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death squad

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death squad
n.
A clandestine military or paramilitary group employed to carry out political assassinations.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.death squaddeath squad - a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval)
hit squad - a team of assassins
Translations

death squad nescuadrĂ³n m de la muerte
death squad nescadron m de la mort
death squad nTodeskommando nt
death squad nsquadra della morte

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I was so moved and upset, reading about the "sexual cleansing" happening in Iraq ["Targeted by Death Squads," September 26].
A few minutes earlier, he had demonstrated the fine art of winning, important for a man essentially representing a death squad.
Bush's "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" leaves out what may be its two bloodiest pillars: a heightened air war and, on the ground, rampant death squad activity.
 
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