Edited sentence: " Such misuse of the term Death Squad merely cheapens the meaning of the term in other countries, such as the Sudan, in which Death Squads do operate with results far more morbid than the inadvertent drowning of a photographer."The bombing of the boat was designed to avoid any casualty, as a small bomb first exploded to "warn" the people on the boat.As the Greenpeace team evacuated the boat, Pereira stayed inside the boat to get his camera and other pieces of equipment.French counter-intelligence was responsible for the bombing of Greenpeace's sea vessel "Rainbow Warrior", killing one Greenpeace member.The French government did try to disable/sink the vessel.The counter-intelligence members involved were never tried; however, the French secretary of defence Charles Hernu was sacked.The operators inadvertently killed one person, who had in fact remained on board to try and save his equipment.The second paragraph of this section RE: the sinking of the rainbow warrior hardly qualifies as an example of French use of a Death Squad.The second, more powerful explosion, designed to sink the boat, knocked him unconscious, which led to his drowning death.This was during the conflict between Greenpeace and France over the use of Pacific atolls for open air nuclear testing