Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated and there have been mysterious explosions in the country.
People innocent--they are just in their houses--having been taken out, having been assassinated from short distances.
French officials said he was believed to have been assassinated days earlier during a failed rescue attempt.
In 2011, Fox News saw its Twitter account compromised and used to send a fake message that President Obama had been assassinated.
Robert Kennedy, the Democratic presidential candidate who had been assassinated days earlier.
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So far this year, 18 officials have been assassinated across Yemen, many in broad daylight by assailants on motorcycles, the Defense Ministry said.
That bill follows threats of criminal prosecution against the site Noticieros Digital, which briefly hosted false rumors that a Venezuelan official had been assassinated.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 17 journalists in Russia, including Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known critic of the regime, have been assassinated since 2000.
Also, in the post-Gadhafi turmoil in Libya, several diplomats, relief agencies and churches have come under attack and scores of Libyan security officials have been assassinated.
The healthcare system is also a cause for concern, because central accountability systems are absent and because many doctors have either emigrated or have been assassinated.
Thirteen journalists have been assassinated since Putin came to power, including investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, which has had the effect of silencing most public critics against the government.
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Fourteen candidates who were standing in the elections have been assassinated, an two of Iraq's 18 provinces will not participate in the polls because of the level of insecurity there.
He says that his party has not ruled out a dialogue with the rebels, even though numerous UNP leaders have been assassinated by the Tamil Tigers over the last 17 years.
But they face opposition from hardliners and are assumed to be hobbled by Pakistan, and by the lesson of two leading moderates who have been assassinated in the past 13 months.
In one instance, the IRS received a court order demanding that the IRS produce tax records for a list of individuals who had been assassinated by an organized crime figure convicted under the RICO statute.
If Moammar Gadhafi had been assassinated in a drone strike or raid within two days of Benghazi falling to rebel forces, his own tribes would surely have been demoralized and been forced into a compromise.
Hezbollah's protective ally, Iran, is enduring harsh economic sanctions from the West over its controversial nuclear program, and a number of Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated, as have a few key figures in the Hezbollah hierarchy.
Admittedly, violent attacks on prominent figures were quite frequent: one American president had been assassinated in 1865 (Lincoln) and another in 1881 (Garfield), and seven attempts were made on Queen Victoria's life before her reign ended in 1901, none of them by anarchists.
Meanwhile, Iranian scientists have been jailed or assassinated (including two associated with Sesame).
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"Had I been a terrorist I could have assassinated him at any moment, " he wrote in Friday's newspaper.
It shot to fame towards the close of the war when Mr Wickrematunge was assassinated by men who have never been caught.
Their families have been threatened, their family members abducted, raped, even assassinated, in revenge for the work that they have done.
His return had been delayed by concerns among Italian security forces that he could be assassinated.
Meanwhile, a Pakistani provincial official said at least 44 people had been killed during unrest in the country's Sindh province since Bhutto was assassinated.
Immigration has been a hotly debated issue in the Netherlands since radical politician Pim Fortuyn, who was later assassinated, called for an end to immigration two years ago.
Mrs Gandhi the widow of one assassinated ex-prime minister and the daughter-in-law of another has been an ineffectual and aloof leader of the opposition.
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