Author profile: Jack Whiteley

‘One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter’

Jack Whiteley • Feb 2 2010 • Essays

Terrorism did not begin in 2001, nor is it confined to extremists in the Middle East. Often, those who wish to point out the difficulty in defining terrorism like to refer to an old, now-famous quotation: “One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter.” Within the complex international system, the line drawn between the two can regularly become blurred or difficult to see: nonetheless, this line still exists.

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