People, it's not an either/or choice!

Vajpayee on Musharraf's book:

The former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on Tuesday said the Agra Summit of 2001 failed because Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf refused to accept terrorism as the cause of bloodshed in Jammu and Kashmir, insisting that it was a result of the people's battle for freedom.

I think it is incorrect to think that freedom fighters cannot be terrorists. Just because the phrase "freedom fighter" brings to our mind great people like Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose, it seems to get our goats when we hear terrorists referred to as freedom fighters. A terrorist is someone who kills innocent civilians in order to attain a political objective. Going by this definition, a terrorist who kills civilians belonging to an 'occupying' country in order to attain the objective of removing the occupier is very much a freedom fighter, never mind whether the quest for freedom is legitimate or not.