Assassination euphemisms

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

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."  
 
Gerald Cohen

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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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