State Department Won't Call Terrorists "Terrorists"

If the definition of the word "terrorist" has seemed somewhat flexible to many Americans in recent years, that state of befuddlement is shared by the U.S. government. The difficulties of defining a "terrorist" were on display on Capitol Hill when a high-ranking State Department official declared that the Nigerian Jihadist group Boko Haram — one of the most violent Islamist organizations in Africa — to be a "terrorist" organization, while explaining that it was not a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

webmaster@thenewamerican.com (James Heiser) 13 Jul, 2012

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Source: http://thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/12057-state-department-wont-call-terrorists-terrorists
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