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> Published on Wednesday, May 1, 2002 by
> CommonDreams.org
> What Is A Terrorist?
> by Jeff Cohen
> ter·ror·ist (ter'er-ist) n. 1. One who engages in
> acts or an act of
> terrorism.
> 2. One who leads an armed group that kills civilians
> as a means of
> political
> intimidation -- unless he terrorizes Haitians while
> on the CIA-payroll, as
>
> did 1990s death squad leader Emmanuel Constant, in
> which case the U.S.
> refuses to extradite him to Haiti, even after Sept.
> 11, 2001.
> 3. One who targets civilian airliners and ships --
> unless he blows up a
> Cuban civilian airliner, killing 73 people, and
> fires at a Polish
> freighter,
> like Orlando Bosch, in which case he is coddled and
> paroled by the Bush
> Justice Department in 1990, and his extradition is
> blocked.
> 4. One who leads a group that engages in kidnapping
> and murder -- unless
> the
> victims are Hondurans attacked by CIA-backed death
> squad Battalion 316, in
>
> which case Battalion architect Gustavo Alvarez
> becomes a Pentagon
> consultant, while the then-ambassador to Honduras
> who downplayed the
> terror,
> John Negroponte, is appointed U.S. ambassador to the
> United Nations days
> after Sept. 11.
> 5. One who uses rape and murder for political
> purposes -- unless the
> victims
> are four U.S. church women sexually assaulted and
> killed in 1980 by
> members
> of El Salvador's U.S.-backed military, in which case
> excuses and
> distortions
> pour forth from then-U.N. Ambassador Jeane
> Kirkpatrick ("these nuns were
> not
> just nuns; they were also political activists") and
> Secretary of State Al
> Haig (the nuns "may have tried to run a roadblock").
>
> 6. One who designates civilians as "soft targets" to
> be attacked in the
> cause of political transformation -- unless the
> targets are Nicaraguans
> killed by Contra guerrillas armed and directed by
> the U.S who, according
> to
> Human Rights Watch, "systematically engage in
> violent abuses.so prevalent
> that these may be said to be their principal means
> of waging war."
> 7. One who facilitates a massacre of civilians --
> unless the victims are
> 900
> Palestinians shot and hacked to death in the Sabra
> and Shatila camps by
> Lebanese Christian militia as Israeli soldiers stood
> guard, in which case
> Israel's then-Defense Minster (now Prime Minister)
> Ariel Sharon remains a
> U.S. "War on Terrorism" ally after being censured as
> indirectly
> responsible
> for the massacre by an Israeli commission of
> inquiry.
> Jeff Cohen is a media critic and author.
>
>
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Abdoulaye Keita
Rancho Cucamonga,California
U.S.A.
Telephone: 909-941-1509
Fax: 530-504-6136
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