The shootings in Nigeria echoed mass assassinations in Pakistan, where more than sixty polio workers and security personnel have been killed since 2012.
Then it all goes boom, CIA headquarters is devastated and Brody, who's gone rogue on his jihadist bosses, is fingered as the man behind the mass assassinations of much of the US intel/security establishment.
So there were serious abuses in terms of the names they got, and what began as a small program, with the names more or less vetted and carefully looked at individually, became a mass-assassination program.
The Bureau of Prisons classifies inmates it holds — some of whom might have been convicted of, say, multiple murder counts — as terrorists if their crimes were intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and.
The FBI's own definition of domestic terrorism says an act must meet three characteristics: It must appear intended 1) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, 2) to influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion, 3) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.
That same month, these groups managed to convince the Columbus Day Parade organizers in New York City to "de-invite" cast members from the processions, claiming, "Actors who participate in this mass character assassination do not deserve to be part of New York City's annual tribute to Columbus and to the millions of Italian Americans who helped make this country the power it is today".
The Baath regime had sustained itself from the start through the systemic use of torture, assassination, mass murder, and political suppression.
The plan is popular, to be sure, with paramilitary leaders like Carlos Castaño and Salvatore Mancuso, who both face charges here for mass killings and assassinations.
