When Ronald Reagan spoke of the Mujahideen (the precursors to the warlords of contemporary Afghanistan) and the Contras in Nicargua, he saw “freedom fighters” equal to the founding fathers of the USA. The New York Times, however, is unable to match Reagan in such wordplay. The best they can do, to whitewash terrorists such as Luis Posada Carriles, is to label him a “militant”:

Militant Ordered to Stand Trial – Brief – NYTimes.com

A federal appeals court ordered a Cuban militant, Luis Posada Carriles, to stand trial in El Paso on immigration fraud charges.

Immigration fraud — that sounds a lot more serious than killing 73 people by bombing their plane.

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