Bhutto's killers go back a long way

Seems there's a long history of assassination among the Muslims:

The term 'assassin' derives from hashshashin, a militant Ismaili Muslim sect, active in the Middle East from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries. This mystic secret society killed members of the Abbasid and Seljuq élite for political and religious reasons.
It is speculated that the assassins were drugged for their murders with hashish and opium; assassin derives either from hasishin, the influence of the drugs, or hassansin, after their leader, Hassan-i-Sabah. Hashishinnya was an offensive term depicting this cult by its Muslim and Mongolian detractors.

So, an ancient cult rears its ugly head into modern politics.
Who will rid me of this troublesome priest? has nothing on our current problem...