How can you tell who is a radicalise Muslim who wants to kill you?

Lame answer, perhaps, but presume innocence would be a good start. And do the job properly; it is not good news for everyone else there not from a country as sophisticated as the UK, but it would have taken minutes to verify important parts of these guys stories - from police records (one of them was on community service order right the way through a year in which he was simultaneously supposed to be training with the Taleban in Afghanistan, passports, flight records, visas and so on could all have verified their story before they reached Bagram.

Treating people with some basic dignity until you have verified whether they are a threat or not is not difficult either and not a danger. It looks to me as if you need to be a sadist to make it in military intelligence. Most of what they went through was gratuitous, even if they had been the biggest threat to mankind on the planet while free.

At some points in the programme, particularly when the guards physically beat a person who was obviously autistic or mentally disturbed, I felt sick to the stomach.

However, as the programme ended the truth emerged. It was interesting to see the macho" nature of the Tipton three, one of them saying he was stronger for the experience.
In a similar way to the shoe bomber, these were people with a criminal history when immans and mullahs worked through the prison to recruit them.

We have to look at the programme in perspective. What would you do and how would you deal with the situation? How would you "punish" or "gain intelligence" from the detainees? In every system you need people with the psychology to do these things. Just because you and I viewing the programme feel sick to the stomach, that only means that we could not work at Guantanamo. We could never break these men. If the place had been really bad with torture and so forth then these people would have broken down (and I am sure many have).
For me the bottom line is this. These people born in Pakistan and other such countries moved for economic reasons to the UK in large numbers. The UK allowed them to stay and treated them as indigenous Britons with all the rights (unlike how Germans treated for example the Turks). In return these people demonstrate some silly Danish cartoons with placcards advocating beheadings and violence. In return a great or substantial percentage of them support or sympathize with terrorist activities (many young muslims in Birmingham, Tipton, East Midlands, Yorkshire and all over the UK do). They attack the UK with suicide bombers and blow up and bring down the world trade center, and so what are we to do about this phenomenon that was imported into the UK with the immigration of these people? This is a big problem. It is similar to the problem caused by the immigration of Sicilians to the USA (that problem is called the "mafia"). Immigrants bring another culture and foreign problems and some are very significant such as this extreme religion called Islam."

I'm with you Jock. What Jihadi would be rapping M and M? Loads of these kids go off the rails in their teens same as white kids. its a British ritual.

Fantastic film.

you're anonymous mate can fantasise along with the marines. he's right in a way though. How can you tell who is a radicalise Muslim who wants to kill you?

Anyway here is Martin Mubanga rapping. he seems like a nice guy too."

Peace, that was an amazing documentary its on again tomorrow on More4

Was brilliant to read your response on it, and these comments, I am a Muslim female living in the UK, was born here, bred here and jope to die here!

This docu made me feel ashamed of the American and British governments, how Balir can constantly stand up for bush shocks me!

Peace, I hope to come back and read some more from you :)

Peace