Prosecutor Tim Reardon called the conspiracy to commit assassination "a deadly serious crime aimed at the heart of the criminal justice system".
The police are committing assassinations.
This month, the American military said in a statement that it had arrested a man who had committed "assassinations against Iraqi judicial and police officials, and has allegedly coordinated improvised explosive device attacks against" the Iraqi police and army.
Written in Arabic, it covers topics that include advice for Islamic warriors on how to lie low in Western cultures (shave beard, don't be chatty) and explicit guidelines on committing assassinations, using everything from car bombs to clubs to a lethal stew of spoiled meat, green beans and corn.
But the Palestinian belief that the men were agents -- and that they had been sent to commit an assassination at the funeral -- circulated and riled up the crowd.
To do so, he added, the Germans "did not hesitate to commit character assassination on a country and on individual people".
The man selected to commit the assassination, whose name is Olofrevitch, has been arrested at the railway station at Cettinje, Montenegro, at the telegraphed request of the Belgrade police.
Mr. Flender, the director, who has known Mr. O'Brien since the two were undergraduates at Harvard in the 1980s, said in a telephone interview that he did not set out to create a puff piece or commit character assassination but simply wanted to depict Mr. O'Brien as he is.
The Russian regime commits political assassinations, wages war, breaks international and national law all over the world, and has succeeded in making Western countries complicit in its crimes — by employing Western financial networks and by making European countries, in particular, dependent on its exports of gas and oil.
Valdez noted that it has become increasingly common for women to traffic arms and drugs, launder money, and commit or order assassinations.
