Just because God knows the outcome doesn't make them any less evil. What lies in someone's heart that commits these acts is what makes them evil. The motive behind murder is typically selfishness. The person thinks of themselves rather than any consequences their actions might have. If they do think of the consequences they then relish the pain and anguish of others. This is blatant evil.
A soldier, on the other hand, commits murder in self-defense of his country. He may not want to kill someone, but for the sake of his country and his principles he will do so. That is self-sacrifice. Giving of yourself is never evil.
And before you go there, Atta and his ilk are not considered soldiers in my book. They killed innocent people unnecessarily, supposedly to go meet their 17 virgins...very selfish.....
my 2 cents...
A soldier does not commit murder.... nor does anyone employing force in defense of rights.
And this of course is my point. The person responsible for the crime... the actor... is responsible for the evil. Many in this thread, wish to make God an actor in these events. They (not I) suggest that he would ordinarily have protected us from such evil, but now chooses NOT to act.
That makes God an actor in these events.
My point is not that God is evil. My point is that those whose understanding of the nature of a loving God is so limited and so corrupted by their own human failings that they make God an actor upon the stage of this horrific evil.... they.... they are the ones who cast God as evil.