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[poliphilo]

A British jihadi who was locked up in Gitmo for a couple of years blows himself up in Iraq and...

Depending on what media site you feel comfortable with....

Either the Americans were right to lock him up and if they'd been thinking straight they'd have thrown away the key.

or

a monstrous miscarrage of justice took place and it's no wonder the man became radicalised.

or

The security services let us all down and what we need is more surveillance....

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

His face is all over the British media today. He's pictured in a still from an IS propaganda video wired up to his car bomb grinning at the camera.

He had rather a nice face....

[matrixmann]

"Nice" is always something that depends on the position of that one who looks at someone.
I find, lots of people didn't ever hear about the "small child pattern" (in German it's called "Kindchenschema" and I find that term much more suiting, but it seems like there is no propper translation to it), for example, but they let themselves by blinded by it. Same with other subtle psychology. They think in simple terms and are as trusting towards others like little children, which don't ever think in "one of these adults could do anything to me that I don't want". Children can think like that as they're still children, but adults can't think so. Adults need to be wiser than that and need to be aware of the fact that you can't judge books by their covers, transmitted on a human: They can't judge somebody only by his nice or shady looks.