This morning's Colorado Daily ran a picture of a Hamas training camp including the caption "Palestinian security forces from Hamas" (Out There, March 2).

Such a thing does not exist. Hamas is a recognized terrorist organization whose charter calls for Israel's destruction; they achieve this goal by using their own citizens as human shields against the Israeli military. They actively work to make their people less secure.

I doubt you would run a picture of a Taliban training camp in Afghanistan or al Qaeda in Iraq and call them security forces. Doing so here is the same mistake.

Joel M. Pratt

Boulder