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Why can’t the Associated Press call a terrorist a ‘terrorist’?

By Gregory Kane
Published October 2, 2013 4:00am ET
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Why can’t the Associated Press call a terrorist a ‘terrorist’?
Americans reportedly participated with Somalian terrorists in the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that left at least 67 people dead. (AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi) | Rukmini Callimachi

Can we all agree on at least two things?

Let’s agree to call American citizens who end up fighting for terrorist organizations “so-called Americans.” And let’s agree that terrorists should be called exactly that — terrorists.

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