Their spectral presence is most frequently sensed around the prison chapel, where 1916 Easter Rising leader Joseph Plunkett married Grace Gifford just hours before his execution by firing squad.

BBC: Haunted Dublin

It is the last one he writes just three hours before his execution by the Nazis.

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If you tracked back the Johnson execution video, which made the rounds of cyberspace just days before, or other sophisticated Saudi al Qaeda video "documentaries" that had appeared earlier in the year on the Web, then you'd end up in this building in Riyadh.

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