Yes, It is a point of view title. From Al Qaeda's viewpoint they are engaged in a defensive war against aggressive cultural, political and military expansion of the West into Islamic affairs and into Saudi Arabia particularly. Use of the word terrorist defines them very differently from their self-definition.
Fred
From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:29:44 -0800 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Sep 11
I'm a bit confused about what is being discussed here. Does anyone actually argue that calling it a terrorist attack is somehow mistaken or prejudicial?
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
How about [[9-11 Airliner Incident]]?
Or, for the more deliberately inclined, [[9-11 Airliner Attack]]?
Both of these titles sidestep the issue of whether it was a "terrorist" event. The opening paragraphs of the article make it clear that the US, at least, called it a "terrorist attack".
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