A house was rigged to explode on the South Side of Indianapolis.
The home was leveled, along with three other homes adjacent to it, causing the instant deaths of two persons living next door to the home that exploded. Several others were injured in the resulting blaze. The explosion also caused extensive property damage, millions of dollars worth, to no fewer than 11 other homes in the neighborhood. The owner of the exploding house was not at home, but rather was out of town at the time. Appearing at first to be accidental, officials were unable to determine the cause of the explosion for several days, but are now revealing that the home was rigged to explode, perhaps by a remote device.
Obviously, this was a terrorist attack.
But newspapers and television are not calling it that.
Instead, the Indianapolis Star and local television reports are saying that police and ATF agents are investigating the scene for clues and "persons of interest" are being questioned. There is now a crime-stoppers reward for anyone who can provide information about those involved in this crime. People are to be on the look-out for a white van that neighbors say they saw near the home prior to the explosion. Terrified neighbors have been interviewed telling their horrific stories about where they were and what they were doing when they heard and felt the boom.
So, I don't understand something here - if someone intentionally sets off an explosion indiscriminately killing whomever may be nearby, that is not regarded as terrorism?
How does that compare with the Libyan Embassy attack, in which specific victims were clearly targeted and murdered (as opposed to innocent bystanders)? That's terrorism?
Is it terrorism when the "persons of interest" are Islamic Fundamentalists and murder when they are not?