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Osama the Freedom Fighter

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Osama bin Laden and his comrades were hailed as freedom fighters in the 1980s by the American government at a time when politicians like Dick Cheney considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist.
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the label of who is and isn’t a terrorist is still fuzzy. Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat was a terrorist, and now isn’t. Jerry Adams of Ireland’s Sinn Fein and Nelson Mandela of South Africa were terrorists, now they’re statesmen. At least three Israeli Prime Ministers were either self-avowed terrorists or could be legitimately accused of engaging in terrorist activities.

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