[Mach9]

When you've got the opportunity, look up the word "assassinate" in the Oxford English Dictionary (the BIG one).

[dickmc]

Terrible if true. Also, don't think this will play well in Peoria to the liberals.

[Dec31,1999]

"When you meet the unbelievers in the Jihad strike off their heads and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly." - Koran 47: 4

[familyop]

I recall something of that from the OED. How about the following definition of "assassin," from dict.org? ...same point, in synopsis?

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :

Assassin \As*sas"sin\, n. [F. (cf. It. assassino), fr. Ar.
`hashishin one who has drunk of the hashish. Under its
influence the Assassins of the East, followers of the Shaikh
al-Jabal (Old Man of the Mountain), were said to commit the
murders required by their chief.]
One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret
assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for
defense.