So why do so many Afghan interpreters fear that they are or will be a target for assassination?

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Ford survived crises of another sort during two separate trips to California in September 1975, when he was the target of assassination attempts.

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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.

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Al-Hakim himself was also the target of assassination attempts.

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Benazir Bhutto was the target of an assassination attempt in October, shortly after returning from an eight-year exile.

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Then, on May 29th, Hun Sen's aides announced that he had been the target of an assassination attempt.

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Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was the target of an assassination attempt yesterday on the streets of her district in Tucson.

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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.

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