1.   In the days leading up to the debate, police said they uncovered a plan designed by unnamed drug traffickers to assassinate politicians who were seen as favoring extradition.

2.   Why assassinate a politician or indiscriminately kill people when an attack on electronic switching will produce far more dramatic and lasting results?

3.   In Bihar, a northern state which has a reputation for political lawlessness, two politicians were assassinated in separate attacks Thursday.

4.   In Bihar, which has a reputation for political lawlessness, two politicians were assassinated in separate attacks Thursday.

5.   Since the end of the war, a few leftist politicians have been assassinated.

6.   That attack came four months after Sikh terrorists exploded a powerful car bomb in an abortive bid to assassinate a politician of the governing Congress Party in New Delhi.

7.   The next day, two prominent far-right politicians were assassinated, and another right-wing leader warned that Haiti was on the brink of civil war.

8.   Two prominent right-wing politicians were assassinated Tuesday and gunmen assaulted the national police headquarters and the Legislative Palace on Monday.

9.   But Burundi has its own political crisis brewing, and two politicians were assassinated last month in Bujumbura.