Canada made the change after a botched terrorism attack on a U.S.-bound plane.
Far from jeopardizing the American campaign against terrorism, an attack on Iraq is an essential part of it.
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On Wednesday, the students weighed Obama's remarks but were still not ready to call the Boston attack terrorism.
Mohamed Geele, 29, was convicted on Thursday of attempted murder and terrorism after his attack last year on Kurt Westergaard, 75.
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The administration's reluctance to clearly label that attack terrorism and comments blaming events initially on a response to an anti-Islamic film ignited partisan bickering and an election-year showdown with Republicans over his administration's handling of the matter.
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White House aides had discussed whether the president should label the attack as terrorism.
Politics aside, experts point out that classifying an attack as terrorism carries important legal and investigative meaning.
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When Mr. Obama spoke Monday, he didn't describe the Boston attack as terrorism, a word that, for many Americans, conjures images of foreign-born extremists inflicting mass casualties.
Mr. RANSTORP: Well, I think that the assessment by the British anti-terrorism branch before the attack was that it would be some homegrown element's at least part of the operation.
We observed that there is no reasonably foreseeable threat in space against satellites, but that many nations could impinge on individual systems by terrorism, by electronic attack, and other means.
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We must also work to protect our country against the next attack terrorism spawned right here among us.
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Israeli citizens have endured brutal acts of terrorism and constant fear of attack since the birth of their nation.
However no explosives were recovered by Belgian police, and some terrorism analysts are skeptical that an attack was imminent.
You've got to be able to protect your citizens and their right to freedom from attack: freedom from terrorism.
In addition to lessons the State Department learned about improving security at diplomatic posts, Clinton, who called the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism since Day One, suggested the administration might learn another lesson.
He has now declared the war on terrorism over, despite a terrorist attack in Britain this week, a terrorist attack in Boston last month and a terrorist attack in Libya that left a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead last year.
After the latest attack, Mr Bouteflika insisted terrorism was in retreat "despite the distressing and hurtful consequences of these operations that have targeted the Algerian people".
The European Convention specifically recognizes that you have got to be able to protect your citizens and their right to be free from attack, or free from terrorism.
" He called the attack "an act of terrorism.
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And he reiterated that Yemeni investigators believe that the attack was an orchestrated act of terrorism.
Anyone with any information about the attack should contact the Anti-Terrorism Branch on 0800 789321.
While police were still working the crime scene in London, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the attack was probably an act of terrorism.
Mohammad Aslam Khan, head of Karachi counter-terrorism cell, told the BBC that the attack was "clearly targeted" at the Bohra Ismaili Shia community, from which most of the dead and injured came.
Rather than attack Turkey for its facilitation of terrorism, and openly prepare charge sheets against the flotilla's organizers, crew and passengers for their facilitation of terrorism in breach of both Israeli domestic law and international law, Israel's information efforts were largely concentrated on irrelevancies.
It can make clear to Mr Milosevic that to attack innocent people and call it fighting terrorism is intolerable.
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The following FEMA tips list what citizens need to know about terrorism to stay informed and possibly prevent a terrorist attack.
Republicans accused the administration of an election-year cover-up of an act of terrorism and repeatedly pressed for more information about the attack.
"We have all had to become ambassadors for our religion, we have had to condemn every terrorist attack or be labeled a supporter of terrorism, " she said.
For example, the FBI declared immediately after the attack that it was not an act of terrorism.
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