11.   Moscow authorities are calling the crime a political murder.

12.   Others assert that he may even have connived in political murders.

13.   Political murders, commonplace in previous elections, again prefaced two rounds of May and July balloting.

14.   Political murder has returned to Iran, with liberal intellectuals the target and conservative religious forces a possible sponsor.

15.   Political murder is now rare.

16.   Raul Salinas, who is in a Mexican prison awaiting trial on charges of illegal enrichment and masterminding a political murder, has denied any wrongdoing.

17.   Robert Fernea, a U.S.-born UT professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, said the killing was a political murder that appeared to leave Hamas leaderless.

18.   Some derive from tabloid photos of crimes of passion and political murders, others from advertisements for bodybuilding and headache cures.

19.   The lawyers wanted the former president to testify about the political murder investigation that Ruiz Massieu is accused of covering up during the Salinas administration.

20.   The U.N. human-rights office, which Hun Sen has repeatedly tried to close, tracked scores of suspected political murders between the coup and the election.