Between Two Worlds

Daniel Pipes, in today's New York Sun, lists the euphemisms the press has been using to describe the terrorists who killed 400 people--many of them children--in Beslan, Russia.

• Activists – the Pakistan Times
• Assailants - National Public Radio
• Attackers – the Economist
• Bombers – the Guardian
• Captors – the Associated Press
• Commandos – Agence France-Presse refers to the terrorists both as "membres du commando" and "commando"
• Criminals - the Times (London)
• Extremists – United Press International
• Fighters – the Washington Post
• Group – the Australian
• Guerrillas: in a New York Post editorial
• Gunmen – Reuters
• Hostage-takers - the Los Angeles Times.
• Insurgents – in a New York Times headline
• Kidnappers – the Observer (London)
• Militants – the Chicago Tribune
• Perpetrators – the New York Times
• Radicals – the BBC
• Rebels – in a Sydney Morning Herald headline
• Separatists – the Christian Science Monitor

Read the whole thing.