Assassins' DeedsAssassins have been killing the powerful and famous for at least three thousand years. Personal ambition, revenge, and anger have encouraged many to violent deeds, like the Turkish sultan who had nineteen of his brothers strangled or the bodyguards who murdered a dozen Roman emperors. More recently, new motives have emerged, such as religious and political fanaticism, revolution, and liberation, with governments also getting in on the act. Meanwhile,