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Old 01-25-2010, 06:17 PM   #14
richlevy
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Before 9/11, Hezbollah killed more Americans via terrorism than any other person or organization.
And how many civilians has America killed. It's true that they were all 'collateral damage', but I don't think their families want to hear that. But we are telling people in Afghanistan and Iraq to move past it.

The IRA/Sinn Fein has demobilized and is part of the executive branch of Northern Ireland.

The PLO demobilized and became the Palestinian Authority.

If we move to insurgent groups for whom terror was not a tactic or at least not a major one we have such notable leaders as:

John Adams - Sons of Liberty
Yitzhak Rabin - Palmach (not Irgun)
Fidel Castro
Nelson Mandela - African National Congress/MK

BTW, of the last four, the Sons of Liberty might have been the most violent, if you consider tar and feathering an act of terrorism.
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