EIGHT Civil Co-Operation Bureau members have applied for amnesty for conspiring to kill minister Dullah Omar in 1989. The eight applicants, Carl Casteling Botha, Leon Andre Maree, Wouter Basson, Abram Van Zyl, Daniel F Du Toit Burger, Pieter Johan Verster, Edward Webb and Ferdinand Barnard planned to kill Omar by switching medicine he regalarly took with poison. They never went through with the plan. The eight have also applied for amnesty for conspiring to murder journalist, Gavin Evans and for bombing the Early Learning Centre in Athlone in 1989. The hearings will take place at the Early Learning Centre in Athlone, from March 13 to 17.