How do you define terrorism?

The word is contentious. One person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. Post
9-11, the word has become even more contentious as it is readily linked with
Islamic extremists. As The Folo explored in another post, some people assume
that a Muslim is behind every act of terror – guilty until proven innocent.

So when the MSN News team sat down to write about some of the worst terror
attacks that have struck the modern world, what exactly defined a terror attack
became a point of contention too.

Check out the eight attacks we named as the worst and then weigh in. What do you think of
our picks? How would you define a terrorist attack? And what makes one worse
than another?

Corina Milic