In a review of 11 Afghan villages that have been targeted by U.S. airstrikes during the nine-month-long war against terrorism, reporters for The New York Times found a pattern of mistakes and faulty intelligence that killed as many as 400 civilians.
Further, as documented in his 2013 book "The Terror Factory: Inside The FBI's Manufactured War of Terrorism" investigative reporter Trever Aaronson found that of 508 defendants the U.S. government considered terrorists in prosecutions brought since 9/11, "243 had been targeted through an FBI informant, 158 had been caught in an FBI terrorism sting and 49 had encountered an agent provocateur".
"Of course we are scared, how couldn't we be?" Erdoğan vowed that Turkey would continue its fight against terrorism, telling reporters: "The differentiation that the terrorist organisation makes between civilians, soldiers and police officers is meaningless.
"We don't like to be sermoned on the issue of terrorism," he told reporters.
| Updated Prosecutors in the eastern African nation of Burundi are seeking a life sentence for 23 journalists, including one working for Radio France International, who have been charged with "participating in acts of terrorism," according to Reporters Without Borders and local journalists.
"It is a disappointment because we cannot break into partisan fighting about the war on terrorism," Gephardt told reporters.
"Very simple, this has nothing to do with race, it has to do with terrorism," Hunter Sr .told reporters.
"Based on the information and the facts as we know them, we are now investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism," Bowdich told reporters.
"We obviously condemn today's attack in Westminster, which the United Kingdom is treating as an act of terrorism," Spicer told reporters.
