HELPERS OR INVADERS?
One primary characteristic of terrorism is its refusal to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants
by Walter Truett Anderson, Pacific News Service

From one point of view the bombing has been a great success, has done everything that could be asked of an act of terrorism. It has killed innocents. It has heightened discord. It has created a mood of terror. And it has made it clear that nobody – not even the people carrying out aid work on behalf of the United Nations, the organization that in more optimistic times was described as mankind's best hope for peace – will be able to stand safely above the fray.
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