Freedom fighters or terrorists!

Submitted by Harrak (Canada), Jan 25, 2006 at 22:31

History says that the Algerian Liberation Front -FLN- was called a terror organization before the independence of Algeria (see the French archive of le monde and la republique. Afterwards, even french officials put flowers on the former terrorist fighters. Yasser Arafat was terrorist, after Oslo he got the Nobel prize. Begin former Israeli terrorist blow up a hotel full with British officials , and after the creation of Israel he became a Prime Minister...

Is there a third world terror and a civilized terror or they all are the same!..I think that is a hard issue to handle intelectually although politically we may..

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