Who is / are the Illuminate?
Read Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons".
Illuminati used to be a secret order (well, real one but long gone). In the Brown's book the author aligns Illuminati with Assassins (the medieval Islamic sect of assassins founded in 11th century by Hasan as-Sabah) to kill the Pope and the candidates for papacy.
Interesting reading, a bit like Umberto Eco, but in the "lite" version. Read the book last Saturday in one go. The reading was so catching, that the whole day I was sitting under the apple tree, reading the book, with only minute interruptions :o)