What makes someone a terrorist?

Update: a U.S. solider has been detained as being responsible for this attack.

What makes one person a terrorist and the other a solider? Perhaps there are Geneva Convention issues here, but perhaps it’s just propaganda.

Attack Injures 10 U.S. Troops in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY – A grenade and gunfire attack injured 10 American soldiers at the 101st Airborne Division’s camp in Kuwait early Sunday, U.S. military officials said. Six of the troops were seriously hurt.

“From our reports it appears that a terrorist penetrated Camp Pennsylvania, one or more terrorists threw two hand grenades into a tent,” said George Heath, spokesman at Fort Campbell, Ky., home base of the 101st.

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