What are you thinking about? Part II

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Jiro said:
still not a terrorist attack. just a work-related attack.
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That's what half of the people are saying.

Although, bottom line: 28 separate terrorist attacks from the Islam took place between 2001-2010. Including Fort Hood. If excluding, that leaves 27.
 
posts from hell said:
That's what half of the people are saying.

Although, bottom line: 28 separate terrorist attacks from the Islam took place between 2001-2010. Including Fort Hood. If excluding, that leaves 27.
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what terrorist attacks?
 
posts from hell said:
List of Islamic Terror Attacks in America
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You see.. The USA Media is very controlled in what they say to you.

They spread propaganda on Cuba, how lousy the health care in Europe really is, among many other things to make you think America is all that.

That includes not rambling off about "terrorist attacks" on our soil so that way we feel "safe and sound"... The reason for that is simply so we don't get angry at our government.

ITS BS!!!!
 
posts from hell said:
You see.. The USA Media is very controlled in what they say to you.

They spread propaganda on Cuba, how lousy the health care in Europe really is, among many other things to make you think America is all that.

That includes not rambling off about "terrorist attacks" on our soil so that way we feel "safe and sound"... The reason for that is simply so we don't get angry at our government.

ITS BS!!!!
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but you already gave me a simple list of recorded incidents. None of these 28 incidents qualify as terrorist attack.
 
Jiro said:
but you already gave me a simple list of recorded incidents. None of these 28 incidents qualify as terrorist attack.
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What qualifies as a "Terrorist attack" to you anyways?

Terror:
1. intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
2. an instance or cause of intense fear or anxiety; quality of causing terror: to be a terror to evildoers.
3. any period of frightful violence or bloodshed likened to the Reign of Terror in France.
4. violence or threats of violence used for intimidation or coercion; terrorism.
5. Informal. a person or thing that is especially annoying or unpleasant.

So, using the 2nd definition, radicals are trying to inflict terror. Yes, small, but they still count.
 
posts from hell said:
What qualifies as a "Terrorist attack" to you anyways?

Terror:
1. intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
2. an instance or cause of intense fear or anxiety; quality of causing terror: to be a terror to evildoers.
3. any period of frightful violence or bloodshed likened to the Reign of Terror in France.
4. violence or threats of violence used for intimidation or coercion; terrorism.
5. Informal. a person or thing that is especially annoying or unpleasant.

So, using the 2nd definition, radicals are trying to inflict terror. Yes, small, but they still count.
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I've already posted the legal definition of terrorism in other thread. here's it again -

FEMA: Terrorism
Terrorism is the use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom.

Terrorists often use threats to:

* Create fear among the public.
* Try to convince citizens that their government is powerless to prevent terrorism.
* Get immediate publicity for their causes.

Acts of terrorism include threats of terrorism; assassinations; kidnappings; hijackings; bomb scares and bombings; cyber attacks (computer-based); and the use of chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological weapons.

High-risk targets for acts of terrorism include military and civilian government facilities, international airports, large cities, and high-profile landmarks. Terrorists might also target large public gatherings, water and food supplies, utilities, and corporate centers. Further, terrorists are capable of spreading fear by sending explosives or chemical and biological agents through the mail.
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Terrorism: The Problems of Definition
U.S. Definitions of Terrorism

Often, a uniform definition of terrorism will not even exist across the various concerned agencies of a given country. Such is the case with the United States , where the range of definitions listed below is currently applied.[4]

Department of Defense - The calculated use of unlawful violence to inculcate fear, intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.

FBI - The unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objective

State Department - Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.

Such definitions are made more equivocal by the rhetoric surrounding the so-called ‘Global War on Terrorism,’ as the current American administration describes the series of military campaigns and other initiatives that were provoked by the al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 . As with the journalistic tendencies referred to above, such a broad reading of ‘terrorism’ as this usage engenders risk rendering the term meaningless. It also lays the government open to charges that that it is undermining its own counterterrorism efforts through the use of such wide terminology in compiling the statistics attached to them.

All the American definitions above feature some element of the three inter-related factors that most attempts to arrive at a workable definition of terrorism have tended to revolve around ? namely, the terrorists’ (or persons being termed terrorists) motives, identity and methods.
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