Word: shukri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hired assassin has no friends. Mustafa Shukri Asho, who killed King Abdullah of Jordan last July, had expected to escape under cover of grenades thrown by fellow conspirators, but no grenades were thrown. His fellow conspirators had planned that Asho should be killed by guards' bullets. On his dead body was found an Arab talisman bearing the words: "Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover...