In 1999, Huji members attempted to assassinate the moderate poet Shamshur Rahman with an axe.

In a reminder of that confrontation, Ortega accused his old enemies in the United States of drafting a plan to assassinate him.

On 14 January 1858, an Italian refugee from Britain called Orsini attempted to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb made in England.

At the beginning of 1901, in Behima, she was attacked by a man with a sabre, in an apparent attempt to assassinate her.

The regime even dispatched two spies to Seoul to assassinate Hwang Jang yop, the highest level North Korean official ever to defect to South Korea.

Three years later, Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg was executed as one of the conspirators in the July 20, 1944 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

In late October 2005, the Commission was approached by another new witness, who has submitted a comprehensive and coherent statement regarding plans to assassinate Mr. Hariri.

So is his international stature and popularity, especially after a Spanish judge accused him of conspiring to assassinate former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana in Madrid back in 2002.

In June 1995, an even more ill fated attempt to assassinate Egyptian president Mubarak led to the expulsion of EIJ, and in May 1996, of bin Laden, by the Sudanese government.

However, a few days later, the defense minister, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, a fierce critic of Hichilema, disclosed that two retired generals had been paid by an unnamed person to assassinate President Sata.

In November 2011, Mwamba announced to the nation that a group of retired generals were planning to assassinate President Sata and other leaders in response to the government s tough stance on corruption.

The German government was eager to assassinate Churchill on his return flight home, and monitored flights in and out of the region in case the Prime Minister tried to sneak home aboard a civilian airliner.

On April 22, 2004, a train explosion at Ryongchon killed 160 people and injured 1,300. Many believe that it was an attempt to assassinate Kim, whose custom built train passed through Ryongchon a few hours before the blast.

Thus spoke Saif al Islam al Qaddafi in March 2010, referring to the leaders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an armed organization that had attempted to assassinate his father, Muammar al Qaddafi, three times in the mid 1990 s.

Nor does Morales s rhetoric help accusing the United States of attempting to assassinate him, as he did last week, does not endear him to the elites of a country that has signed a free trade agreement with the US and whose president will be visiting Washington soon.

The attack would involve a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II, an air bombing of 11 airliners flying from Asia to the United States with their approximately 4,000 passengers, and a proposal to crash a plane into the headquarters of the CIA in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Whispered reports are even more lurid. Zhou is said to have plotted to murder his first wife, and there are rumors that at the height of last year s scandal involving disgraced former Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai, he attempted to assassinate Xi in the leadership compound at Zhongnanhai.

There is probable cause to believe that the decision to assassinate former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri could not have been taken without the approval of top ranked Syrian security officials and could not have been further organized without the collusion of their counterparts in the Lebanese security services. (Ibid., para.