At an evening news briefing, Dan Senor, a spokesman for L. Paul Bremer III, the authority's administrator, described the killings as "a targeted act of terrorism".
The FBI, which is leading the investigation, has said it is probing the possibility that this was a targeted act of domestic terrorism, but a spokeswoman said on Wednesday afternoon that the agency has not ruled out other possibilities.
Rather than a social movement, the black bloc is principally a tactic that employs targeted acts of vandalism against the capitalist state and the police.
US Secretary of State John Kerry described the IS "campaign of terror" as a wake-up call: "Its grotesque targeted acts of violence show all the warning signs of genocide".
That sense of investment in calamity it could have been me is true, of course, of accidents and targeted acts of terrorism as well.
"Isis's campaign of terror against the innocent, including the Christian minority, and its grotesque targeted acts of violence show all the warning signs of genocide".
That sense of investment in calamity — it could have been me — is true, of course, of accidents and targeted acts of terrorism as well.
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, said the extremists' "campaign of terror against the innocent, including the Yazidi and Christian minorities, and its grotesque and targeted acts of violence bear all the warning signs and hallmarks of genocide.
Its "campaign of terror against the innocent, including the Yazidi and Christian minorities, and its grotesque targeted acts of violence show all the warning signs of genocide," he said.
Faith community leadership is increasingly critical as we also negotiate recent targeted acts of violence against law enforcement, such as Saturday's tragic shootings of NYPD Officers Ramos and Liu in Brooklyn.
What they cannot accept, nor will we as a system ever accept, are the intentional and deliberate killings of UN personnel, the injuries brought on by targeted acts of violence, and the continued abductions, hostage-takings, harassments and illegal detainments.
