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Was Tariq innocent or not? SPOILER


There was a post were some said he was and some said no. Where in the movie does it say he is guilty, since I thought he was innocent.

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I think that's one of the plot points of the movie, is that we're never given the chance to find out.

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If he was innocent than what the heck was one of his mechanics doing with a grenade?!

I'm gonna die unless you kill me!

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Ask the mechanic. If one of my employees commits a crime, that shouldn't automatically condemn everyone in the business. The police would be in their rights to bring everyone in for questioning, but Tariq was brought in and tortured to death.

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I guess. Just because one person is a terrorist who works in a mechanic shop, just like any other place of business, does not mean others are likely, but it is possible.

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We dont know that. But he had the right to have a TRIAL for his crimes. Or else why bother having a legal system and just look for retribution ourselves and put a nuke in Mecca during the Ramadan.

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The point was that it didn't matter if he was guilty or not, the terrorist had already won because of how the americans were approaching the problem; i.e. torture. Like Denzel says, he doesn't know who the cells are, yet they torture and murder him anyway, so the evil aparatus has already taken a on a life of it's own. That, beside the point that he had a right to fair trail and all.

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Ya know I just don't buy the notion that the terrorists win just because we are scared or whatever. Of course we are, it's fight or flight. I hope it never comes to martial law but if it does, it does.

It's never really win or lose, just a constant flux of different states of readiness, action, etc.

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he was innocent

~ TAKE the ticket!

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He tried to bomb people and you think he is innocent?

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