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Forget about the member of al Qaeda.
New hypothetical:
Situation #1:
A radical leftwing organization blows up a bank, killing 50 people.
Situation #2:
A man finds out his wife is cheating on him, and blows up the bank she works, killing her and 49 other people.
Same questions as before.
There is no rational question there.
Both are criminals. Criminal law time in a civilian court.
IF, however, you incorporate the additional "facts" into the first situation that the left-wing organization was thereby attempting to coerce the government into an action which it otherwise would not have taken, and that the killing of the victims was done to induce terror in the people to compel the action by the government, you might be on to something.