Showing posts with label Political Assassinations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political Assassinations. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Suicide mars Sarkozy trip to Israel

"French President Nicolas Sarkozy, bottom right, follows wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, top ,as she runs onto an airplane during a departure ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, June 24, 2008. An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself in the head on Tuesday at an airport departure ceremony for French President Nicholas Sarkozy, authorities said, sparking fear of an assassination attempt and prompting bodyguards to whisk Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert away from the scene.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)"

Now, if any of you buy the propaganda that this was somehow an accident and NOT an assassination attempt on Sarkozy, I've a bridge in Brooklyn and a big clock in London I want to sell you!

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Assassinations Plague S. Asian Politics


"The killing of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto marks yet another chapter in the dark history of political assassinations in South Asia and shows violence has become entrenched in the region's political culture."