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decapitation
noun
the assassination of a head of state US
Media-friendly military jargon.- American officials described the overnight precision bomb attack as a “decapitation exercise”. Such a mission is designed to kill the leadership of a hostile regime, or, as the US officials describe it, to “cut the head off the snake”[.] — The Guardian, p. 3, 21 March 2003
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