Prosecutor Tim Reardon called the conspiracy to commit assassination "a deadly serious crime aimed at the heart of the criminal justice system".
Thus, the Christian Zionist lobby had successfully cleared the way for Israel to commit targeted assassinations on the leaders of the Palestinian movements.
A complete list would include four pistols (one used to commit an assassination in Germany), sniper rifles, night-vision equipment and special vans outfitted with surveillance equipment.
To do so, he added, the Germans "did not hesitate to commit character assassination on a country and on individual people".
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.
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.
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.
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.
The analogy between taking the law into one's own hands to commit a political assassination and to expose the slide to a police state is far-fetched, to say the least.
