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Eine kurze Liste von Mordanschlägen durch US-Geheimdienste

  • 1949 – Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader

  • 1950s – CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be “put out of the way” in the event of a Soviet invasion

  • 1950s – Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life

  • 1950s, 1962 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia

  • 1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea

  • 1953 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran

  • 1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader

  • 1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India

  • 1957 – Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt

  • 1959, 1963, 1969 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia

  • 1960 – Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq

  • 1950s-70s – José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life

  • 1961 – Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti

  • 1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)

  • 1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic

  • 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam

  • 1960s-70s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life

  • 1960s – Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba

  • 1965 – Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader

  • 1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France

  • 1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader

  • 1970 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile

  • 1970 – Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile

  • 1970s, 1981 – General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama

  • 1972 – General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence

  • 1975 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire

  • 1976 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica

  • 1980-1986 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life

  • 1982 – Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran

  • 1983 – Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander

  • 1983 – Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua

  • 1984 – The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate

  • 1985 – Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)

  • 1991 – Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq

  • 1993 – Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia

  • 1998, 2001-2 – Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant

  • 1999 – Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia

  • 2002 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord

  • 2003 – Saddam Hussein and his two sons

  • 2011 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya

(via 21st Century Wire)