Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Egyptian authorities before the hitmen reached their intended victim. Bakkush was roughed up by the Egyptians, smeared with human blood and photographed to look as if he had been murdered. The pictures were sent to Gaddafi, who immediately took credit for the apparent crime. According to Mubarak, the four gunmen-two of whom were English-revealed details of a Libyan hit list. On it were such leaders as Mitterrand, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, Britain's Margaret Thatcher and India's late Indira Gandhi...
...money from Vietnamese merchants in the U.S. They torture their rivals and threaten or kill journalists who try to expose them. One Vietnamese woman told how her publisher husband, whose magazine had carried articles about the gangs, had been warned to stop. When he did not, she said quietly, "gunmen came into where he worked and shot him to death." Another witness claimed that former South Vietnamese army officers led by Ky run a 1,000-member Vietnamese crime network in the U.S. Ky, who fled Viet Nam when U.S. troops pulled out in 1975, lives in Huntington Beach, Calif...
...Italy and Brazil, has spent the past two months singing to Italian and U.S. authorities. His song, like a good ballad, had told quite a tale. Buscetta, who is being kept under close guard in a secluded villa on the outskirts of Rome, had not only reportedly fingered the gunmen responsible for more than 100 murders, including that of Italy's leading Mafia fighter, but documented the existence of a "Sicilian connection" that operated outside established American Mafia organizations to supply much of the heroin that entered...
...even Buscetta's family was immune from the bloodletting. One day, gunmen burst into Buscetta's Palermo pizzeria and shot and killed his son-in-law. A day later, armed men cut down three of his lieutenants. Before long, Buscetta's brother and nephew were dead and Buscetta's two sons had disappeared. They are presumed dead...
They did their job poorly - or perhaps too well. In July 1979, three masked gunmen burst into a Brooklyn restaurant in which Galante was eating lunch and cut the old man down in a fusillade of bullets. Bonventre and Amato fled the scene unharmed. Hearing that the police were looking for them, they reappeared a few days later and submitted to questioning. The police, who could prove nothing, suspected that the pair at least had knowledge of the assassination. So did members of the Mob, who viewed Bonventre with a new respect. "It takes such guts to kill your boss...