US air raid kills '25 terrorists'

From The Telegraph

Is it me or is there something important about these number of terrorists being killed? This is the third strike in the last few days in which the number of terrorists killed has been in the twenties. Is there some tactical reason for there being a group of terrorists in this number?

American forces stepped up their offensive against the "terrorist network" of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killing up to 25 people in an air strike on a house in Fallujah where militants were thought to be hiding.

Why did they go from being terrorists to being militants?

The American raid was the third on houses in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, this week. The strikes have claimed a total of at least 60 lives. Zarqawi admitted responsibility for a series of attacks in the "Sunni triangle" insurgent strongholds of Mosul, Baqubah, Fallujah and Ramadi on Thursday that left more than 100 Iraqis dead, many of them police officers.
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