Ivory Coast: 16 dead in Grand Bassam beach resort attack per BBC News but apparently they're 'militants' not 'terrorists'

It would seem that just like Gerry Downing, the BBC have trouble criticising or even identifying terrorists. 

This BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35798502 starts thus:

'Al-Qaeda-linked militants have killed at least 14 civilians and two soldiers in a gun attack on a beach resort in south-eastern Ivory Coast.

The attackers fired on beach-goers in Grand Bassam, about 40km (25 miles) from the commercial capital Abidjan.'

No BBC, these people aren't militants, they're terrorists. More accurately they're Islamists terrorists.