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The assassination delayed things, and July 5, McCullough swore in the new service's first chief, the appropriately named William P. Wood.
In response, the Americans, British, Dutch, and French combined forces to smash the Choshu fortified positions, and Britain retaliated for the assassination by practically leveling the town of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu.
But responsibility was the last thing Netanyahu was hoping to take, and his goal was far more than assassination.
The Congress Party regained power, however, following Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination by a Tamil suicide bomber during election campaigns in 1991.
The administration's position was that under the law of armed conflict, killing a person who posed an imminent threat to the United States would be an act of self-defense, not an assassination.