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Executing Teachers Makes You a “Fighter”?

It’s a grim story: “5 Teachers Slain…Sought Out by Fighters.” From Baghdad, Sabrina Tavernise reported very un-emotionally: “Armed men dressed as police officers burst into a primary school in a town south of Baghdad on Monday, rounded up five Shiite teachers and their driver, marched them to an empty classroom and killed them, a police official said.” She also referred to them as “gunmen.” So how does this act make them “Fighters” to the headline writers? Shooting down unarmed teachers? Wouldn’t it suggest a better word would be “terrorists”? Or at least “assassins”? (The subhead does not appear in the online version.)

Source: Times Watch

Gunfighters? They make it sound like the gunfight at OK Corral. These were teachers. They were murdered. Killed. Shot by terrorists. Got it?