And if you don't want to be treated like a terrorist suspect, don't behave like one.

So what did he do that constituted behaving like a terrorist? In June 2001 he went on a trip to Afghanistan. A lot of people have done that in their time.

"He insists he only went there to get away from a bad circle of acquaintances in London who had led him into drug addiction and to see for himself how the Taliban's strict Islamic regime worked."(The Independent 20th). That's the kind of thing young men do from time to time.
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"But, if that means holding someone until all of the facts are established, so be it. People who embark on a course of extremism need to be made to understand that they will be called to face responsibility for their own actions, however unpleasant that may be."

I don't imagine Backwoodsman favours applying that policy to Tony Blair and the other architects of the war in Iraq, or to those suspected of colluding in torture and similar crimes...