51.   It also claimed a failed assassination bid on Mubarak in Addis Ababa in June.

52.   Key Nigerian opposition figure Abraham Adesanya said Tuesday after escaping injury in an attack by gunmen in Lagos that the military regime was likely behind the assassination bid.

53.   Khartoum denied any involvement in the assassination bid and said it has found no trace of the three wanted militants on its territory.

54.   Mubarak, who returned to Cairo immediately after the attack, said the ringleader of the assassination bid was Sudanese.

55.   Mugabo has been in police custody since he was arrested following the assassination bid in February.

56.   Newspapers here reported that a high school superintendent was killed by suspected Moslem fundamentalists and a journalist survived an assassination bid on Monday.

57.   Officials of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, alleged a botched assassination bid against Hussein Abu Qweik and swore revenge.

58.   On Friday, senior PLO official Mahmoud Abbas said that Arafat had already been the target of several assassination bids in recent weeks.

59.   Other Hamas officials have alleged the tank blast was a botched assassination bid against Abu Qweik and have also sworn revenge.

60.   Relations between Khartoum and Cairo have deteriorated since Egypt accused Sudan of being behind a failed assassination bid on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June.