The aim of the terrorist is to cause the general populance to lose faith in the ability of the Government to protect them from random acts of violence.
By this standard, the DC Sniper is certainly a terrorist. And I hate to disagree, Peg, but women cannot be ruled out. The Weathermen, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Bader-Meinhoff Gang all had female members and some of them did in fact kill people.
I wish I had your certainty, but I don't. I have seen too much evil perpetrated by both sexes to automatically write one off.

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