Potential terrrorist with a conscience

Could you do a link Luckygirl? I can't see any mention of it in news reports.

Was this a news report, luckygirl? Was the eye witness at risk because he saw the suicide belt in the gents?

It's quite confusing.

Or indeed...I am only quoting what the eye witness said - an eye witness who could well have been killed by this man if he had not chosen to go out and blow himself up.

We can't know.He may have been staring in the mirror to give himself courage to act, or may have been having second thoughts, or ... Or..

You think...?

They've all been brainwashed or they would not be there toting guns.

He still only knows what he actually saw. He couldn't possibly know that this man 'had the decency to turn away', or indeed whether he had been brainwashed or not.

I think this comes under the heading of Mysterious Ways.

He had no incentive or motive to be charitable in his interpretation.

He knows what he saw, of course, but not what was in the bomb-wearing man's mind - that's just his interpretation, possibly fanciful.

I can understand the temptation to cynicism - who would not in this sorry situation? But the story came from a French eyewitness whose own life was at risk and he was clear about his interpretation of what happened.

If this is what he did do. he also had to face the fact that there was no going back. If he had ditched his jacket and walked away, he would have been a marked man within the ISIL community and never safe within any neighbourhood where he was known.

My thoughts as well.

Really?
Or sheer bloody luck it went off where it did?

And until we have more details, it's hard to accept the assumption that he was 'a potential terrorist', with or without a conscience.

Perhaps it might have been wiser to put a ? at the end of the thread title.

Sorry to sound negative or sarcastic because I haven't seen the clip,read about it or heard an official report to understand how they know.

How do they know his suicide jacket didn't go off by accident whilst he was heading towards a target. Just interested.