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I am going to use a legal definition: 18 U.S. Code § 2340 - Definitions | LII / Legal Information Institute
You could make a potentially make a case for C, though I am not sure. However, the hijackers where not "acting under the color of law", so under 18 U.S. Code § 2340, it would not be considered torture. I am not really sure how it would matter however. The hijackers are dead, so prosecuting them is kinda wasted effort, and trying to use what they did as moral justification for what was done later would fail, and miserably.
By your argument here, drug cartels have not tortured anyone (despite the fact that I've seen video of about a dozen headless bodies hung upside down while their heads were lined up in a neat row next to a wall). Those journalists who had their heads cut off were not tortured either. Nobody any civilian does to another civilian could ever be torture, no matter what. Is that you your position?