Some believe Hassan Sabbah was a hero and some believe he was a thief and killer! And the word ASSASSIN came from the persian word of HASHASHIN.
Hassan Sabbah used to live in caves near the city of Qazvin (200 miles west of Tehran)
Supposedly Hassan Sabbah's killers were high on Hashish (means grass in Arabic--I studied Arabic and knew at least that) Assassin is some corruption of Hashish.
Anyway, William Burroughs made a record where he takes the persona of Hassan Sabbah and rails against Coka Cola and all the rest of it.
I have this record. It is exactly like a Bin Laden Fatwah except that this is before Bin Laden. I mean Burroughs is from the BEAT Generation.
Burroughs lived in Boulder sometimes. He mostly lived with his guns in a shack in Lawrence Kansas.
He used to carry a walking stick with a sword in it.
And he had a tasor before any of us ever heard of it.