Likewise, the number of assassinations decreased from 225 to nine in the past two months.

Ambushes, targeted assassinations, sexual violence, looting, armed robbery and killings continue to be reported throughout the country.

The Security Council reiterates its deepest concern about the destabilizing impact of political assassinations and other terrorist acts in Lebanon.

Israel's policy of obstructing the delivery of international assistance and engaging in systematic assassinations and arrests of Palestinians had curbed development in general.

Many reminded the Mission of previous political assassinations either they had not been investigated properly or the investigations had not led to convincing results.

Those who maintain this theory reminded the Mission that political assassinations are carried out not in revenge, but in order to lead to certain consequences.

The Security Council also condemns all terrorist attacks in Iraq, including the attempted assassinations of diplomats from Bahrain and Pakistan and attacks against other civilian personnel.

NEW YORK History rarely unfolds smoothly or evenly. Instead, it tends to be punctuated by major developments battles, assassinations, breakthroughs that have consequences that are felt for years.

NEW YORK History rarely unfolds smoothly or evenly. Instead, it tends to be punctuated by major developments battles, assassinations, breakthroughs that have consequences that are felt for years.

during the Civil Rights movement, the assassinations, the Watergate hearings and then the feminist movement, and I think I was drawing, trying to figure out what was going on.

Many pointed to the fact that Lebanon had witnessed a great number of political assassinations over the previous 30 years and that most of them remained unsolved to date.

Likewise, we cannot ignore the arbitrary arrests, the targeted assassinations of Palestinian leaders and, of course, the building  notwithstanding the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice of the separation wall.

She criticized the wording of paragraph 36, which implied that targeted assassinations constituted extrajudicial or summary executions only when they were carried out in areas populated by civilians and resulted in deaths.

That process has been rendered completely inoperative by successive Israeli Governments, especially the present one, which rejects the framework for peace and pursues its policies of killing, assassinations, State sponsored terrorism and destruction.

Contrary to territorial withdrawal, cessation of violence can be achieved only bilaterally. Both sides should commit to an end to assassinations, shelling, bombings, and any other form of attacks on the other side s military targets and citizens.

The Committee remains much concerned about the actions and policies of the occupying Power, including the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force, the practice of collective punishment and extrajudicial assassinations and the imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians.

He expressed concern, in particular, about reports from B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, concerning the Israeli forces' no prisoner policies under which assassinations were carried out in the guise of arrest operations.

To be sure, the security forces have, so far, mostly held their ground, deterring assassinations and keeping Kabul largely secure. But they have also failed to make significant gains, and US plans to cut aid will make progress even more difficult.

Concerning the terminology used, he referred the two representatives to paragraph 35 of the report, on the targeted assassination in Yemen. The Special Rapporteur had never meant to suggest that targeted assassinations committed outside areas populated by civilians might be acceptable.

But the Israeli Government has met none of its commitments, least of all with regard to withdrawal to the lines of September 2000, the freeing of prisoners and ending illegal extrajudicial assassinations, the closures and the siege imposed on our people.

The FLN (National Liberation Front) uprising against French rule in Algeria started in 1954 with assassinations of policemen. The French at first responded with orthodox measures more police, curfews, martial law, etc. but the insurgency spread amid growing atrocities by both sides.

The multiplication of assassinations of political opponents and economic rivals, the mafia practice of contract murders, cannot be seen as signs of a regained stability. Nor can the Putin regime s manipulation of popular xenophobia against citizens of the former Soviet empire, such as Georgians.

Reaffirms its condemnation of the collective assassinations, revealed by the discovery of mass graves, committed by the previous regime in Iraq, against innocent Iraqi, Kuwaiti and other people, as a crime against humanity, and requests that those responsible for such crimes be put on trial.

Twenty two sworn statements brought to the attention of the Special Committee reported extrajudicial executions or targeted assassinations carried out between June 2004 and February 2005 by IDF or Israeli special squads against Palestinian civilians, mainly in the streets, driving their vehicles, or sometimes taken out of their homes.

On human rights in the context of the fight against terrorism, his delegation recalled the urgent appeals of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions concerning acts committed by States under the guise of the fight against terrorism, including collective punishments, bombings and targeted assassinations in areas populated by civilians.

To expand the mandate of the International Independent Investigation Commission formed according to Security Council resolution 1595 (2005), or create an independent international investigation commission, to investigate the assassination attempts and assassinations and explosions that took place in Lebanon starting with the attempt on the life of Minister Marwan Hamade on 1 October 2004.

It's the Minister of Defense with whom we're working, not the Minister of Education, because it is seen as a strategic defense issue in the sense of liberating these zones that had been completely closed off, in which the people who had been causing, if you will, 40 years' worth of bombings and kidnappings and assassinations lived.

The killing of Osama bin Laden last year required an actual hit squad to verify its success, but normally assassinations can be left to drones unmanned aircraft, mainly used for surveillance, but which can be armed with computer guided missiles. Not surprisingly, the US is the leading developer and user of drones, with a fleet of 7,500.

Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are highly disciplined organizations, exercising tight control over their political and military wings. Although Hamas has been weakened by Israel s targeted assassinations of Sheik Ahmad Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi, it retains strong military capabilities and popular support ranging between 25 30 , making it the second leading faction in the West Bank and Gaza.

The Special Rapporteur pointed out that he had deliberately decided not to deal with the other serious human rights violations loss of human lives, excessive force used indiscriminately against civilians and combatants, ever more assassinations of Palestinians, detention of more than 6,000 Palestinians and transfer of prisoners under administrative detention from the West Bank to Gaza.

A covert war between Israel and Iran has been going on for some time now. The assassinations allegedly by Israel of Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah s military chief and Iran s closest ally in the organization, two years ago, and more recently of Mahmoud al Mahbouh, Hamas s liaison officer with the Al Quds force of Iran s Revolutionary Guards, suggest that an unplanned chain of events could trigger a real war.

The President of the Republic has asked the Minister of Justice to carry out a census of the prison population in general in order to find out who would qualify for such release prisoners accused of armed banditry or in connection with the assassinations of President Ndadaye and Dr. Kassy Manlan, former representative of WHO in Burundi, would not be considered for release within this framework.

Since the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on 14 February, Lebanon has undergone a period of increased political instability, manifested by the large scale demonstrations in the capital, the resignation of the Government, several bomb attacks in various areas of Beirut, the assassinations of journalist Samir Kassir and politician George Hawi and, most recently, the attack on the envoy of Defence Minister Elias Murr.

When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) among Mexico, Canada, and the United States entered into force on January 1, 1994, it seemed that Mexico was poised for a true takeoff. But a series of events the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the assassinations of a presidential candidate and the incoming president s chief aide, and the collapse of the currency shook Mexico that year, underscoring the depth of the challenges it faced.

But if we have learned anything at all from the tragic assassinations of the region s greatest peacemakers, Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, it is that the guns do not remain silent for long. During any lull, a fanatic from either side could jump to center stage and, through an act of utter madness, kick up the settling dust and dash the hopes of the many on both sides who still long for a lasting peace.

KABUL Suicide bombings, assassinations of top Afghan leaders, brutal attacks on Charikar and other places close to Kabul, Afghanistan s capital, and a rapid increase in civilian deaths from drone attacks are jeopardizing the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from the country. So pervasive has the violence become that Ahmed Rashid, the renowned expert on the Taliban, has concluded that speeding up the peace process through dialogue with the insurgents is the only option.