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The UAE government has denied the allegations in our investigation - that it had assassinated those without links to terrorism - saying they were "false and without merit".

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

He was clearly reading written words not his own, and he mispronounced — twice — the name of the Iranian official he had assassinated, Qasem Soleimani.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2020

The committee concluded that Ray had assassinated King — rejecting his claims of a frame-up — but cited “compelling indications of conspiracy” not fully investigated a decade earlier.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2015

In the Ayers decision in 2010, Kennedy said he could not support someone whose dedication page in a 1974 book included Sirhan Sirhan, the man who had assassinated his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 29, 2014

John Wilkes Booth had assassinated the president almost forty-eight hours before, but the manhunters had no solid leads.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson