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assassination stories: 88 news summaries

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 Obama Defends Handshake, 
 Urges Cuba to Free Prisoners 

Bolivian prez accuses US of assassination plot

Apr 19, 09 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama defended his friendly chat with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and asked Cuba to free its political prisoners, the Wall Street Journal reports. At the close of the Summit of the America's today, Obama brushed off Republican criticism, saying that turning a new page with Venezuela and Cuba represents... More »

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Barack Obama • Latin America • Venezuela • Mexico • Cuba • Bolivia • Mexican drug war • assassination • Evo Morales • political prisoner • Hugo Chávez • microfinance

(Newser) - The Bush administration ran a secret team authorized to assassinate foreign targets without being accountable to Congress, says New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh. On CNN's Situation Room, he said the hit squad could go "into a country without telling the CIA station chief or the ambassador and whack someone.... More »

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War on Terror • Dick Cheney • US military • assassination • George W. Bush • Special Forces • Joint Special Operations Command • Seymour M. Hersh

 Mexican Mayor Assassinated 

Just as US arrests 750 in crackdown on Mexican drug cartel

Feb 26, 09 5:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The mayor of Vista Hermosa in Mexican President Felipe Calderon's home province was ambushed and killed by gunmen last night, CNN reports. The mayor, who survived an assassination attempt last week, is the second mayor in the province to be killed in eight months. The assassination came as US Attorney... More »

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Mexico • Felipe Calderon • mayor • Mexican drug war • assassination • drug cartel • Sinaloa drug cartel

 Unprecedented Security 
 Watches Over DC 

Record staff, supplies needed to counter crowds, threats

Jan 20, 09 10:07 AM CST
(Newser) - It is an almost unimaginably difficult job: as Washington floods with millions of visitors, the Secret Service has to comb through and pick out all potential sources of danger to the new president. This means, as the London Times reports, a record five tons of bulletproof glass, tens of thousands... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington DC • Secret Service • assassination • inauguration • campaign security • President Obama

Man Nabbed in Mississippi for Obama Threats

Wisc. native faces
5 years in prison
for online posts

Jan 17, 09 5:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A Wisconsin man was arrested in Mississippi yesterday after posting online threats to kill Barack Obama, the Daily Leader reports. Steven Joseph Christopher, 43, had written “ok we have 9 days until my Presidential Assasination” in an expletive-filled, anti-Semitic posting on the website alien-earth.org. He referred to Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • Wisconsin • death threats • assassination • Mississippi • website

Pakistan Mourns Bhutto on Anniversary of Slaying

Government calls for UN to probe former PM's assasssination

Dec 27, 08 2:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have traveled to Benazir Bhutto's hometowm to mark the first anniversary of her assassination, Reuters reports. The former prime minister was killed in a gun and bomb attack at an election rally a year ago today. Many questions still surround the killing and the country's... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • People's Power Party • Asif Ali Zardari • Bhutto assassination

BOOK REVIEW

 45 Years Later, 
 JFK Theories Live On 

New book on JFK assassination offers new ideas, little proof

Nov 23, 08 3:20 PM CST
(Newser) - In the canon of great conspiracy theories, the JFK assassination remains unquestionably king. The enduring national mystery has given rise to some of the most complicated explanations, and the theory offered by a new book is one of the more pleasingly convoluted, reports Vanity Fair in a look at Legacy ... More »

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Fidel Castro • assassination • Martin Luther King Jr. • book reviews • JFK assassination • conspiracy theory • Robert F. Kennedy

 Threats Against Obama Soar 

Obama threatened more than any previous president-elect

Nov 15, 08 4:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Law enforcement officials say Barack Obama is the most threatened president-elect in history, the AP reports. Potentially threatening writings, Internet chatter, and other activity aimed at Obama has soared since Election Day, accompanied by a surge in racist graffiti. Officials say most of the threats come from ranters lacking the... More »

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Barack Obama • Secret Service • death threats • threats • assassination • white supremacism • hate groups • President Obama

 Writer Marked by 
 Mob to Flee Italy 

Mob wants author dead by Christmas

Oct 16, 08 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A best-selling author who has become a target of Italian mobsters is fleeing Italy, reports the Guardian. Writer Roberto Saviano, 28, has spent the last two years as a virtual prisoner in army barracks, surrounded by bodyguards protecting him from a Neapolitan mob family. Saviano's book, Gomorra, now an... More »

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Naples • literature • assassination • Camorra • Roberto Saviano • Gomorra • Casal di Principe • Oscars

3 Charged in Plot to Kill Brown

Suspects face murder, terror charges after online threats to PM

Aug 29, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three British citizens have been charged with terror offenses for allegedly plotting to assassinate Gordon Brown, the Guardian reports. The suspects, who will appear in court in London today, belong to a group calling itself Al-Qaeda in Britain. They are accused of everything from soliciting murder to inviting support of... More »

