By then some two dozen people had already been killed, some in deliberate assassinations, and hundreds injured in clashes between the BNP and supporters of the Awami League, the main opposition.
He conveyed to the fighting families letters of condolences from the President [Abbas] and updated them as to [Abbas's] decision to declare them as Shahids [Martyrs] of the Palestinian revolution... .. Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim: "Without doubt, what the [Israeli] occupation authorities have carried out is a wild and barbaric act and a deliberate, malicious assassination in cold blood".
(The statistics do not distinguish between the kinds of killings, between deliberate military assassinations of presumed bomb-makers and the shootings of unarmed civilians).
His own as yet vague intuitions, combined with this one unsourced report in a mischievous magazine, seemed already to have planted in his superior's mind the certainty of a deliberate, cold-blooded assassination campaign.
The Hebron governor said: "We condemn this crime, this assassination, as deliberate and premeditated murder".
The commission said it believed the failure of the police to investigate Bhutto's assassination effectively was deliberate.
Parkland is a deliberate attempt to distance the assassination from the looking-glass mythologies of conspiracy buffs; instead, the drama of the casualty room revisits the tragedy on a human scale.
The Obama administration's efforts to negotiate an end to the war, initially brokered by Germany's spy service, showed promise but have been scuttled more than once by rumors, deliberate leaks in Kabul, Islamabad and Washington and the assassination of the top Afghan negotiator in September by a supposed envoy wearing a bomb in his turban, Afghan and Western officials said.
What has motivated these deliberate and retaliatory attempts at character assassination?
The (UN Commissionn believes that the failures of the police and other officials to react effectively to Ms Bhutto's assassination were, in most cases, deliberate.
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.
