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According to U.S. intelligence reports, the Iranians two months ago circulated a list of 600 Iraqi officers who are targeted for assassination because of their role in the Iraq-Iran war.

His death in Deptford in May 1593, aged 29, has provoked years of speculation, from the Queen ordering his assassination because of his atheism, to his being killed by a love rival.

He once prosecuted a notorious drug cartel in Tijuana, Mexico, and was apparently targeted for assassination because of it.

"President Bush is the target, metaphorically speaking, of a political assassination because of 16 words that he uttered in the State of the Union," Ramirez said.

Those 19 either died in the line of duty or were deliberately targeted for assassination because of their reporting or their affiliation with a news organization.

Netanyahu first secured the prime ministership in 1996, defeating pro-peace Shimon Peres after Rabin's assassination, because of a murderous wave of Palestinian suicide bombings -- again overwhelmingly conducted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad in which hundreds of Israelis were murdered.

The only reason VandeAllen are serving this up now is because this weekend, Washington plays host to the annual Masque Of The Red Death White House Correspondents Dinnerr, which is always a good occasion to carry out a clandestine assassination because all of Washington's self-absorbed reporters are paying even less attention to the world around them than they already do.

The retired officer said that extremist websites indicated that he had been the target of eight assassination attempts because of his leadership of the operation against militants holed up in the holiest Sikh shrine in 1984.

He was excoriated by Muslims and remained under threat of assassination because he had joined Sadat in 1977 on the historic journey to Jerusalem and afterwards played a key role in the Camp David negotiations between Egypt and Israel.

It explains the failure to unearth evidence of assassination: because state-appointed aviation experts conducted the investigation, their conclusion that it had been an accident proves that the state remains in the hands of the perpetrators (Law and Justice defence minister Antoni Macierewicz described their investigation as the greatest cover-up "in the history of the world").

Jay recalls going to Dallas, to the scene of John F. Kennedy's assassination, because he wanted to see "where somebody had moved from the fantasy stage over to the reality stage". Mr. Baker's novel is a fantasy, not a blueprint, but its clumsy tone makes it seem more like a rant than what it is: a risky failure.