Plane crashes into Tampa office tower

[Nic Name]

I think that one of the aspects of the definition of terrorism is the intention to have the act of violence felt as a threat to the security of persons other than the direct victims of the assault.

In that definition would be included any number of middle eastern terrorist organizations, as well as terrorists acting alone or in small groups: McVeigh, Bishop, Columbine's Trench Coat Mafia and copy-cat mafias, the Unibomber, the anthrax mailer and others.

The official American government rhetoric of the war on terrorism has been refined " to root out foreign terrorists with international reach" in order to narrow the war on terrorism and, by definition, exempt from the current "war" such terrorists as McVeigh, the IRA and Arafat from the definition.

Of course, other countries, allies in the war on terrorism, accepting the current Amercian government's definition of terrorism may have a different view of "foreign" and "international reach" don't they?