During the course of the investigation, after Kurz seemed to make contradictory statements, the police began to suspect he had staged the assassination attempt in order to increase his popularity with locals and visitors.
"Israel was looking for a way to assassinate Hariri in order to create political chaos that would force Syria to withdraw from Lebanon, and to perpetuate an anti-Syrian atmosphere in the wake of the assassination," he said.
In the past, Israel has frequently used assassination as a weapon in order to avoid launching large-scale military operations.
Popish Plot, (1678), in English history, a totally fictitious but widely believed plot in which it was alleged that Jesuits were planning the assassination of King Charles II in order to bring his Roman Catholic brother, the Duke of York (afterward King James II), to the throne.
In fact, Ottoman history is peppered with sons of sultans ordering assassinations against each other in order to take the throne. .
That's what he did on the day that he allegedly orchestrated the ambush and assassination of his immediate superior, in order to seize his position.
I do not think, as some commentators seem to, that the cautious, reactive Obama Administration has set the Iranians up with the assassination story — framed the Revolutionary Guard in order to provoke a war on the eve of the American Presidential election.
Berkman chose to carry out the assassination, and ordered Goldman to stay behind in order to explain his motives after he went to jail.
In May 1985, Rajneesh's personal secretary and second-in-command, Sheela Silverman (Ma Anand Sheela), gathered the leader's key followers and formed a group of conspirators in order to plan the assassination of Turner, as well as several dissidents among their organization.
