Security expert upset with the release of Air India bomb-maker
Posted February 15, 2017 6:27 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Inderjit Singh Reyat – the only person ever convicted in the Air India Bombings has been released from his halfway house and can now live with his family.
One security expert from SFU thinks this release was the wrong move. Andre Gerolymatos, a member of the Canadian Advisory Council on National Security, is not convinced that Reyat is a changed man.
“He was and probably still is a terrorist. He has not done anything to warrant this release. And of course, there’s always a danger that he will go back doing what he was doing before he went to prison because when he comes out he’s going to be a hero to these people because he did not rat on them, he did not turn them into police”.
Reyat is still subject to some conditions including not having extremist propaganda, and not possessing anything that could be used to build an explosive device.
“A terrorist who has really recanted would have also provided the authorities with a list of names and participants in terrorism. He has never done it.”
He says this gives the wrong message to those who would do us harm.
“They are sending a message to every terrorist out there and even criminals that says ‘no matter what you do, eventually you will come out. You don’t really have to do much to get out. You don’t have to renounce terrorism. You don’t have to give up your friends. Just hang in there long enough and some parole board will let you go.'”
