Television reports last year mentioned the threat against Mr. Obama, and the plot to kill Gen.

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At one point, Siu himself was arrested, on suspicion of involvement in the plot to kill his friend Wong.

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His involvement in the plot to kill Hussein is unknown outside of Israel, where a Hebrew-language Israeli television documentary in November first illuminated the long-secret story.

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The other thing that happened yesterday was this -- is that there was a United Nations General Assembly resolution put forth, principally sponsored by the Saudis but joined in, I think, by about 40 other countries, Ben, if I'm not mistaken, and passed yesterday deploring the assassination plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.

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Some have been easy for the Vatican to dismiss, such as an anonymous memo outlining a Borgia-esque plot to kill the pope, which struck most people as almost comical in its implausibility.

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Clint Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a tired-looking middle-aged Secret Service agent who gets wind of a plot to kill the President and marshals his flagging powers in an attempt to stop the assassin (John Malkovich).

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The overall plot is engaging. 47 is ordered to kill his former handler, Diana, for reasons explained in the opening cutscene.

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Mikhail Trepashkin, a former counterintelligence colleague of Litvinenko who once warned the ex-spy of a plot to kill him.

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Algerian special forces stormed the plant on Saturday to end the four-day siege, moving in to thwart what government officials said was a plot by the Islamic extremists to blow up the complex and kill all their captives with mines sown throughout the site.

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Abdul Rashid Dostum -- who used the fortress as a headquarters but was not on the site when the revolt began -- toured the site Wednesday, saying the revolt had been a well-planned plot to kill him and other alliance leaders.

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The detective, Armando Saldate, said the friend told him that Debra Milke was involved in a plot to kill her son.

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