On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
James A. Donald:
McViegh did not target innocents. Bin Laden did target innocents.
Roy M. Silvernail
I'm confused. Is Mr. Donald saying McVeigh did not surveil his target sufficiently to know that there was a day care center in the damage pattern?
Bin Laden's intent was to make anyone in America afraid - thus the use of airliners, rather than truck bombs. McViegh's intent was to make BATF afraid.
This is idiotic. You're claiming that the definition of "terrorist" is dependent not on the act, but on why the act was committed. So if I was to go out tomorrow and spread 2000 curies of Ci into the local subway system "As payback for Ruby Ridge", this would not be an act of terrorism? You're a fucking moron. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org 0xBD4A95BF "An ill wind is stalking while evil stars whir and all the gold apples go bad to the core" S. Plath, Temper of Time