Moreover, Moïsi asked leading questions about the fall of empires, wondering if 9/11 was a historical disaster on the order of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914.
In April the army demanded that Geo be closed down after it accused the chief of its intelligence wing of ordering the assassination of one of the station's journalists.
Yet he called for the "immediate release" of "pillars" of the prisoner population like Mr. Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat, a leader of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who was convicted of ordering the assassination of an Israeli cabinet minister in 2001.
Originally sentenced to 30 years, Velásquez was eligible for early release in return for studying while in prison and testifying against the former justice minister Alberto Santofimio, who was convicted of ordering the assassination of his rival Galán at a campaign rally in a suburb of Bogotá.
"An elected official used the power of his position to order the assassination of another elected official".
At the time, President Leonid Kuchma was being accused of ordering the assassination of a journalist named Georgy Gongadze.
He sought to be named the head of the World Trade Organization, but withdrew after his brother was arrested on charges of ordering the assassination of a Mexican politician.
Milorad Lukovic, who is believed to lead the Zemun crime clan and is suspected of ordering the assassination of Mr. Djindjic, is on the run.
Litvinenko, a former K.G.B. agent, had accused Putin of ordering the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, a crusading Russian journalist who was murdered, in 2006.
In 1996, Mr. Riina was convicted of conspiring in the murder of Mr. Borsellino and five bodyguards, and the next year he was convicted of ordering the assassination of Mr. Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards.
A former sheriff in suburban Atlanta accused of ordering the assassination of his successor went on trial today on murder charges for what prosecutors called a power-mad effort to regain his job.
