Under the terms of Executive Order 13224 the Bush administration looks set to name Iran's Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation. After considering the defintion of terrorism as contained in PO 13224, and quoted below, I am left wondering whether the US Department of Defense or US Central Intelligence Agency will be next to be so named.
For the purpose of the Order, “terrorism” is defined to be an activity that (1) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and (2) appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping, or hostage-taking.
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