How efficient would "traditional" assassins be today?

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SyphonX

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CanadianElite said:
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i flash back the radio program about the CIA trying to kill Castro. They tried A LOT

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The US has a long standing tradition of trying to incite all of South America into attacking the US head on, so the US can promptly pillage Cuba and South America in general and say "See, they attacked us first, so we're going to take all their resources anyway. If the rest of the world doesn't mind."

The only reason you ever hear US officials or the media accusing any region south of the US of 'threats' is because no region wants to accept their super-corrupt corporate deals, like with the recent genetically modified corn importing from the US; Corporate America establishes a position in S.A. and then promptly takes everything. They're selling corn so cheap in Mexico because they can produce so g.d. much that Mexico has nearly no corn industry now. Then they started importing laid-off Mexican farmers to come work for cheap wages. Corporate pillaging.

The only way America can "justify" an 'attack' anywhere South is to continue to prod their leaders. Doing supposed "black op assassinations" to make the leaders paranoid and ridiculously nervous of the US tends to do the trick. If they wanted Castro dead, he would have been dead, period.

When a southern region stops playing ball with corporate America, the US immediately starts manipulating confrontations.

Try to picture a dirty cop poking someone in the chest until he swings, so the cops have an 'excuse' to play rough.. and you will get the idea.
 

Danny Ocean

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Tibernite said:
Sorry to sound nit-picky here, but bulletproof in NO WAY means stab proof.
Don't they construct the vest from knife-proof fabric and then pad that out with kevlar plates?

Perhaps my opinion on the manufacture of damage-resistant vests is misguided, but it seems like the logical thing to do. Especially for a very important person.
 

Roocifer

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During the Cold War I believe the Russians killed a defector on the streets of london (while waiting for a bus) with an umbrella with a poisoned tip!
 

smithy1234

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If they were just killing people with knives I think they'd be effective, not as good as assassins with guns however.
 

ThreeWords

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Poison, anyone?

I seem to remember something about the KGB being accused of poisoning some Russian guy who was hiding in England for some reason.

Looks like some old methods still work...
 

Caliostro

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Current day assassins are just "traditional" assassins that got up to date. There are still people who know how to be invisible, you're just misunderstanding the concept.

Being invisible isn't about disappearing, it's about not being noticed.

That said, assassins can still use everything they used to (knives, poisons, deceit, betrayal, stealth, etc) but for all the things invented to stop them (video surveillance, finger print/retinal scanners, alarms, etc) they got new things to work with (sniper rifles, bombs, hacking, silencers, etc).

Assassins and assassination hasn't changed, they only wear a different face and use different tools.
 

mrhappyface

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Pretty effective actually if he/she knew what they were doing. Take the Beltway Sniper for example. An ex-marine sniper armed with an AR-15 and his son for a spotter. He was able to pick off targets from the back of a vehicle. It took months to find him and people were making up all these weird theories and spending craploads of money.