Reply #21: No. It's only if it has an intended coercive political purpose. Just wanting to see people dying and [View All]

[bertman]

suffering is not sufficient to make it a terrorist attack. But, if you want the dying and suffering to have the effect of turning people toward your way of thinking--or against some other way of thinking-politically, then it's terrorism.

Anyway, that's the definition I am most familiar with.

So, just being angry at the Army and taking it out on others on an Army base would not qualify. Whereas, if one killed others on an Army base to strike fear into the populace or to arouse political sympathy or hatred it would be terrorism.