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The moral questions in the debate on what constitutes terrorism

  • Written by Jessica Wolfendale, Associate Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University
imageWho is a terrorist?Evan McCaffrey/Shutterstock.com

Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old man, has been accused of detonating a pipe bomb strapped to his body in a New York subway, injuring four people on the morning of Dec. 11. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the attack and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was “an attempted...

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