Sentence examples for covert assassination from inspiring English sources

An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed by a bomb in his car in what appears to be the latest covert assassination to hinder the country's nuclear programme.

The allegation was that a covert assassination team answering directly to Dick Cheney, the then-vice-president, had been responsible for the killings of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, and Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.

Though the book is unlikely to end speculation about who is responsible for the covert assassination campaign against Iran's nuclear scientists, its assertions correspond with a longstanding assumption among many security experts in Washington's policy circles.

It would have been unthinkable for the UK to provide this kind of information to Libya in the 1980s – at the time, Gaddafi was running a covert assassination campaign to kill Libyan dissidents in Britain.

These turned out to be the precursors of what became known as MK-ULTRA, a C.I.A. project, beginning in the Korean War, to explore the use of drugs like LSD as truth serums, as well as botulism and anthrax, for use in covert assassination.

It combines the tensions of a murky underworld tale about its covert assassination squad with character studies of its unlikely team, and conflicted leader Eric Bana in particular, and its key theme: is revenge ever justified, and how does it affect the perpetrators and the values of its state sponsors?

Of course, the US and its friends have carried out covert assassinations and sponsored death squads for many years.

The Israeli secret services have a long track record of both overt and covert assassinations of their enemies.

And of late it has been boosted by the seeming efforts of Iran or its friends to answer covert assassinations, apparently by Israel, with attacks and attempted attacks of their own in India, Georgia and Thailand.

There is concern, and I put it no more highly than that, that the coalition special forces, in which the Brits, Germans and Australians have contingents, have been involved in covert assassinations and assisting in US-sponsored extraordinary renditions.

Is Fidel Castro, the target of 101 CIA covert assassinations, still alive in hospital, or was it his ghost lingering on in the squares of Havana while Cuba celebrated his 80th birthday on December 2? Are 60.5 million copies of The Da Vinci Code merely a testament to airport reading?