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 Death of Sadr Aide
 Sparks Battles
 in Baghdad 

Iraqi prez condemns attacks but meets al-Sadr MPs

Apr 11, 08 8:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The murder of a Moqtada al-Sadr aide triggered heavy fighting in Baghdad today after al-Sadr’s men attacked US and Iraqi forces, Reuters reports. The cleric blamed “the hand of the occupier” for the death of Riyadh al-Nuri, a close relative, and vowed not to forget “this precious... More »

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Iraq • Sadr City • Baghdad • Mahdi Army • Basra • Najaf • assassination • US Army • Jalal Talabani • Iraq Army • Muqtada al-Sadr • Iraq war

 Jackson Recalls MLK,
 Targets Urban Youth 

New initiative launched at site of King's final speech

Apr 4, 08 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson was outside the Lorraine Motel when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, 40 years ago today, and the sound of the gunshot still echoes in his memory. Jackson talks with the Chicago Sun-Times about that day, and how race relations have "detoxified"  in the ensuing years.... More »

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Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • race relations • assassination • Martin Luther King Jr. • civil rights movement

OPINION

 King Would Relish 
 Today's Challenges 

40 years after civil-rights leader's death, Jesse Jackson finds message undimmed

Apr 3, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - With tomorrow marking the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Rev. Jesse Jackson pens an appreciation for the New York Daily News. Jackson worked with the civil-rights giant in 1968 on King's last, tragically unfulfilled project, the Poor People’s Campaign. "He'd keep on dreaming and... More »

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education • race • Jesse Jackson • African Americans • assassination • Martin Luther King Jr. • health care reform

16 Arrested
in Plot to Kill Turkish Laureate

Journalist, party leader involved in plan to murder writer Pamuk

Mar 21, 08 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - A nationalist party leader, a veteran journalist, and a top academic have been arrested over a plan to kill dissident Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. The leader of the Workers’ Party and former rector of Istanbul University, along with a general, and retired colonel, are among 16 who were detained over... More »

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Turkey • Kurds • assassination • Istanbul • Armenian genocide • Orhan Pamuk

Spanish PM: Basque Group Killed Pol

Eta separatists trying
to disrupt elections, Zapatero says

Mar 8, 08 6:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Spain’s Prime Minister is blaming Basque separatist group Eta for the shooting death of a party functionary a day before national elections, the BBC reports. Jose Zapatero, whose Socialist Party is expected to win the contest, painted Isaias Carrasco’s murder as an attempt to disrupt elections, but vowed... More »

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Spain • Eta • Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero • assassination • Spanish elections • Basque separatists • Spain terror attacks • Isaias Carrasco

For Obama Faithful, Fears Cloud Hopes

Evoking memories
of King, Kennedys stirs anxieties over safety

Feb 25, 08 10:15 AM CST
(Newser) - "Stop worrying," Barack Obama tells supporters. “I've got the best protection in the world.” But they're worrying anyway: Even as supporters have watched their candidate rocket from longshot to frontrunner, their anxieties about a possible assassination attempt have grown, the New York Times reports. “Some... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • Secret Service • John F. Kennedy • assassination • Martin Luther King Jr. • JFK assassination • presidential candidates • Robert F. Kennedy

Terror Leader Killed in Gaza

Israeli military denies involvement in death of Palestinian Islamic Jihad chieftain

Feb 15, 08 6:32 PM CST
(Newser) - A leading member of terrorist group Islamic Jihad was killed today in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reports. Ayman Fayed and at least seven others were killed in an explosion that leveled a house where Fayed was staying. The Israeli army denied involvement, but Palestinian leaders saw the attack as Israel... More »

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Gaza • assassination • terrorist • Islamic Jihad • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike

Who Killed This Terrorist? No Clues, Lots of Enemies

Israelis, Americans, others had reason to want Imad Mughniyah dead

Feb 13, 08 8:44 PM CST
(Newser) - So many parties had a motive for killing Hezbollah mastermind Imad Mughniyah that it’s unclear who assassinated him last night in Syria, Time reports. The Lebanon-based terror group blamed the assassination in Damascus on Israel, which denied involvement. Said one insider, “The Americans wanted him, so did the... More »

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Israel • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Hezbollah • assassination • terrorist • Imad Mughniyah

Top Hezbollah Militant Killed

FBI was offering $25 million for man suspected in TWA incident

Feb 13, 08 7:34 AM CST
(Newser) - A notorious Hezbollah commander was killed by a car bomb late last night in Damascus, the group said today, ending his reign of high-profile terror attacks that included the 1985 TWA hijacking, the 1992 Israeli embassy bombings, and the killing of more than 200 Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s.... More »

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Israel • Syria • Hezbollah • car bomb • assassination • Damascus • Imad Mughniyeh

