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This didn't happen only in living rooms... this was among the civilian and non-involved populace. It happened outside their homes, inside restaurants, inside malls.

So, if someone sets off a bomb in a mall...to kill a terrorist... it's not a terrorist act?

And do these people really have the POWER to not let terrorist infiltrate their society?

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> So, if someone sets off a bomb in a mall...to kill a terrorist... it's not a terrorist act?

No, by definition a terrorist act is done to cause “terror”

These were assassinations with collateral damage

That's exactly it, it could have been sitting on a coffee table with kids playing around it. Terrorists bad, governments stooping down to the same level is also bad.

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