How Do We Know Whether Someone Has Been Assassinated? - International Policy Digest

Such peculiar accidents of politically divisive figures in Western democracies can be found peppering news broadcasts in the West every year, leading to popular suspicions that powerful forces – usually tied to the CIA or MI6 – wanted them to be... The most well-worn case is, of course, President John F. Kennedy, but the allegations keep flowing with regards to more contemporary figures like Dr. David Kelly (suicide), Michael Hastings (crashed into a tree), Yasser Arafat (stroke), Gareth... In a quintessential example, journalist Gary Webb, who had exposed CIA involvement with drug trafficking, supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head – apparently his hand shook so he blew off his jaw with the first shot. One independent researcher, Joël van der Reijden from the has catalogued several hundred deaths that have raised suspicions of covert involvement by powerful figures in the West. Reijden acknowledges that none of the cases he outlines qualifies as a five out of 5 definite government hit and cover up. Does this mean that such perverse circumstances surrounding these deaths are simply the. Source: www.internationalpolicydigest.org