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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
That Savimbi was supposedly fighting a civil war -- or a part one, whatever you mean by that -- doesn't mean he was using government troops, as Ty read your comment.

Ty misread my comment then. I didn't say he was using government troops. I said his effourts were part of a civil war.

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Arafat was certainly better at grabbing headlines with his terror. But I doubt he was responsible for more deaths and mutilations that either Unita or the Renamo bastards that Reagan, Helms, et al gleefully supported. After all, as Spanky would apparently have it, you can't be a terrorism if you are fighting communists.

I think Arafat is probably responsible for more civilian deaths that occured outside any field of battle. UNITA and renamo killed civilians but they were also fighting a war. Arafat hijacked cruise ships that had nothing to do with anything political and were not in Israel or even the ME and then killed civilians aboard the same. Not effect direct or immediatre change within his "country" but to black mail the international community into forcing Israel to capitulate to his demands.

There is a huge difference.