Tag: ASSASSINATION

Back in January, an Israeli hit squad assassinated Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh at a hotel in Dubai. Presumably operating under Mossad, the 11 assassins disguised themselves as tennis players in order to gain access to the hotel and do the deed, but, according to a new investigative report from GQ, they used a decidedly 21st-century technique to track their target. According to investigative ...

In Hugo Chavez's mind, everyone wants to kill him -- even, apparently, on Twitter. According to the AP, police in Venezuela have arrested a man on charges that he used the microblogging site to incite an assassination attempt on President Chavez. Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores Trossel says that the 27-year-old suspect is an engineer at Venezuela's state-run power company, National Electrical ...

Facebook is no stranger to the debate over freedom of speech. As the networking site grows, and as its increasing number of users make their opinhions known, the site has had to draw its own boundaries between acceptable self-expression and open hostility. The most recent controversy, though, has worried even the Secret Service. Using a third party application that allows users to create and ...

Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. Whether you're the paranoid type who thinks the government is hiding lizard people in the basement of Area-51, or if you simply revel in debunking conspiracies as ridiculous nonsense, you can't help but get sucked into the almost romantic notion of some larger, possibly nefarious scheme being carried out behind closed doors. The Discovery Channel is always ...