UPDATED

UK Probe: Blast Killed Bhutto

She died from head injury caused by blast, says Scotland Yard

Feb 8, 08 6:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Scotland Yard detectives investigating the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have concluded that the cause of death was not a bullet, but the massive head injury she sustained when she was thrown by the suicide bomb blast. The findings mesh with the Pakistan government's version of the killing... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • suicide bomber • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • Asif Ali Zardari • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Slain Kenyan Pol a Key to Peace

Multi-ethnic opposition MP was would-be peacemaker

Jan 30, 08 11:25 AM CST
(Newser) - The Kenyan opposition lawmaker who was dragged from his car yesterday and shot to death could have been key to ending the ethnically charged turmoil, reports the New York Times, but his assassination instead further plunged the country into violent chaos. Melitus Mugabe Were had been working toward peace, able... More »

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Kenya • assassination • Kikuyu • Raila Odinga • ethnic violence • Melitus Mugabe Were

Teen Busted in Bhutto Killing

Youth says he was part of team dispatched by militant linked to al-Qaeda

Jan 19, 08 9:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistani authorities have arrested a teenage suspect in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, reports the AP. The 15-year-old said he was part of a five-person team sent to Rawalpindi by Baitullah Mehsud, a militant tribal leader affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said. A spokesman... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • Pakistan militants • al-Qaeda

CIA Chief Names Groups Behind Bhutto Assassination

Pakistani militants, al-Qaeda blamed

Jan 18, 08 12:41 PM CST
(Newser) - The CIA director blames a cooperative effort by al-Qaeda and a group of Pakistani militants for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Washington Post reports. The conclusion jibes with the explanation Pervez Musharraf has offered, though some Pakistanis still suspect the president and his government had a hand in the... More »

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CIA • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Michael Hayden • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • militant • Baitullah Mehsud

Boy Scout Saves Maldives President From Assassin

15-year-old blocks knife-wielding assailant

Jan 8, 08 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - A 15-year-old boy scout saved the Maldives president from an assassination attempt today, wrestling the assailant to the ground. AFP reports that a 20-year-old man brandishing a knife went after Maumoon Abdul Gayoom while he was visiting one of the archipelago's northern islands. Police are currently trying to establish the... More »

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Islamic militants • assassination • Maldives • assassination attempt • Maumoon Abdul Gayoom • archipelago • assassin

Bhutto's Death Her Own Fault: Musharraf

'It was she to blame alone—nobody else,'  tells '60 Minutes'

Jan 7, 08 6:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has absolved his own government—and everyone else—of culpability in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, telling "60 Minutes" that she alone was to blame for her death. "For standing up outside the car, I think it was she to blame alone—nobody else.... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • Bhutto assassination

Musharraf: Bhutto Endangered Herself

Pakistani president blames recklessness

Jan 3, 08 2:10 PM CST
(Newser) - President Pervez Musharraf dismissed accusations today that Pakistan's government was involved in the Dec. 27 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, citing extensive security provided to the ex-prime minister as well as careless disregard for her own safety. “There is no complicity,” he said of the killing. “Would I... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Scotland Yard • Benazir Bhutto • assassination

Pakistan Delays Vote to Feb. 18 After Violence

Musharraf asks London police for help in Bhutto assassination probe

Jan 2, 08 11:16 AM CST
(Newser) - On the day Pakistan announced it had rescheduled parliamentary elections for Feb. 18 in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, President Pervez Musharraf has asked Scotland Yard to "solve all the confusion" surrounding her death, CNN reports. The country's election commission said the wave of violence after Bhutto's assassination... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Scotland Yard • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan People's Party • Pakistan elections • Bhutto assassination

Police Stopped Bhutto Autopsy: Hospital Rep

Top cop says
ex-PM's husband
nixed post-mortem

Dec 31, 07 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - The Rawalpindi police chief prevented doctors from performing an autopsy on Benazir Bhutto, according to an open letter issued today by a representative of the hospital where she died. Chief Aziz Saud invoked the investigators' “exclusive responsibility,” CNN reports, but Saud says Bhutto's husband objected. The lack of... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • Pakistan People's Party • Rawalpindi • Asif Ali Zardari • Aziz Saud

Bhutto Slumped as Shots Rang Out: Video

Husband calls official version of cause of death "useless excuse"

Dec 31, 07 5:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Newly released videotape of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto bolsters Bhutto's supporters' claim that the Pakistani opposition leader was killed by gunshot wounds and not—as the government insists—by hitting her head on her car sunroof when a bomb exploded. The video shows Bhutto slumping forward after gunshots ring... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • suicide bombing • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • Asif Ali Zardari

Bloggers Blast Government Version of Bhutto Death

We're not 'naive and dumb,' snaps one

Dec 31, 07 3:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan's political blogging community is expressing extreme skepticism about government statements as to how former prime minister Benazir Bhutto died in last week's assassination attack. The government is claiming Bhutto died after hitting her head on her car’s sunroof in the bomb attack, but the theory is widely disputed,... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • blogger • al-Qaeda

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