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  • I mean really, So, If Sen. Barack Obama is a terrorist because He was active in Chicago politics and community service and so was Ayers, Then that means that the thousands of college students Ayers has taught over the years are Terrorist also right?

    McCain Campaign Now Attacks Michelle Obama Over Ayers 2009

  • Miami want ad: 'Terrorist experience a plus' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Miami want ad: \'Terrorist experience a plus\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Convicted Cuban American terrorists living freely in Miami as freedom fighters while the U.S. government looks on. '

    Miami want ad: 'Terrorist experience a plus' 2008

  • A Guide to Militant Islam in the US (Prometheus, 2006) •American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us (The Free Press, 2002) •Terrorist: The Inside Story of the Highest-Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West (Villard Books/Random House, 1991) •The Fall of Pan Am

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • Wood tells us that the fatal flaw in Terrorist is that it shows Updike's failure "at the essential task of free indirect style."

    Updike, John 2010

  • Updike's "lyrical authorial commentary" in Terrorist is not much altered from what we find in much of his other fiction, so Wood's complaint can't really be about this novel alone.

    Updike, John 2010

  • But if Stack's manifesto begins to attract serious attention, I think it's likely the term Terrorist will be decisively applied to him in order to discredit what he wrote.

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader Jay Cables 2010

  • All of this would be an interesting though not terribly important semantic matter if not for the fact that the term Terrorist plays a central role in our political debates.

    MuslimMatters.org MuslimMatters 2010

  • All of this would be an interesting though not terribly important semantic matter if not for the fact that the term Terrorist plays a central role in our political debates.

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • But if Stack's manifesto begins to attract serious attention, I think it's likely the term Terrorist will be decisively applied to him in order to discredit what he wrote.

    Progressive Bloggers Drive-by Times 2010

  • The word "Terrorist" was first coined in reference to the French Revolutionary state.

    Naomi Wolf: "Travelling States of Emergency" Unmasked: Did British Colonial Repression Tactics Inspire the American DHS? Naomi Wolf 2011

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