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No.

If I rob a bank it is not a terrorist act. If I use the money to make a dirty bomb and commit a terrorist act with said bomb, that's a terrorist act, not the initial robbery.



It's a terrorist act to threaten movie theaters with 9/11 style attacks for showing a movie and this is exactly what the hackers are doing.


A terrorist threat and a terrorist act are easily distinguished:

"Did shit blow up? Then It was an act."

Threats are not acts, despite what any legal framework may say.




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