For example, an attempt to bring down Zia's jet with a surface-to-air missile in 1982 is bungled because the would-be assassin has never used the weapon before.

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If Mr Buhari were to appear, he could be asked, for example, about the bungled attempt in 1984 to kidnap a dubious Nigerian politician, Umaru Dikko, who was found bound in a crate at London's Heathrow airport.

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This is to say nothing of Eliot Spitzer's bungled global Wall Street settlement and a soon-to-be watered down Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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