Rolf has been dispatched numerous times to execute official and unofficial diplomatic initiatives with high-ranking government and opposition leaders in countries around the world, including the former Soviet Union, Nicaragua and El Salvador where he was actively involved in facilitating negotiations between warring factions to end the conflict.
A former guard tells Jesse Ball that, just before a condemned man is executed, officials sign a document attesting that the prisoner is who he says he is.
But Al Qaeda has been conducting major operations in intervals of 12 to 24 months, and it has taken as long as three years from the time the ideas are first conceived until they are executed, officials said.
Eight Pakistani soldiers who had been taken hostage by militants in Pakistan's tribal areas have been executed, officials said Friday, in the latest sign that the effort by Pakistan's government to flush foreign militants from the region has gone badly awry.
An Iranian scientist who became the center of a real-life spy saga after he was accused of sharing information with the United States about his country's disputed nuclear program has been executed, officials in Tehran confirmed Sunday.
Certain districts are dominated by insurgents, who attack American military patrols, murder Iraqi policemen, and execute election officials.
Vast tracts of the countryside are becoming depopulated, just as they were during the long years of war.A pattern has developed in which a band of UNITA men surround a village before dawn, open fire indiscriminately, search for and summarily execute government officials, and then loot and burn the houses.
Their plan, according to police, was to take over a courthouse, execute public officials, and ultimately overthrow the government.
Their plan, according to police, was to takeover a courthouse, execute public officials, and ultimately overthrow the government.
In a letter dated 2 July 1941 Heydrich communicated to his SS and Police Leaders that the Einsatzgruppen were to execute Comintern officials, ranking members of the Communist Party, extremist and radical Communist Party members, people's commissars, and Jews in party and government posts.
