Terrorism is the deliberately indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians for the purpose of instilling terror

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Terrorism is the deliberately indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians for the purpose of instilling terror.

If terrorism is to have any analytical substance, its core definition must be the deliberately indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians for the purpose of instilling terror or something very nearly like it.

– How to Blow Up a Pipeline

This is Andreas Malm's definition of terrorism. Note: There are various definitions of terrorism.

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