Even when a terrorist is convicted of being a murderer and a terrorist, the AP can't bring themselves to call him one. The headline says it all:

Yemeni Court Sentences Militant to Death

A Yemeni court on Sunday sentenced a Muslim extremist to death for plotting the assassination of a politician and three American missionaries in December 2002.

Ali al-Jarallah was found guilty of planning the assassination of Jarallah Omar, deputy secretary-general of the Yemeni Socialist Party, as well as the murder two days later of the missionaries at a Southern Baptist missionary hospital in Jibla.

He was also convicted of creating a terror cell to assassinate local officials and foreigners, as well as buying weapons and explosives.