During the Peninsular War in Spain, bands of patriots retired to the mountains and fought against the French. Some joined Wellington and rendered him service.

Guerillas, later on in history, played a prominent part throughout World War II as well as in Ethiopia during the Italian invasion and in the Spanish Civil War.

In the former Soviet Union, during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, where they were generally known as partisans, these guerillas operated, despite savage reprisals, behind the advancing enemy with considerable effect.

During 1943, and later, those playing an underground important part in bringing the final overthrow of Mussolini in Italy, were called partigiani. The Nazi reprisals and the shooting of more than 300 Italians at the Aerdeatine caves in Rome is now part of the history of the Italian resistance, by the so-called partigiani.

Under the name of the Maquis, French guerillas were instrumental in the destruction of German military trains, barracks, fuel depots, etc., and cooperated with the Anglo-American forces after D-Day. In the closing stages of World War II, Greek guerillas of varying political parties waged bitter fighting against dictatorships well into the 1950s.

Iraq is now a country occupied by soldiers of different nationalities. Palestinians are daily butchered in an effort to get their land back from the Israeli usurpers. Meanwhile, while the freedom fighters mentioned above were called Maquis and partigiani, why are the Iraqis and Palestinians called terrorists?