Gains from covert killing come with a big price tag. India can learn from Chile

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Even though the US and India have committed to insulating their relationship from the coming prosecution, strains will inevitably mount as criminal proceedings unfold. The lessons learned during the Letelier case provide a useful map to avoid the pitfalls ahead. The long-forgotten 1976 bombing—the largest terrorist attack in Washington before 9/11 that was carried out by an intimate ally—echoed in the United States capital again last week. Prosecutors alleged that an Indian intelligence officer sponsored an assassination campaign targeting ‘Khalistani’ terrorists. “Like a broken doll,” an eyewitness would recall . The orange fireball that rose from the powder-blue Chevelle sedan...