roof. “This is not the first and not the last,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared. A few days later a Palestinian
death squad assassinated Rehavan Zeevi, Israel's minister of tourism, who had been a strong advocate of “transferring” all Palestinians out of the occupied territories.
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| October 2, 2001 | - Thomas L. Friedman, the
New York Times columnist, suggested hiring the Russian Mafia to assassinate
Osama bin Laden.
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| September 18, 2001 | - Congressional leaders declared that spy agencies must be given more freedom to fight terrorism: the freedom to conduct unfettered electronic surveillance, the freedom to hire foreign criminals, the freedom to assassinate the enemy. Ordinary Americans, however, would probably have to give up some of their freedom.
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| September 4, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad using American-made weapons
assassinated Mustafa Zubari, also known as Abu Ali Mustafa, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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| August 7, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated two Hamas leaders along with six others, including two young boys (seven-year-old Bilal Abu Khader and his five-year-old brother, Ashraf) who happened to be walking by when the missiles exploded. “Today is a day of one of our most important successes,” said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Israeli
security forces assassinated five Palestinian soldiers as they prepared a late-night snack, which was a mistake, as it turned out, since the intended targets were stationed in another guardhouse nearby.
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| May 1, 2001 | - Timothy McVeigh said that originally he had wanted to assassinate Attorney General Janet Reno but then decided to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City instead.
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| April 10, 2001 | - A Palestinian man who was suspected of collaborating with Israel was assassinated by three men wearing hoods.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Israeli
security forces assassinated a leader of the militant Hamas movement.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
Israel
assassinated a Palestinian
security official; Prime Minister Ehud Barak congratulated the army on a job well done.
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| January 23, 2001 | -
Congo's President Laurent Kabila was assassinated by one of his bodyguards; Congolese, who recently had taken to exposing their bellies as Kabila drove by, to signify their hunger, evidently were unfazed by the news.
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| January 2, 2001 | -
Israeli soldiers assassinated Dr. Thabet Thabet, a senior Palestinian health official, near his home in the West Bank: Last week, an Israeli general admitted on the radio that the extra-judicial killing of suspected terrorists was an official policy of the Israeli government.
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| January 2, 2001 | - Bulgaria honored Georgy Markov, the dissident writer whom Bulgarian spies assassinated in 1972 by stabbing him, in London, with a poisoned umbrella.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Israel
assassinated a Palestinian paramilitary commander by blowing up his vehicle with missiles fired from helicopter gunships; two women who were standing nearby were also killed. One witness described seeing the women's bodies with “their intestines and livers hanging out.” An Israeli general said that he hoped the assassination would “reduce the violence and bring reason back to this area.” Heavier fighting followed; two Israeli soldiers and more Palestinians, including a twelve-year-old boy, were shot dead.
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| November 7, 2000 | -
Israelis marked the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
Saddam Hussein's decision to send assassins disguised as belly dancers to kill Iraqi exiles in London was denounced by British belly dancers, who said it would undermine their business.
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