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COMMENTS:
Define Terrorist.
by LCD on Mon Jul 24, 06 10:51am
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And history, upon beholding the body count and lack of result, will brand our generation as "the new Neanderthals."
Non-state organizations that use tactics such as the deliberate targeting of civilians or non-combatants. This targeting is to the exclusion of military targets. The French resistance in World War 2 was not terrorism. The actions of the resistance were design to disrupt the enemy (the occupying army), not civilians. Hence, car bombs blowing up in a market place in Baghdad would be terrorism as these actions have zero legitimate military aims. They aren't collateral damage. Targeting Iraqi troops, weapons depots and having other casualties as a result would not be as these could be viewed as attempts to achieve legitimate military objectives.
Terrorism also consists of acts carried out in a dramatic way to attract publicity and create an atmosphere of alarm and fear that goes far beyond the actual victims.
"Non-state organizations" - so does this mean a country cannot commit terrorism?
"deliberate targeting of civilians" - so does this exclude targetting of civilians if it's not deliberate?
"Hence, car bombs blowing up in a market place in Baghdad would be terrorism as these actions have zero legitimate military aims"
by the definition you are trying to set, if israeli copters launch missile inside palestine to kill a hamas leader (which is a majority government party in Palestine by the way) and consequently kill 10 kids playing on the sidewalk, it's not terrorism.
that doesn't sit well with me.
by LCD on Mon Jul 24, 06 11:28am
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At the end of the day civilization will win out over the terrorist.Once the muslim world rejects terrorism as a legitmate means of protest or resistance then radical Islam with fall.
You asked for a definition. I looked up several definitions on websites dealing with counter-terrorism. This is what I came up with.
"exclude targetting of civilians if it's not deliberate" If you intentionally target civilians wouldn't it be deliberate?
The result will be the same as the war on drugs, unwinnable.
LCD, this isn't a ballot on "what is terrorism?". I defined it, so go from there.
Those who perpetrated the 9/11 attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon can never win.
So that's the US government out of the running......
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