People defend terrorism all of the time.
It first starts with empathy, like man it sucks to be a Palestinian losing your house all of the time.
Next comes those freedom fighter in Iraq are only trying to protect their property.
Then, if I was in their situation I would do the same thing.
Lastly they are right to blow up Americans, because we shouldn't be there.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Whitney0502.htmWhy America Needs to be Defeated in Iraq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fighterMedia reporting
Certain media agencies, notably the BBC and Reuters, except in attributed quotes, refuse to use the phrase "terrorist" or "freedom fighter", in favour of neutral terms such as "militant", "guerrilla", "assassin", paramilitary or militia to avoid the editorialising implicit in the use of such words.
(However the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s, when reporting on the Troubles in Northern Ireland, did refer to the Provisional Irish Republican Army as terrorists, while referring to members of loyalist armed groups such as the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force, who employed identical tactics, as "paramilitaries". They continued to use neutral terminology of other "insurgent" conflicts around the world).