Experimentation?

In my view the bulk of the attacks on people cannot really be described as "experimentation." They are more like plain terrorization by extremists. No experiment lasts for the duration some of the victims have been held captive. There might still be some cases of pure experimentation going on, but for the most part it could not describe what I have experienced. I don't know for sure, but this is my opinion. Maybe it started out as experimentation then escalated into something else. The main point, then, is that calling it experimentation is a mischaracterization and frequent misconception.