Assassination

In its most common use, assassination has come to mean the killing of an important person. An assassin — one who carries out the assassination — is usually motivated by ideological or political reasons. Other motivations may be money in the case of a hitman; opposition to a person's beliefs or belief systems in the case of a fanatic; orders from a government that are often carried about by a subversive agent such as a spy; or loyalty to a competing leader or group.

See also

• Assassin's Guild
• The Assassination Bureau
• assassination market
• asymmetric warfare
• espionage
• Hashshashin
• mark (slang)
• Ninja
• terrorism
• regicide