They would use one of their favourite assassination methods, a drive-by.
Assassination became the method of choice, in effect putting a price tag on suicide terrorism, to be paid by those who recruited and dispatched the human bombs.
His favoured method was assassination of the most important contemporary enemy of the Muslims, the apostate "Pharaoh", a clear reference to the president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
This method of assassination, in which a woman kisses a painting of her beloved and falls dead, is what most people who have read "The White Devil," John Webster's extra-gory revenge tragedy, seem to remember from it.
At least, unlike in today's Nigeria, where assassination is the preferred method of getting rid of opposition nuisances, my father's enemies apparently wanted him alive, just well tormented.
A special bonus was awarded, at the discretion of the judges, for an especially creative booby trap or method of assassination — for instance, a piece of paper with the word "Bomb" written on it, put into the earpiece of a telephone, to be detonated by a call.
The gardens are planted with kim giao trees, the bark of which was used to make royal chopsticks because it would flush red in the presence of poisoned food – a method of assassination that King Dinh Tien's eldest son and officials dispensed with in favour of using a cudgel to topple the dynastic line.
They would be considered far less trustworthy, and there was hardly any chance that the Mossad would reveal to non-Israelis some of its assassination unit's best methods.
"We said the Israeli side was violating the cease-fire," said Hussein al-Sheik, a senior figure in the Fatah movement of the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, and now, he said, they "have returned to their old method of assassinations, and we take a very grave view of it".
The method of the assassination was all too familiar.
