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To: TimF who wrote (2600)	8/3/2005 6:45:27 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541961

If Al Qaeda assassinated Bush would that be terrorism as you define it? I wouldn't call that terrorism. I'd call it an assassination. Well actually the attack on the Pentagon might really be gray or even full out terrorism. I would call that terrorism, particularly in context with the others. The destruction of a plane full of people stands out over the building that the plane eventually contacted. To get past that what about an Al Qaeda attack on an FCC meeting, or for that matter the Oklahoma city bombing.,/i> I think it depends on the intent and the target. If destroying the target effectively cripples our capacity to do whatever it is the attacker wants us to stop, then I'd call it warfare. If the attacker primarily wants to scare us into something, then I'd call it terrorism. Seems to me that both of those would be terrorism.