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assassination stories: 88 news summaries

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Castro: We Saved Reagan's Life

Dictator claims Cuba foiled an assassination attempt

Sep 13, 07 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fidel Castro says Cuba helped the US avert an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1984. An essay attributed to the ailing dictator says a Cuban posted to the UN tipped off an American official to the plot, which involved a presidential visit to North Carolina, the Telegraph reports. How... More »

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Pentagon • Fidel Castro • Cuba • September 11 • Ronald Reagan • assassination • rocket

Wallace Assailant Earns Release

Man who fired bullet that paralyzed Alabama gov has served 35 years

Aug 23, 07 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man who shot George Wallace in 1972 and later called him a "segregationist dinosaur" will be released from prison later this year after serving 35 years of a 53-year sentence, the AP reports. The Alabama governor was forced to drop out of the presidential race after a bullet... More »

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prison • Alabama • assassination • release • George Wallace • Segregation • Arthur Bremer • shooting

Bomb Kills
2nd Iraqi Governor

Top provincial official slain in his SUV, police blame Mahdi Army

Aug 20, 07 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The governor of Muthanna province was killed by a roadside bomb today—a little more than a week after another Iraqi governor was assassinated. Mohammed Ali al-Hassani's SUV was struck en route to his office in the morning. Police are blaming Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, which has clashed with the... More »

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Iraq • Shiite • Sadr City • Mahdi Army • civil war • roadside bomb • bomb • assassination • Mohammed Ali al Hassani • Muthanna • Muqtada al-Sadr

Newspaper Editor Assassinated

Reporter murdered in broad daylight

Aug 2, 07 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The editor of an Oakland newspaper was shot dead in broad daylight today in what police say they believe was a contracted hit, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Chauncey Bailey was a fixture in the African-American community, known for aggressive coverage of issues and confrontational interviews with city officials. But... More »

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murder • assassination • black community • hitman • Oakland Post • Oakland • Chauncey Bailey • journalist

US Shuts Out Troublemaking Syrians

Travel ban represents vote of confidence in Lebanese government

Jun 29, 07 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush moved to boost the Lebanese government today, barring officials who have acted to undermine the precarious regime from entering the US. The ban applies to some high-level Syrian officials and five former Lebanese cabinet ministers, Reuters reports. An NSC spokesman said the goal is "to demonstrate to... More »

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Lebanon • Syria • Vladimir Putin • assassination • travel ban • George W. Bush

UN Will Try Accused Assassins of Ex-Lebanese PM

Divided Security Council OKs tribunal

May 31, 07 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - A UN tribunal will try suspects in the 2005 assassination of the ex-PM of Lebanon, raising fears of worsening unrest in the unstable country. Five members abstained from yesterday's Security Council vote, signaling a serious rift. And Syria, which has been implicated in the suicide truck-bomb attack that killed Rafik... More »

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United Nations • Lebanon • Syria • assassination • Fouad Siniora • Rafiq al-Hariri • UN Security Council

Court Convicts 12 of Serbian PM's Murder

Gangsters, secret police guilty of 2003 assassination

May 23, 07 8:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Belgrade court convicted twelve men of the murder of Zoran Djindjic, the pro-Western PM of Serbia who was gunned down in 2003. The dozen defendants included alleged mobsters and members of the secret police; the two ringleaders will go away for 40 years after what Serbs called the "... More »

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Serbia • murder • Zoran Djindjic • The Hague • conspiracy • Slobodan Milosevic • Belgrade • assassination

FBI Expert Reopens JFK Shooting

Bullet analysis used to rule out second
gunman is now discredited

May 17, 07 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Evidence proving that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone has been discredited by a research team using techniques unavailable to previous investigators. Bullet analysis used to rule out a second JFK assassin is called "fundamentally flawed" by the new team, led by the former chief metallurgy expert for the FBI,... More »

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FBI • John F. Kennedy • Lee Harvey Oswald • assassination • conspiracy theory

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