Another attempt, using subtler techniques, was approved in 2009.
He made a second attempt using pieces of an 18th-century Chippendale period clothes press.
Hardly a day goes by without an assassination attempt using a sticky bomb, a relatively new mode of attack.
The first attempt using yellow and pink plastic resulted in a "tequila sunrise" effect, not the "Venetian sunset" Jayne was hoping for.
While Islamist militants have repeatedly targeted senior government officials in suicide and bomb attacks, an assassination attempt using biological weapons would be an anomaly.
On Dec. 18, an assassination attempt, using a laptop filled with explosives, was carried out against Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha, head of the Anbar Awakening Council.
"I had two cameras set up that was to catch any fall I might have had on my first attempt using it," he said.
His first attempt, using interstate highways, was unsatisfactory; they bypassed too many small towns, and there were too many pictures of rock faces and concrete walls instead of vistas.
What we have seen is a well-planned and executed attempt, using people's quite justifiable anger over MPs' expenses to undermine the government in the lead-up to critical local and national elections.
It was written by EH Jones, and explains how his use of a Ouija board to entertain his friends became, with the assistance of Australian officer (and amateur magician) Cedric Hill, an escape attempt, using the cupidity of their captors.
In a desperate attempt to cover up the error, he claims, the perpetrators crept in overnight to fix it, but bungled their attempt, using the wrong adhesive and attaching it incorrectly.
