"commit an act of terror" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe someone intentionally carrying out a violent or destructive act with the aim of causing fear, chaos, and harm to a specific group or society as a whole. Example: The government warned the public to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity that could potentially lead to someone committing an act of terror.
Mohamud was later instructed by a cleric, identified as an affiliate of the group by a US law enforcement official, to return to the US, with intent to commit an act of terror.
But in the 78-page appeals court decision, Judge Jon O. Newman cited Mr. Cromitie's statements to the informer and later comments that he wanted to bomb "a cop car," "hit the bridge" to New Jersey, "get a synagogue" and join a Pakistani terrorist organization, as evidence he had been disposed to commit an act of terror.
In this work we focus our attention on the problem of finding out whether someone has the intent to commit an act of terror.
We have in [16] identified a set of indicators for someone having the intent to commit an act of terror and becoming a lone wolf terrorist.
In this section we present techniques that can be used by intelligence analysts to analyze data with the aim of discovering indicators supporting that someone has intent to commit an act of terror.
Less than a year later, according to the set of records, the FBI's "primary goal" was to determine if Khan "Is influencing/did influence anyone to commit an act of terror".
The fact that two young men of Chechen origin committed an act of terror is not the same as saying Chechen terrorism has come to United States.
Thereafter the data is analyzed using techniques described in the previous section while searching for indicators for intent of committing an act of terror.
The results from the various sub-processes are then fused and can be used to assess whether someone has an increased likelihood of committing an act of terror, resulting in a list of potentially dangerous actors that might be subject to further analysis.
It is important to note that since we consider digital traces that are left on the Internet, it is only possible to detect aliases that might have an increased risk of committing an act of terror, but how the physical person behind the alias can be detected is another problem that is outside the scope of this article.
Only 20 of them have been convicted of attempting or committing an act of terror on American soil.
