Думата assassin (убиец, похитител на обществено значими личности) е от арабски произход (хассас = убивам).

Имало на времето една крепост 11-13в. Аламут. Там имало школа за точно такива прикрити убийци тип камикадзе. Шефът на школата добил огромна популярност и власт защото неговите assassins правели показни покушения на личности. Обикновени пред джамии и то в Петък - когато имало най-много хора да гледат.

"The Old Man kept at his court such boys of twelve years old as seemed to him destined to become courageous men. When the Old Man sent them into the garden in groups of four, ten or twenty, he gave them hashish to drink. They slept for three days, then they were carried sleeping into the garden where he had them awakened."

"When these young men woke, and found themselves in the garden with all these marvelous things, they truly believed themselves to be in paradise. And these damsels were always with them in songs and great entertainments; they; received everything they asked for, so that they would never have left that garden of their own will."

"And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: 'Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise'. And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly."

- Marco Polo - on his visit to Alamut in 1273


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