More on Fort Hood Shootings
“General Cone said that terrorism was not being ruled out, but that preliminary evidence did not suggest that the rampage had been an act of terrorism.”
If this shooting was not an act of terrorism, we need a new definition of terrorism. These mass shootings - Virginia Tech, Westroads Mall, and now Fort Hood - may not be different from the 9/11 attacks, Oklahoma City or the African Embassy bombings, but all of these acts are terrorism.
Terrorism does not equal Islamic fundamentalism extremism. Terrorism is the calculated use of violence to achieve a goal (usually a political or religious goal).
