Once he was in exile, he joined the ANC, where he was known as Comrade Dirk with allegiance to Nelson Mandela, and himself became an assassination target for the white-minority government.
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So why do so many Afghan interpreters fear that they are or will be a target for assassination?
Ford survived crises of another sort during two separate trips to California in September 1975, when he was the target of assassination attempts.
He reportedly took extreme care to ensure he was not a target for assassination, moving carefully through Gaza and never carrying a mobile phone, a friend told the AFP news agency.
Al-Hakim himself was also the target of assassination attempts.
Benazir Bhutto was the target of an assassination attempt in October, shortly after returning from an eight-year exile.
Then, on May 29th, Hun Sen's aides announced that he had been the target of an assassination attempt.
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was the target of an assassination attempt yesterday on the streets of her district in Tucson.
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"Belaid was killed, but the real target behind the assassination is the Tunisian revolution as a whole, "Jebali said of his political adversary.
For instance, some of the leaks were attributed to officials among the presumably quite restricted number of subordinates who participate in highly classified meetings with Mr. Obama to target terrorists for assassination.
The billionaire had close ties to exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who lives in London and who has been the target of several alleged assassination plots.
The Queen herself has been the target of a rash of assassination attempts, which is why Mycroft, a confidant of hers, gets involved.
Mr Kadyrov survived several assassination attempts by Chechen rebels before Sunday's bomb hit its target.
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