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During his two years as a provincial governor in Afghanistan, Arsalah Jamal survived four suicide attacks.
Two elementary schools have opened in Los Angeles at the former site of the Ambassador Hotel, where Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
A Dallas suburb has agreed to pay $175,000 for the house where Lee Harvey Oswald stored the rifle used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
The wanted Saudi militant who attacked the kingdom's anti-terror chief after pretending he wanted to surrender blew himself up while the official was on the phone reassuring another militant in Yemen it would be safe to return home, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
A French far-right activist has been released from prison seven years after attempting to assassinate then-President Jacques Chirac in a Bastille Day attack, a judicial official said Saturday.
A northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for running a classified advertisement calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama.
Bolivian officials were investigating Friday who financed a plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and what an international group of alleged mercenaries — including two fighters from the Balkan wars — were doing in Bolivia.
Relatives of assassinated Philippine opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. accused the president Thursday of denying them justice by pardoning 10 soldiers convicted of the 1983 murder.
It seems as if the gracious couple has told the story a thousand times — how the crack of an assassin's bullet struck the president just a few feet from where they stood.
The head of Israel's internal security service said Sunday he is "very concerned" that Jewish extremists could assassinate an Israeli leader in an attempt to foil peace moves with the Palestinians.
A court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a former Colombian justice minister accused of masterminding the 1989 assassination of presidential candidate and anti-drug cartel crusader Luis Carlos Galan.
Venezuelan authorities have arrested two people suspected of plotting to kill Hugo Chavez by blowing up the president's plane with an anti-tank weapon, the country's top security official said Wednesday.
Snipers fired on the motorcade for Pakistan's prime minister on Wednesday as it drove to the airport to pick him up, striking his car window at least twice, officials said. Neither the prime minister nor his staff were in the vehicles.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend still doesn't like to talk publicly about her memories of the June 6, 1968, death of her father, Robert F. Kennedy.
Pakistani police on Saturday formally accused the top Taliban leader in the country and four others of planning the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
A longtime prosecutor agreed while he was in office to give filmmakers access to documents connected to President Kennedy's assassination and helped form a company to take part in the venture, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Security officials on Thursday reported uncovering plots to kill President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and bomb foreign embassies, just as opposition leaders were calling for more protests urging the unpopular Philippines leader to resign.
For the Boy Scout who dreams of becoming a policeman, grabbing the knife of a would-be assassin lunging for the president of the Maldives was a crash course in cop-like heroics.
A quick-thinking Boy Scout foiled an assassination attempt on the president of the Maldives on Tuesday, grabbing an attacker's knife as the man leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader, an official said.
Palestinian gunmen planned to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when he went to the West Bank in August to meet with the Palestinian president, a security chief told Israel's Cabinet on Sunday, a meeting participant said.
New testing on the type of ammunition used in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy raises questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a study by researchers at Texas A&M University.
A recently discovered home movie showing President John F. Kennedy's motorcade shortly before his assassination was unveiled Monday on the Web site of a Dallas museum.
Former evangelist: Religious right is "trawling for assassins"Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper stickers, tshirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."
Drive%2Dby%20shooting%20apparently%20targeted%20Seattle%20police%20at%20randomSeattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton assassinated in a drive by shooting while seated in patrol car on Saturday Oc.t 31.
Man Sentenced For Threatening To Kill Former Pres. BushHAMMOND, La. -- A Hammond man will spend a year in prison for threatening to kill former president George W. Bush.
Interview with Colombian HitmenDuring our time with the hit men they offered a fascinating insight into their violent world -- from how much they get paid to what their mothers think of their lifestyle:
The Political Carnival: Secret Service probing Facebook poll on ObamaGreat work here by this blogger. Was right on top of this from the get go. Great work capturing the screenshot. Follow the blogger on twitter. The username is @gottalaff
Play the Race Card: Why We Need to Talk About Obama and Racism Let me say this clearly so there are no misunderstandings: some of the protests against President Obama are howls of rage at the fact that we have an African-American head of state.
Obama is Just a SlaveThe cheers of crowds in the US and the ROW ("Rest of the World") upon hearing the news of the election of the first black US president are still ringing in my ears. How happy, no, how elated all those folks were! Their joy knew no bounds.
Exclusive: 27-Year CIA Vet says Obama May be Afraid of the CIA ... For Good Reason...Alluding to the assassination of JFK, long-time high-level CIA analyst says Panetta and the President 'afraid of these guys because these guys have a whole lot to lose if justice takes its course'...
Hunting Wolves, and Men - Timothy Egan Blog - NYTimes.comThey started hunting gray wolves in the high reaches of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday, the first time in years that people have been allowed to shoot for sport this genetic cousin of man's best friend.
Countdown: Dan Savage on the Dangers of the GOP Pandering to the Religious Rightexcerpt: ""Olbermann: How do they twist the idea of say, just pick a figure out of a hat here that Jesus Christ and the golden rule, taking care of particularly the sick and turn this into opposition to health care? In a sense if they're trying to emulate Christ, if they can …
CIA's Ties With Blackwater Run Deep -- News from Antiwar.comBlackwater's Job Wasn't Confined to Assassination Program
The CIA Outsourced Its 2004 Death Squad Work To Blackwater. The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.
Blackwater tied to CIA assassination plotSounds to me like the CIA is understaffed if they need to contract out help locating and killing bad guys.
Blackwater 'hired for CIA plan'The CIA hired contractors from the US private security firm Blackwater as part of a secret programme to track and kill top al-Qaeda figures, reports say.
Threat of Obama Assassination must be taken seriously | The News is NowPublic.com
I was at the pro-peace demonstration in 1995 when Rabin was murdered.
Brazil Crime Show Host May Have Ordered Killings to Boost RatingsIn one murder after another, the Canal Livre TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim.
Ukraine finds 'reporter's skull'Ukrainian investigators say they have found skull fragments believed to be those of the journalist, Georgiy Gongadze, who was decapitated in 2000.
Cheney's Hit-Squad Plan Shows Law Is for SissiesCheney for decades had complained of legal restraints on executive powers prompted by gross abuses of the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Nixon White House, so he simply ignored them.
Obama ignores the Bush years...lies, lies and more liesWhenever he's asked about the scandals of America's war on terror -- the torture, the wrongful detentions, the legal corners cut -- President Obama has responded with some version of this statement: "We have to focus on getting things right in the future as opposed to looking at …
CIA Assassin Program Was Nearing New PhaseCIA officials were proposing to activate a plan to train anti-terrorist assassination teams overseas when agency managers brought the secret program to the attention of CIA Director Leon Panetta last month, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
War hero Patton 'murdered by the CIA'SECOND World War hero General George S Patton was murdered by an American assassin to cover up Allied blunders which cost thousands of lives, according to a new book.
CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Assassination Plan"By SIOBHAN GORMAN WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with th …
Was The CIA Hiding Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring"?The revelation from seven Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that they were misled about a critical CIA program has sparked a debate that touches on the most sensitive areas of national security policy.
Russia orders retrial in murdered journalist caseRussia's supreme court has ordered a new trial of the suspects in the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya after annulling February acquittals.
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