Top 10 Assassination Plots
Dubai officials issued arrest warrants for 11 suspects alleged to be behind the Jan. 20 murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top official in the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The movements of the accused were caught on surveillance tape, which caused a sensation after it was released. TIME looks back at past assassination plots that have gripped the world.
Longtime dictator Fidel Castro — who until recently had led Cuba for nearly half a century — was the subject of multiple assassination attempts, many of them in the 1960s. At the height of the Cold War, the CIA came up with a variety of creative, if not necessarily successful, schemes to assassinate or at least discredit the leader. The agency thought of everything from contaminated cigars to exploding seashells to mobster-administered poison pills to chemicals on Castro's shoes that would cause his forceful beard to fall out to ...
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