Munich 1934: The Night of The Long Knives
London, 1974
New York, 1980
Ireland, 1979
Russia, 1940
Rome, 1981
Gibraltar, 1943
Buffalo, New York, 1901
On the morning of 10th June 1942, whilst driving his open-top Mercedes to his office, Hitler"s effective deputy and architect of the Final Solution was blown to pieces by a bomb thrown by two Czechoslovakian agents parachuted in by the British Royal Air Force. Hitler exacted a terrible revenge on the village of Lidice.
On 4th November 1995, as he was about to address a mass rally of his supporters celebrating the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord, one of Israel''s greatest Prime Ministers was gunned down by a young Israeli opposed to his concept of ''Land for Peace''. The trial revealed shortcomings in the Israeli President''s security arrangements.
On August 17 1988, en route for a military base in Northern Pakistan, Pakistan's pro-military strongman was brought down by a bomb in his Hercules transport plane, possibly in retaliation for helping the rebels fight the Russians in Afghanistan. Was a Russian agent in the aircraft minutes before he took off?
Cape Town, 1966
India, 1984 & 1989
Bolivia, 1967
Cairo, 1981
Washington, 1981
Eire, 1922
France, 1961: The Day of the Jackal
Rastenburg, 1944
Los Angeles, 1968
New Delhi, 1948
Memphis, 1968
Yekaterinburg, 1918
Marseille, 1934
Sarajevo, 1914
Dallas, 1963