` ::Here's Xinhua using the phrase ``terrorist attacks`` to describe 9/11.  Here's the Hindustan Times doing the same.  Here's the South African Globe and Mail referring to them as terror attacks.  Here's the Lebanon Daily Star referring to 9/11 as ``acts of terrorism`` that, along with other terrorist attacks, have ``smeared the image of Islam.``  The term is not solely the domain of ``mainstream western media``.        `