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Obama Assails Boston Bombing As ‘Terrorism’

Rhetoric Change

The president used the T word to describe the Boston Marathon attack.

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President Obama reversed himself on Tuesday and declared the Boston Marathon bombings to be “an act of terrorism.”

Having drawn some political flak for omitting that word in his initial reaction to the attacks on Monday, the president offered a definition that raised questions about why he had been so cautious.

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