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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Well, one things for sure - the methods for political assassinations are definitely not as covert as they used to be back during the Cold War. Much to the chagrin of the world over, they appear to be much easier to carry out when you strap bombs to your waist or drive an explosive-ridden car into a crowd. And then if that doesn't get the job done, the job can certainly be finished in the ensuing chaos.
For me, that is far more terrifying than say, a CIA-backed operation.
I guess poison-tipped cigars have gone the way of the Dodo bird....
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One of the first rules of assassination is to keep things simple, sometimes and I'm talking in the earlier days of the CIA their plots were convoluted and overly complex, and involve too many people. Trying to use poison against Castro, and hiring the Mob to execute the Bay of Pigs invasions were doomed to failure because there were just too many things that spin beyond your control.
If your going to admire anything about these terrorist groups is that their Assassination plots are simply a guy with a bomb vest, a person with a rifle, or a mine set in the road. It certainly makes the required intelligence simpler as all you need to know is their travel schedule and their security. You don't care about what they eat, or who they sleep with or anything like that.
The second rule is to always make sure that the assassin ends up dead so that you can't track back to the responsible group or person.
The Bhutto assassination was well executed. Take your shot with a pistol which is easy to conceal in a crowd, and then detonate a bomb to make sure your target is dead, and the assassin is dead.
Its tragic, but you have to admire how effective it was in getting rid of a high profile and probably well protected target.
And it probably only cost a couple of thousand dollars to pull off.