Recent assassinations
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Sept. 19, 2007: Ghanem, 64, an anti-Syria lawmaker from the Christian Phalange Party, is killed in a blast in Beirut. Six others also die.
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And recent history repeats itself.
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BAGHDAD - Sunni extremists appear to have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, and other Interior Ministry officials throughout Iraq, with at least 10 attacks in the last 48 hours.
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Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said today. But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."
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Who was behind last week's resort bombing in Egypt?
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Five others appeared in London yesterday.One - Parviz Khan - is accused of plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier.Police have revealed they have seized over four-and-a-half thousand exhibits - including computers and mobile phones.  (c) 2007 Belfast Telegraph.
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Anti-Syrian Cabinet minister killed in shooting in Beirut suburb making him the third prominent Lebanese figure to be assassinated in the past two years
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By Hugh Macleod in Damascus and Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem. Hamas leaders pledged bloody retaliation yesterday after one of its senior figures in Damascus was assassinated in an attack widely read as a new
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By Kevin J. O'Brien and Thomas  Crampton  Thomas Crampton reported from Paris.  *  In the latest example of a U.S.
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A mayor whose administration is under federal investigation. An alderman who just got hit with a federal bribery charge. Four politicians who served time for corruption and want their old jobs back.
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Two beheaded bodies, one wrapped in tires and set ablaze, turned up in Haiti&#39;s capital, officials said yesterday, the latest victims of violence fueled by supporters of an ousted president.
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A few things you may not have caught in last week's news.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Margaret Hassan has been murdered. That is the most probable conclusion from a video given to Al Jazeera yesterday. For one who met her and got to know her, even if just
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Â· 'Political assassination' sparks fresh violenceÂ· UN secretary general warns of catastrophe
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GAZA GUNMEN TRY TO KILL INTELLIGENCE CHIEFâ Three masked Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a convoy carrying the deputy Palestinian intelligence chief in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding him the chest and killing at least one member of his entourage
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UNITED NATIONS -- When former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri was assassinated nearly three years ago, the United States and France prodded the U.N. Security Council into ordering a U.N. inquiry into the killing within 24 hours.