The UK home office defines terrorist acts as:
"Any act committed,or the threat of action,designed to influence a government or intimidate the public and made for the purposes of advancing a political,religious or ideological cause and that involves serious violence against a person; that may endanger another person’s life; creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public; involves serious damage to property; is designed to seriously disrupt or interfere with an electronic system."
During World War 2, some German pastors, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, were part of a plot to kill Hitler using a bomb in a briefcase. The bomb failed to kill Hitler and the plotters were killed by the Nazis. What the bomb plotters did was surely, by modern definitions, a terrorist act. Is terrorism ever justifiable?
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_040720plot.shtml
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/julyplot.html
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