He condemned it as a "pure terrorist attack" and said "there is no doubt the intention was to provoke an attack, an explosion".
He condemned it as a "pure terrorist attack," and said "there is no doubt the intention was to provoke an attack, an explosion".
They had made the speeches, led the protests, and been dismissed by many as terrorists pure and simple.
We are, however, puzzled by one thing: Why do virtually all media outlets dignify these people by calling them "militiamen?" They are terrorists, pure and simple.
But the commissioners reasoned that mox encased in heavy assemblies would not be as attractive to terrorists as pure plutonium, and so did not require the same level of security.
This challenges our tendency to think of terrorists as pure evil, unrepentant and undeserving of good will.
For Obama, it is a "terrorist organisation, pure and simple", which "we will degrade and ultimately destroy".
But to the FBI, and to the US justice system, the Duka brothers were a serious Islamic terrorist threat: pure and simple.
Obama, explaining how his administration would "degrade and ultimately destroy" Isis, described the enemy as "a terrorist organisation, pure and simple".
Obama offered prayers and condolences to Kassig's family and said their son "was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity".
Mr Sisi says the Brotherhood is a terrorist organisation pure and simple and that on his watch it will be eradicated.
