The phrase "assassination machine" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing weapons, military technology, or metaphorically to describe a system or process that leads to targeted killings.
Example: "The documentary explored the evolution of the assassination machine and its impact on modern warfare."
Alternatives: "killing apparatus" or "murder device".
The genesis of what he calls "the most robust, streamlined assassination machine in history" spans more than a century, beginning in Ottoman Palestine, where Eastern European Zionist guerrillas covertly arranged for the slaying of a Bedouin policeman.
In fact, given how humdrum headlines about the droning of terror leaders have become in our world, and the visible futility and failure that goes with them, you might think that someone in Washington would reconsider the efficacy of drones -- of, that is, an assassination machine that has proven anything but a victory weapon.
Press conferences replaced speeches to crowds, helicopters replaced horses, and, except in the assassination scene, machine guns replaced spears and swords.
Skyscrapers, airports, phones, walkie-talkies, personal computers, vestibules, automated teller machines, assassination attempts on presidents: he finds them all comically outdated.
In the past five years, Bulgaria has weathered machine gun assassinations and inventive daylight attacks.
But in my defence, I would travel away from that moment to perform the only mandatory task for anyone handed a time machine ��� the early assassination of Adolf Hitler.
Police, prosecutors and federal agents immediately and publicly speculated that Capone was behind the assassination, noting that the precision machine gun ambush was typical of his attacks.
There were other new words – gelignite, incendiary, Molotov, assassination, Saracen, barricades, Chichester-Clark, squaddies, sub-machine gun, and 'army bomb disposal units'.
Moscow has dismissed accusations by Ukraine's prime minister that the "Russian totalitarian machine" was responsible for the assassination of prominent Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who was killed outside his apartment in Kiev Tuesday.
We can go back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt". Gang shootings in Chicago led to a push to outlaw machine guns in 1934, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led to further regulations in 1968.
Karzai had been the target of a number of assassination attempts, the most recent a rocket and machine-gun attack in May 2009 as his convoy was travelling towards Kabul.
