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Will it survive the current maelstrom of challenges – exemplified by the recent
assassination
of Governor Salmaan Taseer of Punjab by one of his bodyguards, an Islamic zealot – or will it capsize?
Which brings us back to the horror of Taseer’s
assassination
and the strange and divided reaction to it in Pakistani civil society.
Taseer’s assassination, unlike that of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards in 1984, was not a retaliatory revenge attack.
Instead, the roots of Taseer’s
assassination
lay in the dark delusions of fanatical belief, his killing supposedly undertaken to protect the faith.
Such might have been the case, four years earlier, following the
assassination
of John F. Kennedy, had Kennedy not died from his wounds.
The
assassination
of the President of Iraq's Governing Council makes it crystal clear that the US is failing to create the minimal law-and-order needed for any sort of orderly transfer of power to take place by June 30th.
The story gets more complicated when one considers the UN inquiry into the
assassination
of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
But everything changed on September 6, when Bolsonaro was the victim of a failed
assassination
attempt that forced him to suspend his campaign for several weeks.
Barely a week after prosecutors accused Tymoshenko – based, yet again, on mere hearsay – of organizing the 1996
assassination
of a member of parliament, Yanukovych proclaimed: “Our goal is to ensure real economic and political independence, strengthen democracy and the rule of law, and establish Ukraine as [a] young, powerful, and modern state.”
Among the document’s proposals is an end to the emergency rule imposed since President Anwar Sadat’s
assassination
in 1981.
Hamas’s Real EnemiesJERUSALEM – In Iran, elements from within the regime are reportedly offering a $1 million reward for the
assassination
of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak because of his opposition to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Tymoshenko, who has survived three
assassination
attempts, is not the type of woman to surrender her campaign on a technicality.
The biggest hit that the NTC’s provisional government has taken since its establishment was the
assassination
of the rebel military commander Major General Abdul Fatah Younis.
Al-Issawi’s removal may have been tied to reports that he issued the instructions for the arrest of Younis shortly before the
assassination.
With the
assassination
of King Faisal in 1975 by his nephew, the Sudeiri branch of the family became its dominant faction.
In this context, the world’s growing angst – intensified by the memory of Archduke Ferdinand’s
assassination
– is entirely appropriate.
This, too, is grimly familiar to Russians: Stalin also had special
assassination
teams, one of which carried out the murder in Mexico of his archenemy, Leon Trotsky.
After the
assassination
of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005 led the international community to finger Syria as the culprit, Assad stonewalled a United Nations tribunal investigating the matter and silenced domestic critics by once again conjuring foreign bogeymen scheming to weaken the country.
Indeed, America’s gun culture is a threat to freedom, after the murder of a president, senator, and other public leaders, and countless
assassination
attempts against public officials over recent decades.
The same applies to the Islamic Group, a movement implicated in violent acts in almost a dozen countries throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, including armed insurgency in Egypt, bombings in the United States and Croatia,
assassination
attempts in Ethiopia, and training camps in Afghanistan.
But the pattern of
assassination
directed against Russian “troublemakers,” which started several years ago when human rights expert Nikolai Girenko and journalist Anna Politkovskaya were murdered, has not been effectively addressed.
His
assassination
upon his arrival at Manila airport became the ultimate proof of the sincerity of what he had proclaimed throughout his life.
The attempted
assassination
in Jeddah last month of Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, the deputy interior minister for security affairs, demonstrates both elements of the Saudi strategy, and how a bold attempt by Al-Qaeda to revive its fortunes has failed.
For now, however, the Saudi royals have a prince who is seen as a courageous hero for having survived an
assassination
attempt while offering the hand of generosity to an unrepentant zealot.
In September 2017, for example, Tundu Lissu, an outspoken government critic, was shot during a failed
assassination
attempt.
Zardari has held power since 2008, having been elected eight months after the
assassination
of his wife, Benazir Bhutto.
Nor are the talks a Syrian ploy to avoid facing an international tribunal on the
assassination
of Lebanon’s former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the
assassination
of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the last man to have embodied a real hope for peace, is a third intifada erupting?
In two years, Europeans will commemorate the centennial of the
assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, and the subsequent “July crisis” that triggered World War I that August.
Death could come by assassination, with Trump tearing up the agreement.
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