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To: Thomas M. who wrote (77781)	2/22/2010 12:20:06 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 90947

It is impossible to use terrorist tactics against a military target. "Terrorist tactics" are tactics typically used by terrorists, both in terms of the types of actions they do, and in terms of the desire to act through terror. Military suicide bombers, not wearing uniforms, acting against unsuspecting military targets to sew terror; would be using "terrorist tactics". That's somewhat distinct from "terrorism", in that the later implies a non-combatant target. In any case the attack on the Pentagon was terrorism, since the plane that was hijacked to use in the attack was full of non-combatant civilians. And even if civilian non-combatants had not been attacked, if the attack had directly and only been against the military, then while not technically terrorism (at least by the definition I'd normally use, its not a word with one exact specific uncontested definition), it would still be, as I called it before - "a dastardly and generally unreasonable attack by a terrorist organization, and one that justified a strong response".

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