The president-elect then evaded possible assassins in Baltimore, who were uncovered by Lincoln's head of security, Allan Pinkerton.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

Notable examples of bodyguards include the Roman Praetorian Guard or the Ottoman Janissaries — though, in both cases, the protectors sometimes became assassins themselves, exploiting their power to make the head of state a virtual hostage or killing the very leaders they were supposed to protect.

The six assassins caught by Austria-Hungary were tried and convicted for treason.

The leader, Danilo Ilić, was shot by a firing squad. The remaining assassins in custody were not yet twenty years old at the time of the assassination and so were given prison terms.

The Nazi assassins in Vienna, after declaring the formation of a new government under Austrian Nazi Anton Rintelen, previously exiled by Dollfuss as Austrian Ambassador to Rome, surrendered after threats from Austrian military of blowing up the Chancellery using dynamite, and were subsequently tried and executed through hanging.

When they knew that Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius were assembling an army in order to march on Rome, Antony, Octavian and Lepidus allied in November 43 BC, forming the Second Triumvirate to stop Caesar's assassins.

The Dragons later resolved their rivalry against Luke Cage's gang, but were eventually captured in a trap created by both the Kingpin's assassins and Thunderbird's agents.

The three surviving assassins were captured, but later released by West Germany following the hijacking by Black September of a Lufthansa airliner.

The bodies of the five Palestinian assassins — Afif, Nazzal, Chic Thaa, Hamid and Jawad — killed during the Fürstenfeldbruck gun battle were delivered to Libya, where they received heroes ' funerals and were buried with full military honors.

Supporters of the assassins who were killed in the wake of these events included the church's leader, Bishop Gorazd, who is now revered as a martyr of the Orthodox Church.

The assassins of Zimmermann, von Braunmühl, Herrhausen and Rohwedder were never reliably identified.

Although his assassins were not identified at the time, evidence implicated President Somoza's son and other members of the National Guard.

In early 2001, Al-Qaeda would-be assassins were captured by Massoud's forces while trying to enter his territory.

Minos asked Aegeus for his son's assassins, and if they were to be handed to him, the town would be spared.

However, not knowing who the assassins were, King Aegeus surrendered the whole town to Minos ' mercy.

These assassins were known as cike ( 刺客, literally: " stabbing guests ").

Seeking forgiveness, the assassins travelled to Rome and were ordered by the Pope to serve as knights in the Holy Lands for a period of fourteen years.

The Dorjis were not implicated in the attempt — which was described as a " private matter "— and the would-be assassins were pardoned by the Druk Gyalpo.

For instance, during the reign of Darius I, the inhabitants of the Greek city of Barca, in Cyrenaica, were deported to Bactria for refusing to surrender assassins.

One of the assassins was Piotr Shabelsky-Bork, who was subsequently convicted of the murder and sentenced to a fourteen-year prison term, but who served only a small part of that sentence — the judicial system of Germany at the time being more lenient with right-wing criminals than with their leftist equivalents.

Hong Gye-hun and Minister Yi Gyeong-jik ( 이경직, 李耕稙 ) were subsequently killed in battle and the assassins ( Their number is estimated to be around 20 ) proceeded to the Okhoru ( 옥호루, 玉壺樓 ) in Geoncheonggung and subsequently gang-raped and killed Empress Myeongseong.

Gabrielle made the first step towards bridging that chasm when Fourrier assassins set the Fallon house on fire and subsequently killed both Gabrielle and James.

The Daily Ardmoreite reported that the four lynched men were " one of the bloodiest band of murderers in the state of Oklahoma and an organization of professional assassins, that for a record of blood crimes, probably has no equal in the annals of criminal history in the entire southwest.

Khalkhali is known to have been one of Khomeini's circle of disciples as far back as 1955 and is reported to have reconstructed the former secret society of Islamic assassins known as the Fadayan-e Islam after its suppression, but was not a well-known figure to the public prior to the Islamic Revolution.

Sima escaped from Zhao's assassins on his return journey and reported to Zhang that the state power of Qin had fallen into the hands of Zhao.

Conspiracy theories about assassins and impersonations were put aside when the Gowen family reported that he had been " acting queerly for some time and that there was a strain of hereditary insanity in his family.

In 1972, the Virginia Gazette newspaper of Williamsburg reported that CIA officers were trained as assassins on base.

In this story there appear to be two Davroses: one is a head in a tank and apparently a decoy for assassins ; the other is in his usual chair ( which can now hover ), emerging from hiding when the decoy is assassinated.

* 2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.

In 2009, a genetically enhanced, 9-year-old female super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara ( Jessica Alba ), escapes along with eleven others like herself from a secret government institution, codenamed Manticore, where they were born, raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins.

During the medieval period, Western scholarship on the Ismailis contributed to the popular view of the community as a radical sect of assassins, believed to be trained for the precise murder of their adversaries.

Campbell's frequent would-be assassins are revealed to be members of contemporary agencies also engaged in time manipulation who, for unknown reasons, do not want to see Mike rescued by the Time Corps.

Of particular concern was the fact that a Bombay detective had wired the names and descriptions of the assassins along with the fact that they were known to be in Delhi stalking Gandhi.

Nikephoros was warned that assassins were in the palace, and demanded the palace be searched.

In the 1990s psychologist D. Corydon Hammond publicized a detailed theory of ritual abuse drawn from hypnotherapy sessions with his patients, alleging they were victims of a worldwide conspiracy of organized, secretive clandestine cells who used torture, mind control and ritual abuse to create alternate personalities that could be " activated " with codewords and were trained as assassins, prostitutes, drug traffickers, and child sex workers ( used to create child pornography ).

He leaves Luke to sober up and seeks his stepbrother Mandor, who thinks that their half-brother Jurt may be at least one of the assassins trying to kill Merlin-right now, most likely, for headship of the House of Sawall once its current lord dies, since Mandor ( the eldest son ) has stepped aside, leaving that office to be disputed between Merlin and Jurt ( who was indeed the werewolf from earlier.

On 14 November Dorothy Thompson, who in 1934 had become the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, made an impassioned broadcast to an estimated 5 million listeners in defence of Grynszpan, pointing out that the Nazis themselves had made heroes of the assassins of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.

" In London, Prime Minister James Callaghan condemned the assassins as a " common enemy whom we must destroy or be destroyed by ".

After the murder of Pertinax ( 28 March 193 ), the Praetorian assassins announced that the throne was to be sold to the man who would pay the highest price.

By carefully balancing these numbers, fighter / mages, thief / assassins, and other weird combinations can be devised.

In order not to be completely delegitimized by the murder of Rathenau, Ehrhardt carefully looked to it, that no connections between him and the assassins could be detected.

The conspirators considered the restaurant a prime location for the hit because the area would be packed with bustling crowds of holiday shoppers, making it easier for the assassins to blend in and escape.

Suffolk accuses Gloucester of treason and has him imprisoned, but before Gloucester can be tried, Suffolk sends two assassins to kill him.

The trial of the murderers in 1883 ( see James Carey ) made it evident that the death of Cavendish was not premeditated, and that he was not recognised by the assassins ; the plot was against Mr. Burke, and Cavendish was murdered because he happened to be in the company of Burke.

During the medieval period, Western scholarship on the Ismailis contributed to the popular view of the community as a radical sect of assassins, believed to be trained for the precise murder of their adversaries.

The assassins moved on to find Prince Mahmud and attempt to murder him too, he was more fortunate though and later ordered the assassins to be executed.