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Final-Fan on 10 May 2010
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KingFate said:
Final-Fan said:
I don't know if assassination is terrorism, though.  I thought that terrorism was violence that makes people do what you want through fear (threat of more violence until they do); whereas assassination just directly destroys the target.  Unless it's like "we're going to keep assassinating people until our policy goal is met" which is back to terrorism.  If it's one specific leader you want dead, and you kill him, does it count as terrorism? 

Using any form of fear to control someone is terrorism.

That's exactly my point.  What if the objective is NOT to produce fear but to produce the death of one particular person?  Is murder terrorism?  Only if you do it to scare/intimidate people. 



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