What is the definition of a terrorist versus a freedom fighter?
Stephen Jukes, global news editor for Reuters, the British wire service, has ordered his scribes not to use the word terror to refer to the Sept. 11 atrocity, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reports (second item). “We all know that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist,” Jukes writes in an internal memo. “To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack.” Opinion Journal — http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001205#reuter Jensen Comment: To me a terrorist is one who deliberately targets innocent people who are not a threat. Either this is a criminal for money (such as in the case of most kidnappings) or this is an act of desperation in an effort to demoralize the enemy. But it’s terrorism nevertheless when innocents are deliberately targeted. A freedom fighter attacks those that are a threat such as military and subversives. Sadly it is increa
