Assassination euphemisms

[Victor Steinbok]

  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
>
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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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