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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by airstrike on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:41PM (#25841121)
Terrorism is committing violent acts targeting non-combatants for political goals
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by throwaway316943 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:08PM (#25841314)
That’s a bit loose. Terrorism aims to inspire terror, those violent acts have to be extreme and indiscriminate to do so.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by missedthecue on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:33AM (#25843568)
That seems like the loose understanding between the two. Were the 1944 USAAF bombings of Krupp Stahl works terrorism? They would be according to your understanding.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by esperent on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:25PM (#25842260)
For example, missiles from unmanned drones hitting civilian targets like schools and hospitals.

Note the statistics here [0] - of course the numbers are very fuzzy but at the worst case scenario it's 1:2.5 civilians: military targets. So for every 2.5 military targets, 1 civilian. That fits the bill for extreme and indiscriminate.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by jlawson on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:19PM (#25842539)
Hitting is not the same as targeting, so no.

Also, one needs to indicate the difference between e.g. a hospital building acting as nothing but a hospital, and one that has been evacuated of patients and used as a militant staging post.

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