21.   An assassination attempt only raised his profile.

22.   An occasional target of Israeli assassination attempts, he clearly wondered about our intentions.

23.   And he ended last season with a cliffhanger, an assassination attempt against the president, further stirring interest.

24.   And when he survived an assassination attempt in March of that year, his popularity grew greater still.

25.   Another crisis erupted from the botched assassination attempt in Jordan of a political leader of Hamas, the Palestinian group responsible for several terrorist attacks in Israel.

26.   As a teenager, he lived with his family in Morocco and the Navy base where he went to school was surrounded by armed men following an assassination attempt.

27.   As Police Minister Moshe Shahal indicated that more arrests were likely, Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair warned in an interview that more assassination attempts could follow.

28.   Assad had survived several assassination attempts and at least one heart attack.

29.   At first, with the shotgun microphone aiming down at the couple like a rifle with a scope, we think we are witnessing an assassination attempt.

30.   At least two plots against Mubarak have been disclosed and militants carried out unsuccessful assassination attempts on the prime minister and two other senior ministers.