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Thursday, November 22, 2001 - 02:00
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43 [3]
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The BBC World Service has taken a policy decision not to describe the attacks on the US as "terrorism". Mark Damazer, the BBC's deputy director of news, said the service would lose its reputation for impartiality around the world if it were seen to use such a subjective term.

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