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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (127832)	10/5/2001 9:17:15 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (3) of 436258

THE ASSASSINS OF ALAMUT: CHAPTER 1 PROLOGUE (if true it is chilling) Assassination as a political weapon is no doubt as old as organized human society but the word itself is of mediaeval origin and refers to the activities of a Persian sect who were popularly supposed to drug themselves by means of hashish, whence the name. But who were the original Assassins, and what did they believe about themselves? These are fascinating questions, whose interest is not confined to politics or history; the ramifications extend to religion, mysticism, and ideas about the millennium. The assassins were a heretical Islamic sect. They were a potent source of myth and legends; this emerges in an imaginative account written by Marco Polo, who visited the site of their castle at Alamut in Iran just after its destruction by the Mongols. He repeats the legend of how the future assassins were supposedly prepared for their missions by being drugged with hashish, brought into a secret pleasure garden, and told they had visited Paradise, to which they would return if they were killed in action. homepage.ntlworld.com

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