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Insurgent is a euphemism for terrorist.

AP reports: “Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq’s constitutional referendum killed more than 40 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks Tuesday, including a suicide car bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border, police said.”

These are suicide assassins.

U.S. and Iraqi officials have repeatedly warned that the insurgents would step up their attacks to undermine Saturday’s referendum, a crucial step in Iraq’s democratic transition.

In the deadliest attack in nearly two weeks, a suicide car bomb exploded at about 11 a.m. in a crowded open market in the northwestern town of Tal Afar, killing 30 Iraqis and wounding 45, said Brig. Najim Abdullah, Tal Afar’s police chief. U.S and Iraqi forces routed insurgents in a major offensive there last month.

He said all the victims appeared to be civilians since no Iraqi or U.S. forces were in the center of Tal Afar, which is 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.

And to think some people cheer them on, calling such insurgents “freedom fighters.”

We call them terrorists.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 11th, 2005 at 5:41 am and is filed under Foreign Policy, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Terrorism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.