“Up until now Washington has worried that terrorists will become hackers. Perhaps we all should worry that hackers will become terrorists.”

— Ian Bremmer

"Cyberteeth Bared," http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/opinion/23iht-edbremmer23.html?_r=1&ref=wikileaks The International Herald Tribune (December 22, 2010).

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“What the Hell is Wrong with the Washington Post? Another unrepentant, genocidal terrorist is given op-ed column space in the Washington Post… The Washington Post has truly hit bottom now. They owe the United States an apology for publishing this disgusting terrorist propaganda…”

Charles Foster Johnson (1953) American musician

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Statement from interview with New York Evening Journal, January 26, 1937. Quote from Harpal Brar's Trotskyism or Leninism? p. 625.
Context: Inside the Party, Stalin has put himself above all criticism and the State. It is impossible to displace him except by assassination. Every oppositionist becomes ipso facto a terrorist.

“I can't tell you how many terrorists we let go, we let get away, because we were worried about a woman or a child dying in the process.”

Brett Velicovich (1983)

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“we should make clear (the) difference between freedom fighters and the terrorists. They Taliban are not terrorists. They are freedom fighters. Their detention is all illegal and it is all just to please America.”

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