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Post by confuzzled dude Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:29 am

The string of bombings in Austin this month revived an ongoing debate over how the government investigates and prosecutes terrorism, revealing a split between the way many Americans think about terror and the way U.S. law defines it.

After package bombs killed two people and injured several others, police cornered the suspect Wednesday morning on the side of a highway, where authorities say he detonated a homemade bomb as officers closed in. Authorities on Friday ruled his death a suicide caused by “multiple penetrating shrapnel injuries,” according to Dain Johnson, a justice of the peace in Williamson County, Tex., where the bomber died.

After his death there was widespread relief, but law enforcement officials also found themselves dealing with a familiar question: Why don’t they call this terrorism?

Law enforcement officials have repeatedly said the Austin bomber terrorized the community. But at the same time, they made clear they have not found indicators that he was inspired by any foreign terrorist groups. Nor, they said, did his self-made confession video indicate he was motivated by hate for a particular race or group.

“Some people will say it’s terrorism, because it caused terror in that community. I don’t look at it as terrorism, because there’s no organization behind it,’’ said Malcolm Brady, a former assistant director for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “This is a single individual that was more than likely mentally unstable about something, so he blew things up. . . . He’s not a terrorist.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/austin-bombings-renew-debate-what-crimes-do-we-call-terrorism/2018/03/23/61a9cf82-2ed5-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html?utm_term=.860f869d3270

Aha! a familiar quote. Now all Austinites can sleep peacefully.

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