assassination
Posted Oct 12, 2011, 12:44 pm
Sebastian Rotella
/ProPublica
The alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican cartel gunmen to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington is one of the strangest, most serious terrorism cases to surface in years, a mix of seemingly credible evidence and unlikely scenarios that departs dramatically from Iran’s past record of global terrorist activity.... Read more»
Posted Sep 14, 2011, 8:30 am
Global Post
ABC News has broadcast newly released audio tapes of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, made just months after the assassination of her husband in 1963.... Read more»
Posted Jul 13, 2011, 10:01 am
Jean MacKenzie
/GlobalPost
There is much that is unclear about the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai. But there is one thing that is virtually certain: it will make the situation worse.The power vacuum it creates could quite possibly be filled by someone even worse.... Read more»
Posted May 31, 2011, 8:40 am
Global Post
Russian police on Tuesday arrested Rustam Makhmudov, the man suspected of killing investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006.... Read more»
Posted Feb 17, 2011, 8:31 am
Matt Beynon Rees
/GlobalPost
Israeli law enforcement officials, concerned about virulent divisions between left- and right-wing groups in the country, have warned that a political assassination could be imminent.... Read more»
Posted Sep 28, 2010, 7:04 am
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
“What do you want from us?” It’s an odd question for a newspaper to ask of the people it covers. But when those people have an arsenal rivaling an army — and no reservations about murdering journalists to keep them from doing their jobs — a paper’s role leading the public conversation takes on a different and deadly dynamic.... Read more»
Posted Jul 21, 2010, 12:59 pm
Iason Athanasiadis
/GlobalPost
Fears are growing that Greece is on a path of destabilization after an investigative journalist was gunned down Monday in the latest of a series of high profile terror strikes.... Read more»
Posted Jul 13, 2010, 9:01 am
Ioan Grillo
/GlobalPost
How cartels have turned the city’s youth into hit men and cannon fodder in the drug war.... Read more»
Posted Feb 26, 2010, 10:30 am
Tom Hundley
/GlobalPost
On Jan. 20, senior Hamas operative Mahmoud Al Mabhouh was found dead in a Dubai hotel room. The world would not learn of his demise until nine days later. Israel’s Mossad remains the prime suspect in what can only be described as a highly choreographed professional killing.... Read more»