Author: Thomas Wellicome (man-006.dialup.zetnet.co.uk)
Date: 09-18-2001 20:44
Good question, it's interesting to see that some states with more dubious human rights records (China, Russia, Israel etc) are jumping on the USA's terrorism bandwagon perhaps seeing it as a blatanty scrubbing out dissidents within their countries/ territories. Are the rebels in Chechnia (apologise for the spelling, my atlas isn't at hand)terrorists or freedom fighters. Russia would certainly see them as terrorists.
It's also worth pointing out that the USA's founding fathers themselves could be classed as terrorists within the then British Empire.