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Old 12-30-2003, 06:24 PM   #68 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Phaenx
Any use or threat of force aimed at intimidating a government or society is terrorism. Ambushes are clearly a use of force, but it's certainly not restricted to terrorists. I don't believe these people believe they can defeat our army in this fashion, so logically their aim must be to intimidate us until we leave.

No, they feel that by killing our troops they can make us withdraw. It is not intimidation or terror. By that standard any armed resistance by a significantly weaker force could be called terrorism.
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