January 5, 2003

Assassinations or Assassination Plots with U.S. Involvement, 1945-2002

Afghanistan 1998 Osama bin Laden, Islamic militant

Cambodia 1959, 63,69 Norodom Sihanouk, Leader

China 1950's Zhou Enlai, Prime Minister

Chile 1970 Salvador Allende, President

1970 Gen. Rene Schneider, Chief of Army

Congo 1961 Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister

1975 Mobutu Sese Seko, President, Zaire

Costa Rica 1950's-70's Jose Figueres, President

Cuba 1960's Fidel Castro, President

1960's Raul Castro, Government Official

1967 Che Guevara, Leader

Dominican Republic 1961 Gen Rafael Trujillo, Leader

1965 Francisco Caamano, Opposition Leader

Egypt 1957 Gamal Abdul Nasser, President

France 1965-66 Charles de Gaulle, President

Haiti 1961 Francois APapa Doc@ Duvalier, Leader

India 1955 Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister

Indonesia 1950's, 1962 Sukarno, President

Iran 1953 Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister

1982 Ayatollah Khomeini, Leader

Iraq 1960 Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, Leader

1991 Saddam Hussein, Leader

Jamaica 1976 Michael Manley, Prime Minister

Korea 1949 Kim Koo, Opposition Leader

1951 Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea

Lebanon 1985 Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Shiite Leader

Lybia 1980-86 Moammar Qaddafi, Leader

Morocco 1983 Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Army Commander

Nicaragua 1983 Miguel d=Escoto, Foreign Minister

1984 The Sandinista National Directorate (nine comandantes)

Panama 1970's, 1981 General Omar Torrijos, Leader

1972 General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Intelligence

Philippines 1955 Claro Recto, Opposition Leader

Vietnam 1963 Ngo Dinh, Diem, President, South Vietnam

West Germany 1950's 200 political figures, in case of a Soviet invasion

Yugoslavia 1999 Slobodan Milosevic, President

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Summarized from Blum, William, Rogue State B A Guide to the World=s Only Superpower (Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine), 2000.