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terrorism = (new) communism

Reader comment on item: [Beslan Atrocity:] They're Terrorists - Not Activists

Submitted by Sadia (United States), Sep 9, 2004 at 18:12

What is most glaringly absent from your article is a definition of terrorism, though I can read your politics through your writing, whom you would deem a terrorist and what you would call justified military action committed by nation states against disenfranchised citizens.

Would you point me to the american government's list of terrorist organizations for clarification? Because this list changes from time, to time, is affected by lobbying and current politics. So as a terrorist group becomes a political group and is removed from the list, another political group joins the terrorist listing. ...


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