Terror is terror no matter what you call it
RUMOR CONTROL In the era of social media in which news is disseminated instantaneously and rumors are taken as facts it has become almost impossible for law enforcement authorities to control the flow of information (Photos: Flash90 AFP/ImageBank)
Hours after a bomb exploded Saturday night in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan injuring 29 Mayor Bill de Blasio called the blast “intentional” a word that seemingly distinguishes this from an accidental explosion.
The same day a New York Times sub-headline describing a knife assault in a Minnesota shopping mall read: “The motivation for an attack that left eight people injured was unclear but officials said that the suspect mentioned Allah and asked at least one victim if he was Muslim.”
By the time commuters headed for work on Monday morning authorities were hot on the trail of an Islamic terrorist cell based in the New York–New Jersey area that might have been culpable in the spate of homemade bombs planted in garbage bins train stations and the site of a race during the course of three harrowing days.
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