And yet he seems to still have the same ideological mindset that got him married to the Khadr extremist and got him there, talking as if the problem is the particular Haqqani network, the Taliban still being the good guys and the Americans the bad guys.

It is clear now that they are indeed Muslim converts ("pilgrims", "sacrilege",  and Coleman still wearing the headscarf) and religious extremists and ideologues, and terrorist sympathisers . No wonder they were afraid of being under US custody.