Which historical terrorist organization came the closest to being the good guys?

P.I.R.A.

In it's early years the RAF had a fairly good image in the BRD. It started to decline when they went to murder people and totally got crushed once they went against civilians.

All of them.

The Committee of Public Safety

Mujahideen

Americans

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This , the Provisional Irish Republican Army-or "Provos"-began their campaign in response to Loyalist aggression against irish catholics in Northern Ireland.
While the "campaign" basically devolved into a series of revenge bombings, the Provos were seen by the British as a well trained and extremely effective guerrilla force.

Despite the best efforts of Loyalists to rewrite history, they actually killed less civilians than the british/loyalist forces and while they were absolutely and undeniably terrorists, they then were put into government.

Sinn Féin, the political wing of the provos, are now seen by countless people as the political good-guys and sensible lot of Northern Ireland, in comparison to the DUP which represents the loyalists.

Martin McGuinness, known as "Machine gun marty" was a senior in the provos during their campaign, and he then got to meet the queen and practically received a state funeral.
Gerry Kelly, another member of the IRA, was made famous for his prison escape and this is now the subject of a hit movie.

Regardless of your views on the matter, the Provisional IRA have played an absolute fucking blinder in the PR department.

Nakam, Irgun, Lehi, and the other Jewish Zionist terrorists, post WWll.

Correct.

Also correct

OP asked for terrorists, not anti-terrorist organizations

>less civilians

Only if you play fuckfuck numbers games.

nice meme

>employed by the state to fight against partisans and quell unrest
>not an anti-terrorist organization
I never claimed they were the good guys

They weren't terrorists, they were revolutionaries

Not really.
Even if we separate British Forces (RUC, Soldiers, Prison Guards, etc) and Loyalist Paramilitaries, the figures don't lie.

Civilians are considered to be those not involved with the conflict nor associated with those who ARE involved; civilians with links to any of the belligerents are often grouped under "Loyalist/Republican" as opposed to civilian.

As you can see, the Loyalists paramilitaries killed almost exclusively civilians; they were seen as a pest by the British and they caused more harm than anyone to the British moral authority and propaganda campaign then the IRA ever did.
The IRA killed a huge amount of civilians, but not as much as the Loyalists and their primary target remained to be "security forces."

Nobody is saying the Provos didn't do abhorrent and terrible things-they were a bunch of monsters to be quite honest-but the fact is that statistically the bigger enemy of the average twat was certainly the Loyalists, seeing as it was they who kickstarted the violence.

This. Missed opportunity

The Freikorps in post-WWI Germany.

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No
No terrorist organization have the sympathy of the majority of the people

Fuck those persian goons

Founding fathers

>loyalists killed more loyalists than republicans

really gets the noggin joggin

Dun think that would disqualify you from being terrorists.

Only technical qualifier is that you are a non-state entity targeting civilians to instigate terror among them.

This

Punishment killings. It's funnier on the Loyalist side since the IRA had countless reasons to splinter because of the level of retarded in their 8 gorillion causes, but the Loyalists literally had one job-kill the taigs-and they were shit at that too.

>An internal British army document examining its 37 years of deployment in Northern Ireland, describes the IRA as "a professional, dedicated, highly skilled and resilient force", while loyalist paramilitaries and other republican groups are described as "little more than a collection of gangsters".

JUST

Chouans

Anti-fa

Freedom Club

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