[Johnj]

1967 - Che Guevara, Cuban leader. Testimony by various individuals who were participants in, or witnesses to, events during his final hours indicates that the Bolivian government summarily executed him in order to avoid a public trial and the complications that might arise if he were incarcerated on Bolivian soil.

1970 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile died of a gunshot wound, under circumstances that remain a matter of dispute, during the violent Chilean coup of 1973.

1970 - Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a kidnapping attempt. His murder virtually assured Salvador Allende's election by the Chilean Congress two days later.

1970s, 1981 - General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama. Torrijos' death generated charges and speculation that he was the victim of an assassination plot. For instance, in pre-trial hearings in Miami May, 1991 Noriega's attorney Frank Rubino was quoted as saying "General Noriega has in his possession documents showing attempts to assassinate General Noriega and Mr. Torrijos by agencies of the United States". Those documents were not allowed as evidence in trial, because the presiding judge agreed with the government's claim that their public mention would violate the Classified Information Procedures Act. More recently, former businessman John Perkins [1], alleges in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, that Torrijos was assassinated by American interests, who had a bomb planted aboard his aircraft. The alleged motive is that some American business leaders and politicians strongly opposed the negotiations between Torrijos and a group of Japanese businessmen led by Shigeo Nagano, who were promoting the idea of a new, larger, sea-level canal for Panama. Manuel Noriega, in America's Prisoner, confirms that these negotiations had evoked an extremely unfavorable response from American circles.

1972 - General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence. By the late 1980s his actions started to defy the policies of the United States agencies that helped to put him in power, and he was overthrown and captured by a U.S. invading force, Operation Just Cause, in 1989. He was taken to the United States, tried for drug trafficking, and imprisoned in 1992. He remains imprisoned in a federal prison in Miami, Florida where his daughters and his grandchildren frequently visit. On December 4, 2004, he was moved to an undisclosed Miami hospital after suffering a very minor stroke.

1975 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire. Mobutu died in September 1997 in exile in Rabat, Morocco, from prostate cancer which had been developing since 1962.

1976 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica. Michael Manley died on March 6, 1997, the same day as another Caribbean politician, Cheddi Jagan of Guyana.

1980-1986 - Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life. Still living though. Look [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Qaddafi:0abb9]here[/url:0abb9] to learn more about this guy.

1982 - Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran. After eleven days in a hospital for an operation to stop internal bleeding, Khomeini died on Saturday, June 3, 1989

1983 - Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander. January 25 General Ahmed Dlimi, commander of Moroccan forces in the Sahara, dies in a mysterious car-accident after numerous rumors circulate of a coup attempt.

1983 - Miguel d'Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua. (born 5 February 1933) was the foreign minister of Nicaragua when the country was ruled by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (1979-1990). This is all I could find on this guy.

1984 - The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate, Huh?

1985 - Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt). He was the target of several assassination attempts, a car bombing in 1985 that killed 80 people and is alleged to have been organized by the CIA.

1991 - Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq. currently on trial

1993 - Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia. Aidid died on August 1, 1996 possibly as a result of gunshot wounds sustained a week earlier in a fight with competing factions.

1998, 2001-2 - Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant. You have to be kidding.

1999 - Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia. Isn't this guy still on trial.

2002 - Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord. The United States accuses him of urging the Taliban to re-form and to fight the United States. He is also accused of offering rewards for those who kill U.S. troops. He has been labeled a war criminal by members of the U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai's government. He is also a suspect behind the September 5, 2002 assassination attempt on Karzai that killed more than a dozen people.

2003 - Saddam Hussein and his two sons. Saddam is still on trial and his boys were killed in battle


Like the first part most were killed by their own, are still alive, died of old age, or were killed in battle.
Im suprised that Ninty even posted this list without researching it first. That is something I'd expect out of Short Hand. Ohh well.

[ninty]

The site says:

"Following is a list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War."

OBL and Hussein etc are on there because the US had been planning their assissanation. I believe this list was also compiled by the original author before 9/11 because I found two versions. One only went up to 91, and the other had the others. So the list was probably added to. This would also explain the occurances of OBL and Hussein among other on being on the list.

In any case, the list might not be totally accurate, however it still serves the point that assissanation attempts have been carried out by the states without any consequences that I can see. So what's the difference between a Syrian assissanation, and a US assissanation? This is what I was trying to point out.

[Johnj]

What I am pointing out is most of these were not American plots at all, I only found about three that fit that bill. This is a list of all political assassinations over the last 50 years and the author is blaming them all on the US. If true it shows that the US couldn't pull off an assassination to save our asses. Do you really think that if the United States government wanted Castro dead, that we would continue to send assassination teams in that can't get the job done?