"Podem ainda não estar a ver as coisas à superficie, mas por baixo já está tudo a arder" - Y. B. Mangunwijaya, escritor indonésio, 16 de Julho de 1998.
«As the founder of al-Qaeda, a jihadist group which took responsibility for the attacks of September 11, 2001, along with other civilian attacks around the world, Osama bin Laden had been on the FBI's 'Ten Most Wanted Fugitives' and 'Most Wanted Terrorists' list since the 1998 US embassy bombings. With a $25 million bounty on his head, bin Laden went into hiding for nearly a decade before a US Navy SEALs team raided his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and killed him in what was known as Operation Neptune Spear.
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Location: Hideout Compound — Abbottabad, PK Date: May 2, 2011 Weapon: Heckler & Koch 416 Carbines Assassin: SEAL Team Six»
«On their way out for a recording session, John Lennon and Yoko Ono signed several autographs, including a copy of 'Double Fantasy' for Mark David Chapman, which he handed Lennon silently. Upon their return several hours later, Chapman shot Lennon four times (represented here by the four broken guitar strings), and waited silently on the sidewalk for police to arrive.
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Location: The Dakota — Manhattan, NY Date: December 8, 1980 Weapon: Charter Arms .38 Special Revolver Assassin: Mark David Chapman»
«Ten months after being sworn in as the first openly gay man to serve as a public official in the state of California, Harvey Milk, along with Mayor Moscone, was shot and killed in his office by Dan White, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at the time. White avoided being convicted of murder with what is now known as the "Twinkie Defense". After being released from prison less than two years later, White killed himself, and was often referred to as "perhaps the most hated man in San Francisco's history."
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Location: City Hall — San Francisco, CA Date: November 27, 1978 Weapon: Standard Issue Service Revolver Assassin: Dan White»
«After winning the California primary election in an attempt to become the next President of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy, was shot three times in the Ambassador Hotel. Sirhan Sirhan, a devout anti-Zionist Palestinian was responsible for killing Kennedy. In a diary found in Sirhan's home, he had written "My determination to eliminate RFK is becoming more and more of an unshakable obsession. RFK must die. RFK must be killed. Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated…"
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Location: Ambassador Hotel — Los Angeles, CA Date: June 5, 1968 Weapon: .22 Caliber Iver-Johnson Assassin: Sirhan Sirhan»
«On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what is now considered to be one of the most famous speeches in American history. "I Have A Dream" was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of over 200,000 supporters. All the while King was staring out across the reflecting pool at the Washington Monument, which looks an awful lot like a Ku Klux Klan member. On April 4, 1968, King was assassinated as he stood outside his hotel home inMemphis,Tennessee.
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Location: Lorraine Motel — Memphis, TN Date: April 4, 1968 Weapon: Remington 760 Gamemaster Assassin: James Earl Ray»
«After leaving the Nation of Islam, countless threats against the life of Malcolm X were made both publicly and anonymously by its members. In late February while speaking at a meeting of the Organization of Afro-Americans Unity, a man by the name of Talmadge Hayer rushed the stage, and shot the prolific civil rights leader in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Immediately after, two other men with handguns shot him sixteen times.
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Location: Audubon Ballroom — Manhattan, NY Date: February 21, 1965 Weapon: Sawed-Off Shotgun Assassin: Talmadge Hayer»
«The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald carries weight well beyond a patriotic American avenging the death of his President. Jack Ruby, strongly believed to have ties to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, impersonated a newspaper reporter to gain access to the Dallas Police Headquarters where he shot Lee Harvey Oswald at point blank range saying later that he had no reason for doing so. Ruby was taking Phenmetrazine at the time, a stimulant that has since been banned.
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Location: DallasPolice HQ — Dallas, TX Date: November 24, 1963 Weapon: .38 Colt Cobra Assassin: Jack Ruby»
«The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is perhaps the most contested death in the history of our nation. Shrouded in controversy, spun in a web of complex conspiracy theories, the details of the event are still in question today. On a sunny November day, the President was shot fatally in the head while riding in his motorcade. The suspected killer Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated two days later by Jack Ruby who was believed to have had ties to the death of JFK, leaving the door to this event wide open.
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Location: Dealey Plaza — Dallas, TX Date: November 22, 1963 Weapon: 6.5mm Carcano Sniper Rifle Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald»
«Hard to believe someone as caring and selfless as Mohandas Gandhi would have survived five assassination attempts before finally being gunned down at point-blank range on his way to a prayer meeting. And while Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi with a semi-automatic pistol, it's difficult to ignore the visual similarities between the Lotus flower and a revolver.
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Location: Birla House — New Delhi, India Date: January 30, 1948 Weapon: .38 Beretta Semi-Automatic Pistol Assassin: Nathuram Godse»
«As Franz Ferdinand made his way to a town hall meeting, two would-be assassins failed to act, but a third by the name of Nedeljko Čabrinović threw a bomb toward Ferdinand's vehicle, which bounced off the convertible cover and back into the street. Upon this failure, Čabrinović swallowed a cyanide pill and jumped into a nearby river. After the meeting, Ferdinand and his wife Sophie left to visit those injured by the earlier bombing, but their new vehicle stalled shortly after. At this point, an assassin by the name of Gavrilo Princip ran up to the car and shot Ferdinand twice in the chest. When asked about his condition after being shot, Ferdinand said "It is nothing."
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Location: Latin Bridge — Sarajevo, Bosnia Date: June 28, 1914 Weapon: .380 Fabrique Nationale Model 1910 Assassin: Gavrilo Princip»
«John Wilkes Booth caught his spur on a flag as he jumped from the balcony where he shot Lincoln, resulting in a broken leg upon landing. There were eight conspirators in total, thus the eight stars. Booth was the only one who acted in the actual assassination.
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Location: Ford's Theatre — Washington, D.C. Date: April 14, 1865 Weapon: Philadelphia Deringer Pistol Assassin: John Wilkes Booth»
«A group of Roman Senators calling themselves The Liberators conspired to assassinate Julius Caesar. Having learned of this plot, Marc Antony attempted to warn Caesar, but was stalled by a group of Senators. As Caesar passed the Theatre of Pompey, the Liberators directed him into a room where they swarmed and stabbed him a total of twenty-three times, only one of which proved to be fatal.
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Location: Theatre of Pompey — Rome, Italy Date: March 15, 44 BC Weapon: Countless Daggers Assassin: The Roman Senate»
