Assassination euphemisms

Garson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jul 14 05:58:01 UTC 2010


Executive action
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_action

Used as a movie title in 1973
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070046/

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Mark Peters <markpeters33 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I'm looking for euphs for assassination like regime change, remove, salvage,
> targeted killing, etc. I appreciate any suggestions!
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> Mark
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