Sentence examples for suspected assassination from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Sana/handout/EPA Updated at 11.44am BST 9.10am BST Damascus There are reports that the prime minister's bodyguard was killed and his driver was injured in the suspected assassination attempt in Mezzeh district, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

He had survived a suspected assassination attempt only last month, when a truck swerved in front of the convoy of cars in which he was travelling.

Mr. Clapper said that the suspected assassination plot "shows that some Iranian officials — probably including supreme leader Ali Khamenei — have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S. actions that threaten the regime".

WASHINGTON — Some senior Iranian leaders are now more willing to carry out attacks inside the United States in response to perceived American threats against their country, the Obama administration's top intelligence official said on Tuesday, pointing to last fall's suspected assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington.

Mazzetti describes how the imperative to protect American troops in Afghanistan from cross-border attacks originating in Pakistan led to a slackening of the standards used to mark terror suspects for assassination.

The Taliban were suspected in the assassination.

They cited his admission in a March 1 hearing that he had ordered the trial of 148 Shiites who were eventually executed, insisting that doing so was legal because they were suspected in the assassination attempt against him.

A retired army sergeant, suspected in the assassination last month of a judge who sentenced the fugitive son of former President Suharto to prison, died in police custody of what authorities called a heart attack.

A11 Serbian Police Arrest Suspects A day after the assassination of the Serbian prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, the government declared a state of emergency, and the police said they had arrested 56 people, including 8 members of the underworld gang suspected in the assassination.

That year, a popular movement triggered by the suspected Syrian-sponsored assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri forced Syria to withdraw its forces from Lebanon, ending 30 years of occupation.

Lyndon Johnson suspected that the assassination resulted from the struggle for power in Cuba.