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assassination attempt

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He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt. Ramsey Clark

One had been dismissed - and subsequently executed - for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and the third died in his bunk of natural causes - for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. R. A. Salvatore

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan. Ben Affleck

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