June 10, 2004
German Authorities: Cologne Nail-Bombing Not Terrorism; Just Your Ordinary, Run-of-the-Mill, How-Ya-Doin' Bombing
Steven den Beste takes the Germans to task for their reflexive, knee-jerk, Madrid-like assertions that a terrorist bombing is not in fact a terrorist bombing at all (perhaps, pace Reuters, it's merely a "militant bombing").
OTOH, I remember the FBI denying that an Egyptian man who shot up an El Al ticket-counter in LA and left a message saying "Death to the Jews" could in any way be construed a "terrorist," either...
posted by Ace at 04:45 PM