Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
The general rush to declare him the next Mandela seems a little lacking in good taste.

His later conversion to dove-wielding peacenik, hardly excuses a career of terrorism. An acknowledgement of same would be nice.
In the last two-minute segment of the programme, they did briefly try to touch on the fact that he was a terrifying psychopath, but this was soon drowned out by some ghastly hagiographer and curtailed by the end of the programme.