If you look at political assassinations, Indira Gandhi was assassinated and her son Rajiv Gandhi was too, and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh also faced a serious assassination attempt.
And most of it remains just that – speculation, albeit of a kind that has fuelled character assassinations from those circling the wagons around the intelligence agencies.
Sara's diary is a reflection of the perils in the city she lives in – Karachi – where an average of eight people are killed in assassinations and clashes between rival factions every day.
They also offer an insight into how traumatising the Kennedy assassinations were at the time – something we can almost obscure with hindsight, revisionism, and conspiracy theories.
The almost universal view among Irish nationalists was that the killings were a deliberate reprisal against unarmed civilians for the assassinations of the intelligence officers earlier in the day.
Such a consensus would be all the more valuable because worrying rumours and suspicions are being fed by other matters, including the Ebola epidemic and a handful of assassinations and attempted assassinations of politicians and administrators.
Security and government officials have been victims of a wave of assassinations.
The ceasefire and amnesty had been in place for several years, although as recently as 2007 there had been a wave of deadly bombings and assassinations.
As Gaddafi's intelligence chief and right-hand man for four decades, the 64-year-old supervised torture, assassinations and town-square hangings.
Nor are the judges convinced that the government in Tripoli, seemingly helpless amid assassinations and militia violence in Libya, is able to hold such a trial.
The secular opposition, angered by two assassinations in its ranks and emboldened by the army-backed toppling of Egypt's Islamist president, is trying to topple Tunisia's Islamist-led government and dissolve the Constituent Assembly.
