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  • Send out hit-squads to steal or harvest organs to save the poor?

    Think Progress » Sen. Alexander: Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care Reform Would ‘End The Senate’ 2010

  • The CIA set up the hit-squads to do this but Leon Panetta q.v appointed by Obama stopped the project and leaked to the media.

    Splash! 2009

  • Its members have been the primary target of the Iranian hit-squads all over Europe.

    EU's flawed combat against terrorism 2008

  • Pursued across the border by Soviet-sponsored hit-squads keen to liquidate the Trotskyist militia for whom Orwell had fought, they were lucky to escape with their lives.

    Another piece of the puzzle 2005

  • Mugabe using hit-squads, Angola to send police by on

    03/21/2007 2007

  • "What we do know, however, is that hundreds of Iraqis are being murdered and that paramilitary hit-squads of the proxy government organized by US trainers with a fulsome pedigree in state terrorism are increasingly being associated with them."

    Death Squad Democracy 2006

  • Does that 300,000 figure happen to include the brigade that was removed from duty for being hit-squads?

    Think Progress » Cheney: ‘General Overall Situation’ In Iraq Is Going ‘Remarkably Well’ 2006

  • Among the report's more damning findings on the IFP are that it colluded with the former government's security forces to carry out mass attacks and kill African National Congress leaders, that it set up hit-squads to kill or injure ANC leaders and IFP leadership

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • According to the weekly Sunday Independent Newspaper, key members, including a nephew of former foreign minister Pik Botha, were expected to admit their roles in Apartheid-era government hit-squads.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The two taxi associations admitted that so-called hit-squads were operating in the area but both downplayed the seriousness of the situation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

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