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Originally Posted by Makarov
Except that the vast majority of bombs IEDs planted by the Taliban were targeting combatants, not civilians. In my mind, to label Khadr a terrorist one would have to prove that he built an IED that he knew at the time would be used to target non-combatants.
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I am not sure I agree with your statement that IEDs were targeting combatants not civilians.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-device-deaths
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But the IED – improvised explosive device – not only strikes foreign troops on ground patrols and in road convoys, it is also an indiscriminate terror weapon killing and injuring thousands of civilians.
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IEDs are a terror weapon, they are the poor mans carpet bombing.
With respect, I can't complete the mental gymnastics to get to where I don't see Omar as a being involved in a terrorist organization and by extension a terrorist (this sets aside the ####ing poor mess of a life he had prior to ending up in that organization).