Assassination Attempts

The would-be killers mounted a daring plan: renting a property adjacent to Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos' suburban farm and secreting police uniforms, weapons and motorcycles at the site to facilitate a Holy Week assassination. Once again, Colombia's largest rebel group, known as the FARC, was trying to kill Santos. In revealing the foiled plot this week and announcing the arrests of 11 alleged rebel conspirators, Colombian National Police commander Gen.

A Dutch driver careened through police barriers and plowed into a crowd of people cheering their popular queen Thursday, in an allegedly premeditated assault on the royal family that killed five bystanders and injured 12, authorities said. Some of those struck were thrown into the air. The speeding car came within a few yards of the open-top bus carrying Queen Beatrix and her family down a parade route, then smashed into a stone monument.