Was Tariq innocent or not? SPOILER

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RynoII — 15 years ago(October 28, 2010 02:37 PM)

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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tbeller80 — 15 years ago(October 30, 2010 03:08 AM)

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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manofsteel4455 — 15 years ago(December 28, 2010 11:25 PM)

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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tbeller80 — 15 years ago(January 06, 2011 05:06 AM)

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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RynoII — 14 years ago(April 09, 2011 12:39 PM)

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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toky-world — 14 years ago(June 22, 2011 03:23 PM)

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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filip54 — 13 years ago(April 08, 2012 03:58 AM)

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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sage2112 — 10 years ago(February 28, 2016 01:48 AM)

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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cybercrash — 9 years ago(August 13, 2016 06:35 PM)

he was innocent
~ TAKE the ticket!

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TruthXSeeker — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 08:50 PM)

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