[WikiEN-l] Sep 11

Fri Jan 16 13:11:01 UTC 2004

Yes, It is a point of view title. From Al Qaeda's viewpoint they are engaged
in a defensive war against aggressive cultural, political and military
expansion of the West into Islamic affairs and into Saudi Arabia
particularly. Use of the word terrorist defines them very differently from
their self-definition.

Fred

> From: Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:29:44 -0800
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Sep 11
> 
> I'm a bit confused about what is being discussed here.  Does anyone
> actually argue that calling it a terrorist attack is somehow mistaken
> or prejudicial?
> 
> Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> 
>> How about [[9-11 Airliner Incident]]?
>> 
>> Or, for the more deliberately inclined, [[9-11 Airliner Attack]]?
>> 
>> Both of these titles sidestep the issue of whether it was a "terrorist"
>> event. The opening paragraphs of the article make it clear that the US,
>> at least, called it a "terrorist attack".
>> 
>> Ed
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