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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (99996)	6/3/2003 1:45:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

All of them? Are you saying, it isn't terrorism against civilian populations, to target the entire male military-age population? The only "civilians" of military age in a warlike tribal society are women and cripples. The word "civilian" derives from the Latin "civis", city. Only when society has become structurally complex enough to support cities do you find enough specialization to separate the idea of soldiers from civilians.

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (99996)	6/3/2003 3:44:31 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Jacob, you're thrashing about like a gigged fish. Terrorism uses violence to intimidate people, to cause terror, aka extreme, incapacitating fear. So, by definition, if the reason you are killing people is to get rid of them, how is that terrorism? If you're systematically exterminating people, and you don't give a damn what they or anyone else thinks about it, it's not terrorism. Murder isn't nice and terrorism isn't nice but not all murder is terrorism.