Comments on: NYT: Ex-Prisoners 'Return' to Terrorism Never Charged http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/05/23/nyt-ex-prisoners-return-to-terrorism-never-charged/ The national media watch group Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:31:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: May 2009 « Questionable Content http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/05/23/nyt-ex-prisoners-return-to-terrorism-never-charged/comment-page-1/#comment-41776 May 2009 « Questionable Content Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:10:08 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=9265#comment-41776 [...] http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/05/23/nyt-ex-prisoners-return-to-terrorism-never-charged/ [...] [...] http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/05/23/nyt-ex-prisoners-return-to-terrorism-never-charged/ [...]

]]> By: Doug Latimer http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/05/23/nyt-ex-prisoners-return-to-terrorism-never-charged/comment-page-1/#comment-4147 Doug Latimer Mon, 25 May 2009 04:30:40 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=9265#comment-4147 I think we should be careful about conflating terms like "terrorist", "militant", "extremist" and "insurgent". Throwing acid in schoolgirls' face is terrorism. Suicide bombings that murder innocents are terrorist acts. Fighting against invaders and occupiers is not, is it? We shouldn't play the corpress game of labeling anyone a "terrorist" for the singular reason that they take up arms against US troops, or against any government the US supports. They may commit such acts, but killing soldiers in a war is not an act of terrorism, is it? I think we should be careful about conflating terms like "terrorist", "militant", "extremist" and "insurgent".

Throwing acid in schoolgirls' face is terrorism. Suicide bombings that murder innocents are terrorist acts.

Fighting against invaders and occupiers is not, is it?

We shouldn't play the corpress game of labeling anyone a "terrorist" for the singular reason that they take up arms against US troops, or against any government the US supports.

They may commit such acts, but killing soldiers in a war is not an act of terrorism, is it?

]]> By: leftionthenews http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/05/23/nyt-ex-prisoners-return-to-terrorism-never-charged/comment-page-1/#comment-4126 leftionthenews Sun, 24 May 2009 00:53:17 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=9265#comment-4126 Precisely the same analysis at <I>Left I on the News</I>: http://lefti.blogspot.com/2009/05/guantanamo-recidivism.html Precisely the same analysis at Left I on the News:

http://lefti.blogspot.com/2009/05/guantanamo-recidivism.html

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