re: #621 charles_martel

Just because he may have acted alone does not mean he is not a terrorist. Individuals inspired to execute acts of terror are just as dangerous as “networked” terrorists, simply because they are unpredictable, and are less detectable. Al Qaeda types my be detected beforehand because of cell phone chatter, bank records, previously seized evidence, etc. A lone wolf comes at us out of the blue.

I never said that is wasn’t a terrorist act.
Attempting to detonate explosives in a population center like Times Square is terroristic by definition, just as much as Eric Rudolph blowing up a satchel charge in Atlanta’s Centennial Park in 1996, or Joel Hinrichs blowing himself up in front of the University of Oklahoma football stadium in 2005.
What I said was that this guy doesn’t fit the AQ jihadist profile that guys like the underwear and shoe bombers.