"It is not uncommon" for college students like Mr. Berg, who was attending the University of Oklahoma at the time, to have their computer passwords shared and distributed, Mr. Ashcroft said, adding, "We do not believe that that reflects any association with terrorist objectives or activities" by Mr. Berg.
But it warned ominously: "As water shortages become more acute beyond the next 10 years, water in shared basins will increasingly be used as leverage; the use of water as a weapon or to further terrorist objectives will become more likely beyond 10 years". Gleick predicted such conflicts would take other trajectories.
"As demonstrated by the charges unsealed today, we are seeing an increasing number of individuals -- including U.S. citizens -- who have become captivated by extremist ideology and have taken steps to carry out terrorist objectives, either at home or abroad," Holder said at a news conference.
Terrorists objective is to kill marines or kill their Lieutenant which is the host.
Of course, it's not always easy to determine what the terrorists' objectives are, but sometimes their goals are pretty clear.
It also comes after a reassessment about the terrorist capacities, objectives and international connections of Abu Sayyaf, the Philippine rebel group that has a reputation for kidnapping and beheading hostages.
In defining all opposition to Assad as "terrorists", the objective is to save the Regime.
This, however, would be a pointless exercise, as all terrorists, whose objectives always seem to include oppressing women and keeping them hidden from view, are quite obviously already homosexual to begin with.
Hamas is internationally recognised as a terrorist organisation, whose objective is not a peaceful solution to the Middle East's problems but the destruction of the state of Israel.
The government can provide every element of a terrorist plot, from target, to objective, to explosives.
