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What amnesty really means

December 16th, 2007

Two convicted terrorists who had been freed in an amnesty carried out the suicide bombings at UN and government buildings that killed 37 people, an Algerian security official said Thursday.

One of the bombers was a 64-year-old man in the advanced stages of cancer, while the other was a 32-year-old from a poor suburb that has produced many Islamic militants, the security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Take it on the micro level: Look at how many crimes get committed locally by assholes out on bail wearing Martha Stewart-esque security tags. Now multiply that by a zillion times the evil and add a pinch of Armageddon, and that’s what it means to give amnesty to an Islamic whackjob who’s had his brain replaced with Jihad dreams.

The government has offered amnesties to try to end a 15-year Islamic insurgency, resulting in thousands of militants turning themselves in, but sparking fierce criticism from the families of victims.