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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (2593)8/3/2005 6:27:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541965
 
I don't consider attacks against military forces to be terrorism.

I'd probably agree with you. But many people wouldn't. That's why I put the Cole attack, and the attack on the Pentagon in the "gray area" category, although in my opinion they are in a formal sense not examples of terrorism.

Well actually the attack on the Pentagon might really be gray or even full out terrorism. It started with a hijacking of a civilian plane, and the civilians on the plane where killed by the attack. If you separate the plane and the building as two separate attacks rather then considering them as one thing than you have a terrorist act and asymmetrical surprise military attack.

The Cole attack would be a better example of an attack that is often considered a terrorist attack but isn't one by the definitions we use. It was an attack on a warship with a bomb. It was a surprise attack, I would also consider it an unjustified and despicable attack, but that doesn't make it terrorism. Saying something is not an example of terrorism doesn't mean you can't condemn it or are somehow defending it.

What about attacks on non-military government facilities? If Al Qaeda assassinated Bush would that be terrorism as you define it? He is the commander and chief. To get past that what about an Al Qaeda attack on an FCC meeting, or for that matter the Oklahoma city bombing.

Tim
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