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To: kaiser80
Terrorism is any kind of action made in order to achive some political, ideological, religious or territorial goals using fear as weapon. So as you see kidnapping for ransom is not terrorism, it's a crime. Killing a leader considered as enemy in war area it's not a terrorism.

WRONG! Where in the world you dug up this logic is beyond me. Frequently in a guerrilla war kidnapping is done to gain funds for the movement. However, many times the kidnapped will also be executed in order to prove the control of the movement as an added bonus. We have seen this done in Iraq where the victim is sometimes released for funds, but more often killed as an instrument of terror. Furthermore, in Iraq many leaders of the new Iraqi government have been killed with a goal of terrorizing the public.

For the rest you're right, no doubt. But that's not the point. I was refering to a statement that guerrilla warfare is somehow connected with terrorism. And thats in deffinition separate things.

You are dead wrong. Guerrilla warfare and terrorism are intimately linked.
61 posted on 06/03/2005 4:23:41 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
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To: GarySpFc

So the guys from AK or underground in France were terrorists?


62 posted on 06/03/2005 4:28:11 AM PDT by kaiser80
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