Militants of a Terrorist Network

The US is perfecting its language skills as this excerpt illustrates:

A predawn raid by United States Special Forces that killed five people on Sunday has produced sharply conflicting accounts from the American military and local Afghan officials as to whether the dead were civilians or militants, resurrecting a sore point that has troubled the American-led war here.

The United States military said in a statement that its forces killed five militants and detained four suspects in an operation against a “terrorist network” near the Afghan-Tajikistan border in the northern province of Kunduz. Local officials said that those killed were not militants and that the raided house belonged to the mayor of the town of Imam Sahib.

Militants of a terrorist network.

Sounds like ladies of a brothel?


P.S. Ever meet a terrorist and/or militant who is not a civilian?

BBC Headline Moral Inequivalency

The headline:-

Two dead in Gaza-Israel attacks


The story:-

A young Palestinian girl has been killed by an Israeli shell in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said. The Israel army confirmed it carried out an air strike in the area, saying it targeted a group of militants.

Security forces in the Hamas-run territory say the bomb missed its target and landed near a house. [ah, so there was a target, presumably quite a legitimate one]

The attack, which also injured two women, came after Palestinian militants shelled an Israeli kibbutz, killing a civilian and wounding four others.

Did you notice that fourth sentence?

The one that includes this:

came after Palestinian militants shelled an Israeli kibbutz, killing a civilian and wounding four others