My father was assassinated.

On 14 February, he was assassinated.

But of course, Lincoln was assassinated by a conspiracy.

Was JFK assassinated by a conspiracy or by a lone assassin?

Some of you may not have heard that Dr. King has been assassinated.

The independent expert learned that a high ranking police commander was recently assassinated in Mogadishu.

When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, that day, everybody in my community was upset.

The American people strongly and rightly supported Kennedy over the warmongers. But three months after the treaty was signed, JFK was assassinated.

One month ago, my dear colleague Lakshman Kadirgamar, the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, was assassinated by a calculated and barbaric act of terrorism.

We also wish to pay tribute to the memory of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, His Excellency Mr. Rafik Hariri, who was tragically assassinated yesterday.

He always expressed his faith in the role of Syria and his appreciation for its assistance, even doing so just a few minutes before he was assassinated.

That fact was personally reaffirmed by the Prime Minister in an interview with the Lebanese newspaper As Safir on 14 February 2005, minutes before he was assassinated.

NEW YORK Fifty years ago this month, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Many Americans believe that this tragic event marked the loss of national innocence.

Both her mother and her father, President Park Chung hee, were assassinated, in 1974 and 1979, respectively. Indeed, her father was murdered by his own intelligence chief, KCIA Director Kim Jaegyu.

Lebanon was perhaps the first Arab country to experience crowd politics. After Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was assassinated in February 2005, crowds led by various political parties filled Martyrs Square in downtown Beirut.

He soon sponsored the unveiling of a bust of the assassinated Israeli premier Yitzak Rabin at Brasov in Transylvania. For the occasion, Tudor wore a yarmulke and spoke about his philo Semitism for more than two hours .

Mr. Assaf (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic) In Lebanon today, we seem to be in a constant state of sorrow we have lost the former Prime Minister of our country, Mr. Rafik Hariri, who was tragically assassinated yesterday.

Likewise, in 1982, during the invasion of Lebanon, Israeli troops were about to enter Muslim West Beirut after Syrian agents assassinated the pro Israeli Lebanese President elect Bashir Gemayel. This would probably have brought Syria into the war.

Enver Ziganshin, the chief engineer of BP Russia, was shot to death in Irkutsk on September 30. Andrei Kozlov, the deputy governor of Russia s central bank who was leading a campaign against financial fraud, was assassinated on September 14.

Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, but the subsequent diplomatic discussions dragged out for weeks. Germany s top officials ostensibly went on vacation in order to create the impression that the tensions could easily be resolved.

Similarly Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh s prime minister, who carries the mantle of her assassinated father, has become a keen advocate of development issues, with a special emphasis on women and their needs. That agenda, missing in her first term, has dominated her current period in office.

On 1 June, at the memorial service for a cleric who had been assassinated a few days earlier, a suicide bomber detonated a massive charge in a mosque in Kandahar province, killing more than 40 people, including the chief of police of Kabul province.

He soon sponsored the unveiling of a bust of the assassinated Israeli premier Yitzak Rabin at Brasov in Transylvania. For the occasion, Tudor wore a yarmulke and spoke about his philo Semitism for more than two hours . Other PRM representatives, provided with yarmulkes by Tudor, shuffled their feet awkwardly.

Finally, it must begin a dialogue with Musharraf and the military on a permanent, constitutional separation of powers. If Bhutto had not been assassinated and, instead, successfully became prime minister, she would likely have clashed with Musharraf over his arbitrary empowerment of the presidency at the expense of the premiership.

We saw this a few weeks ago, when former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. Democratic and Republican candidates alike were called upon to explain what they would be prepared to do if there were an opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden or a need to secure Pakistan s nuclear weapons.

Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right wingers, the iron fisted Park Chung hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief. His daughter is proud of his legacy, which marked the beginning of South Korea s economic boom.

Syrian supporters maintain that he was assassinated by the enemies of Syria those who wanted to create international pressure on the Syrian leadership in order to accelerate the demise of its influence in Lebanon and or start a chain of reactions that would eventually force a regime change inside the Syrian Arab Republic itself.

Of course, the divergences between Japanese and South Korean historical narratives go back further than WWII. More than a century ago, the Korean activist Ahn Jung geun assassinated Japan s first prime minister, Hirobumi Ito, at the railway station in the Chinese city of Harbin, cementing Ahn s status as a hero in Korea and a terrorist in Japan.

Syrian supporters counter by claiming that Mr. Hariri was assassinated by the enemies of Syria those who wanted to exert international pressure on the Syrian leadership in order to accelerate the demise of Syrian influence in Lebanon and or start a chain of reactions that would eventually force a regime change inside the Syrian Arab Republic itself.

That began to change in 2001, when Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, the widow of the assassinated military strongman General Zia, replaced secularism in the Constitution with the Sovereignty of Allah. Encouraged by this change the BNP s junior coalition partner, Jamaat e Islami, which has links with the militias and remains close to Pakistan, has been calling for imposition of Sharia (Islamic law).

As Iraq moved to complete the Osirak reactor by the early 1980 s, Israel applied diplomatic pressure and actions against foreign nuclear vendors, sabotaged atomic exports, and assassinated Iraqi scientists, before finally settling on the June 1981 air strike on the plant. In the Syrian case, with one caveat, Israel decided to dispense with the preliminaries and simply destroy the reactor.

MEXICO CITY The last time Mexico experienced a political crisis more serious than the one it is undergoing today was in 1994, when a group of so called Zapatista guerrillas staged a semi armed uprising in the southern state of Chiapas. The president s handpicked successor was assassinated, and, as if that was not enough, the value of the peso had plummeted by nearly 70 .

Was it not incitement when, just days before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995 for his efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians, Netanyahu addressed a rally where posters depicted Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform? Was it not incitement when he attempted to mobilize Jewish voters earlier this year by warning of Arabs voting in droves, bussed in by the left.

As such, he might be compared to Pyotr Stolypin, another conservative prime minister who famously asked for 20 years of peace and quiet mostly from liberals and revolutionaries to transform Russia. Stolypin never got the chance a revolutionary assassinated him in 1911 and neither did Russia, which stumbled into World War I, leading directly to the collapse of the monarchy and the Bolshevik revolution.

Sometimes this involves overt conflict between moderates and radicals within one side, such as when an Israeli religious zealot assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin when peace negotiations were making progress. Sometimes this involves a terrorist attack by radical Palestinians against Israeli civilians, in the hope of provoking an exaggerated violent response from Israel that breaks the process of trust building among moderates on both sides.

Iranian intelligence has assassinated more than 400 Iranian dissidents outside of Iran, including the last prime minister under the Shah, Shapour Bakhtiar, and four Kurds in Berlin s Mikonos restaurant in 1992 (a German judge later officially named Iran s Supreme Leader as one of the senior officials involved in the terrorist attack). Similarly, the Quds Force of Iran s Revolutionary Guard has carried out hundreds of operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and elsewhere.