Currently being used to describe Iraqi resistance fighters, be they Ba'athist or Islamist, fighting the U.S. occupation of Iraq. "Terrorist" or "bandit" was term favoured used by the Nazi's when describing resistance fighters during World War 2, and these terms were also used by the British Empire in the many wars of resistance it experienced during its history (Kenya, Malaysia, India, Ireland etc etc). The term is even more perverse when one considers that President Reagan used the term "freedom fighter" to describe the U.S.-backed Contra army in Nicaragua, who were guilty of a multitude of atrocities against civilians. At present at least, the Iraqi fighters don't appear to guilty of lining up entire villages against a wall and shooting the population, which the Contra's regularly engaged in during the 1980s.

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