WITH TWO GUYS IN CUSTODY, it’s still not clear that this was terrorism. Or that it wasn’t. Note the dueling quotes:

“It is frustrating that this murderer wants us to alter our lifestyle and live in fear,” Virginia Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore said.

Sounds like the very definition of terrorism to me. On the other hand, Condi Rice remarked:

“There’s no evidence to this point that this is the work of an international terrorist organization,” said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “There have been no claims of responsibility or anything like that. We are, of course, keeping open that possibility and we’re going to turn over every rock to see if it might in fact be, but there is no evidence to this point that this is internationally driven.”

Not internationally driven. Domestic terrorism? In what cause? I guess, assuming these really are the guys, that we’ll find out soon enough. With two guys in custody, though, the lone-nut theory does look kind of weak at the moment.

UPDATE: Then again, here’s a report saying that these two aren’t the guys. Stay tuned.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Do you find the idea of ‘a bunch of Sasha Volokh clones” frightening? Patrick Ruffini thinks that criminals would.