Jay Currie

“Muktar urged us to be careful” La Repubblica quoted Hussain as telling his interrogators. “We didn’t want to kill, just sow terror.”....

“He doesn’t consider himself a terrorist,” Sonnessa (his lawyer, ed.) told Italian TV. Asked about what line he took when interrogated, she declined to be specific, but said: “He defended himself with extreme calm, coherence.”
bomber, sfgate

Nope, just wanting to “sow terror” does not make you a terrorist. Your bombs have to go off for that.

Bizarre. What is going to be fascinating is what we learn about the minds of people who strap on a knapsack full of explosive. Normally there is not so very much left of them…now we have four.