[web]https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7930837.stm[/web]
Not once in this article is there a mention of 'terror' or 'terrorist'. Then again, they didn't target civilians, so they can't call it that. On that basis that means that no attack against the army in Iraq or Afghanistan can be called 'terrorism' either, so what's the war on terror about?
My first thought about what's happened in NI is that it's based on a personal issue, but we'll see...