Eric Demolli wrote:
I would suggest to avoid the world terrorist to qualify people. After all people change Arafat was a terrorist Menahem Begin was also a terrorist before being a respected politician.
If and when the prevailing public perception of a person changes, then we edit the article about them to reflect the change.
The 9/11 is a terrorist action OBL is responsible for several terrorist acts.
Actually I don't like that sentence: We don't know for certain (beyond a reasonable doubt) that OBL was the mastermind of 9/11. So juxtaposing '9/11 is a terrorist action' (a fact as far as the WTC part is concerned) and 'OBL is responsible for several terrorist acts' (not sure if this is known for certain), leads the reader, IMO, to surmise that OBL is a terrorist and is - by implication - responsible for the 9/11 attack. I don't think there is enough information for us to imply such a thing. We must therefore attribute POVs to their adherents.
So we could say that the U.S. Justice Department consideres OBL as the number one suspect in mastermining the 9/11 attacks and that in the West (especially in the United States) he is widely regarded as a terrorist (it would be nice to have polls on that, but I don't think they exist).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)