Assassination euphemisms

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jul 14 15:00:32 UTC 2010


  Of course, this is also the line from Apocalypse Now, specifically,
from the scene where Willard gets his orders. The specific instruction
was, "Terminate... Terminate with extreme prejudice."

     VS-)

On 7/14/2010 10:11 AM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
> I remember reading about an incident during the Vietnam War.  American =
> soldiers were in a helicopter with a captured Viet Cong and radioed to =
> the ground asking what to do with him.  The reply: "Terminate with =
> extreme prejudice." =20
> =20
> Gerald Cohen
>
> ________________________________
>
> Message from Jerome Foster, Tue 7/13/2010 11:15 PM:
>
> "TERMINATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE" WAS SUPPOSEDLY USED BY CIA OR GREEN
> BERETS DURING VIETNAM WAR...
>

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