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If it targets combatants, it isn't terrorism.

If it targets others, it is. Some countries have ideas like that only non-state entities can commit terrorism, but that is nonsense. My own country's laws don't distinguish between state and non-state acts in its terrorism legislation, for example.

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Putting bombs in consumer devices and releasing them into the public is always going to be terrorism.

Only if they go boom. Or they're discovered and publicized. Otherwise there is no terror, and so not "terrorism".

Yes, distributing explosives into the public is terrorism, regardless of if they're discovered or not. I'll add that this mossad agent is also, by definition, engaging in terrorism since he's trying to cause mass fear that they've distributed explosives worldwide.

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