Are there real assassins in real world?..I mean professional killers who live alone and hired to kill and stuff like in Hollywood movies?!
I know it's kinda dump question but i really interested to know if any of you guys like met one of them or heard real stories about them.
Just asking. :)
Believe it or not, I once lived next door to an assassin, in New Jersey. He was a tall white man, drove a Crown Victoria with Virginia plates, and was gone for months at a time. For about the first two years after moving into the neighborhood he rarely spoke to me, except for a brief, "Hello." However, we ended up becoming decent friends. We played golf and chess together on a number of occasions. I'll never forget it, we were watching a NJ Devils-Philadelphia Flyers playoff game in my basement when I innocently asked him what he did for a living. He responded, "I'm an assassin."
shareOh, don't stop there! And then you became lovers, moved in together and since nowadays you can even get married, you're both the real ASSassin now! Congratulations!
shareI could tell you but then I would have to kill you.
A friend of a friend works in the City in London, and apparently one of the people at their law firm used to kill people for the CIA! Sounds ridiculous and is probably a load of old nonsense, but knowing the people involved (not the man himself!), they're not idiots or gullible by any means, so you never know. Then again anybody who looks like they fit the part can claim this sort of thing and possibly be taken seriously, there's somebody "from the SAS" in nearly every pub etc.
shareOf course there are professional assassins, if they didn't exist you wouldn't see them in movies all the time...just like Ninjas!
Haha, you are not wrong there. 'Andy McNab', the real ex-SAS soldier and author said in a recent interview he has met someone claiming to be him in a pub.
There's also a couple of nutters in the UK who have set themselves up as ninja bodyguard/superhero/vigilantes. Martin Faulks in Norwich is one of them and the other is a masked guy in Tunbridge Wells. They are probably more dangerous to themselves than anyone else.
I met Chuck Norris once. I just said hey. I didn't shake his hand and I pissed myself when he walked right by me.
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Nooooo, pretty sure he's an assassin...
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Well of course. You have hitman for organized crime like Yakuza,drug cartels,etc. Then you have killers tied to defense contractors,NGO,government agencies.Mossad is really the only government agency with an obvious assassin division. You have independent killers that get hired by government,corporations,wealthy,etc.
Its usually spread by word of mouth through intermediaries like defense contractors. But right now the money is in being a private contractor but really mercenary. For these jobs you need the training. I know French Foreign Legion started cracking down on recruiting policies because too many people were doing mercenary,wetwork after they served their time.The market is open if you want to get involved in that work but you will probably end up dead.You won't be staying in some nice European hotel like the cold war days. Most of this work is concentrated in Middle East,Africa and Asia. So in simple terms you won't just go out and be some international killer because you need contacts and track record first unless you're some street level killer. They usually get their contacts and track record through special forces,government agencies,private contractors,etc.
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Yes. Clooney's character is a gunsmith. The movie is based on the book "A Very Private Gentleman." And that character is a gunsmith.
Anywho... for those truly interested in the assassin subject, try the book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman." This book is about the entire process of NSA (and other members of the intelligence community) and affiliate corporations' dealings with foreign nations concerning financial aid through the World Bank and USAID, and how it is used to suck their resources dry and otherwise control them through sphere of influence, written by the former economist John Perkins who worked for the consulting firm Chas T. Main. Further, there is much information on when this process fails, so nicknamed "jackals" are called in for plane crashes, poisonings, false-flag killings, etc.
For a gunsmith he certainly racks up quite a body count in the movie!
shareI myself am not a professional assassin. If I was, I wouldn't be on imdb. I would be in some chic Italian cafe trying really hard to look equally world-weary and cool.
However, I do know an ex-Navy SEAL who is now employed in Africa to hunt down and kill ivory poachers. So that sorta counts.
"Rampart: Squad 51."
Well, he's a paranoid gunsmith
shareHmm, Confessions of an Economic Hitman looked interesting, until I searched for more info on the author. Honestly, his story, if you think about it a little, is pure *beep*
I'm sure a lot of similar stuff goes on, but he was no part of it. His story reeks of fantasy. Another conspriacy theorist bullsh*tting his way to a fortune.
Intresting area though, but would rather read about it from amore reliably sounding source.
Mossad is really the only government agency with an obvious assassin division.
Yes. However they're highly romanticized in movies. For further info go to www.cia.gov
shareThis is where the "definition" factor fits in, along with labels, appropriation, accountability, liability,... not to mention marketing of one's services. For many, the same act goes by different names.
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