Dining With Terrorists - Death of the Freedom Fighter - Pt 1

In a new series Phil Rees explores the definition of what is a terrorist.

In the first episode he asks if, following 9/11 the old adage of one man's terrorists being another's freedom fighter still holds up.

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• 9/11
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[theunderone1]

@Goobster199

It's not about jealousy, it's about the U.S being hypocritical.

For example, the U.S Government says they will defend Freedom anywhere in the world, but when 800,000 people got slaughtered in Rwanda and France tried to help. Guess what the U.S did?

They threatened France with War and threatened trade agreements, I guess "protection" from the United States only works if your Country is on top of Oil.

[Osamarulx]

@ccpj1 Salam,

So much for the freedom that president himself is unable to take decisions which he think would be best for US!?! Rather he is force to do what is in the interest if Israel,Israel has such a strong lobby in US that they can do almost whatever they want......they can get u elected,fired.........poor US citizens,they r paying for israel's military expenses,fightung for isarael's interest & yet some of then r so blind that they dont realize what's happening.US is Israel's SLAVE.

[gsxxxrk5]

@chica476 - yup, what a joke!

[Afghan1Pride]

Just dont fight the US and you wont be called a terrorist.

[jungleman68]

I hope we bomb another aljazeera office. and destroy qatar

[jungleman68]

I'm american and I don't support fighting for freedom. only our national interests. I just want to be honest about it. We should have gone into afghanistan, killed 50,000 and left without creating a new government. we should have helped saddam invade kuwait and saudi arabia.

[chica476]

hahaha, "Exporting Democracy" is terrorism.

[CheeezMaster]

terrists!

[Mortenhendriksen]

there is a difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist.

A freedom fighter use some kind of uniform or fights openly their opponent, he does not attack outside his own country, he does not attack civilians directly (thereby not saying they cant get hurt but that they arent the main target) and he attacks mainly military installations.

A terrorist attack civilians, hide among other civilians and often fights in other countries, he attacks both military and civilian instalations

[fab4fan1960]

Don't worry, the USA has already a doze of its own medicine. The US trained and funded the Talibans, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda whom the praised as "mujaheedins" during the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan at the time of Pres. Najibullah. At present, they are called "terrorists" what an irony.....