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  • Terrorists and heroes...

    ...okay, that was a bit hyperbolic. Sorry.

    But I'm in a fairly good mood after reading this story here.

    Short version: suspected bomber escapes arrest and disappears. Police is mobilized, can't find him. Suspect approaches fellow Syrians, looking for a place to spend the night, is initially accepted, but then identified as a suspected terrorist. His hosts call the police, tie him up, and hand him over to the authorities.

    There's another article - in German, unfortunately - that details how Syrian refugees had used their social media groups to pass on the picture of the suspect among their communities - raising awareness of the alleged terrorist and thus assisting in his capture.

    So, yeah: don't let a few bad apples ruin the orchard.
    "You are who you are on your worst day, Durkon. Anything less is a comforting lie you tell yourself to numb the pain." - Evil
    "You're trying to be Lawful Good. People forget how crucial it is to keep trying, even if they screw it up now and then." - Good

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    Annnnd... now the (alleged) terrorist has hung himself in his cell. Despite supposedly being on a 24h suicide watch. After implicating his three captors as his accomplices.

    Seriously: this movie practically writes itself.
    "You are who you are on your worst day, Durkon. Anything less is a comforting lie you tell yourself to numb the pain." - Evil
    "You're trying to be Lawful Good. People forget how crucial it is to keep trying, even if they screw it up now and then." - Good

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    • #3
      Didn't they once do a Law & Order episode like this?

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      • #4
        incidental point: it's actually likely irrelevant if his captors were his accomplices to his attempted bombing, since they took an active step- restraining him and turning him not the police- to prevent the conspiracy from going ahead. That, legally, is enough to defeat a conspiracy charge. ( more or less, it is considered to be the equivalent of being fine talking about it- which isn't in and of itself criminal- but not fine actually doing it. Since they took active steps to prevent it...)

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