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Tony Blair • terrorism • Gordon Brown • assassination • assassination attempt • al-Qaeda • terror websites

Cops Foil
Possible Plot
Against Obama

Three men arrested; one said they were planning assassination

Aug 25, 08 11:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Colorado authorities say at least three people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to assassinate Barack Obama during his acceptance speech Thursday at Invesco Field, the Rocky Mountain News reports. Four weapons, including two high-powered scope rifles, have been seized. Sources told Denver's 9NEWS that the suspects... More »

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Barack Obama • Democratic National Convention • assassination • assassination attempt • Invesco Field

Fla. Man Pleads Not Guilty to Threatening Bush, Obama

Giesel tight-lipped
at hearing

Aug 20, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(AP) - A man who authorities said kept an arsenal of weaponry and military gear pleaded not guilty today to threatening to assassinate both President Bush and Barack Obama. Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, spoke only his name and age as his court-appointed lawyer entered the plea. Geisel had previously been charged with... More »

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Barack Obama • court • threats • assassination • plea • George W. Bush

(AP) - Federal authorities today arrested a Florida man on charges of threatening to assassinate Barack Obama. Raymond Hunter Geisel was ordered held without bail today at a brief court hearing. The Secret Service says Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in late July. More »

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Barack Obama • assassination • Raymond Hunter Geisel

Karadzic Blasts 'Witch Hunt,' Says US Wants to Kill Him

Ex-Bosnian leader claims he cut a deal with Washington

Aug 1, 08 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Radovan Karadzic says he can't possibly get a fair trial at the Hague because a “media witch hunt” has already proclaimed him a war criminal, the BBC reports. In a document submitted to the war crimes tribunal, Karadzic cited “drastic irregularities” in his arrest and accused the US... More »

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Bosnia • The Hague • international war crimes tribunal • Muslim • assassination • Radovan Karadzic • Richard Holbrooke

 40 Years Later,
 RFK's Children
 Remember 

Three Kennedy kids recall father's empathy, justice

Jun 5, 08 9:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - To mark the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, 40 years ago today, the New York Times offers vignettes from three of his children—Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II, and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend—of life with their father. For Kerry, RFK was the arbiter of fairness, whose teachings in... More »

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family • assassination • Kathleen Kennedy Townsend • Kennedy family • Robert F. Kennedy • 1968

 Questions Linger
 About Sirhan Sirhan 

40 years on, conspiracy theorists still wonder about RFK's shooting

Jun 3, 08 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of assassinating Robert Kennedy 40 years ago this week, remains behind bars in California. Police at the time called the killing an open-and-shut case, but over the years so many have expressed doubts about the prosecution's version of events that the investigation may yet be reopened. The... More »

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assassination • assassin • conspiracy theory • Robert F. Kennedy • Sirhan Sirhan

Fox News Guest Jokes About Killing Obama

'Many of us are making mistakes,' journalist says in apologizing

May 26, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Fox News analyst yesterday laughingly suggested on the air that Barack Obama be "knocked off." Commenting on Hillary Clinton's recent remarks about RFK's assassination, Liz Trotta referred to "what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama—well, both, if we... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Fox News • assassination • Obama 2008 • Robert F. Kennedy • Liz Trotta

OPINION

 Goldwater Vs. JFK Echoes in '08 

Obama vs. McCain recalls race that never happened in '64

May 21, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The coming Obama/McCain matchup is an echo of another presidential bout, David Talbot writes for Salon—one that never happened between JFK and Barry Goldwater in 1964. Then as now, a young idealist takes on a seasoned ex-soldier over negotiation with hostile governments, to debate a fundamental question of whether... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • John F. Kennedy • Barry Goldwater • assassination • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • presidential election • appeasement

Zimbabwe Army Said to Plot Killing of Opposition Chief

Snipers would have gunned down MDC leader Tsvangirai on return

May 19, 08 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Zimbabwe’s military has a plan to assassinate opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, according to Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change. An MDC official said today that the armed forces been ruling Zimbabwe since the March 29 election, and would have had snipers gun down Tsvangirai had he returned to the... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • assassination • Zimbabwe elections • Zanu-PF • MDC

 Mexico's Top Drug Cop
 Assassinated 

Cartel reportedly behind early-morning killing of Edgar Millan Gomez

May 8, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The official leading Mexico's anti-drug efforts was gunned down early this morning, the Los Angeles Times, shot eight times after arriving at his Mexico City home from work. Mexican outlets reported that the so-called Sinaloa cartel is behind the death of Edgar Millan Gomez, 42; he's the third high-ranking federal... More »

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Mexico • Mexican drug war • assassination • drug cartel • Edgar Millan Gomez • Sinaloa drug cartel

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