"Even in the event of a conviction, we should be doing whatever we can to reintegrate these [people] into society - or more likely, helping them to integrate - rather than risking their continued radicalisation and the possibility that they may radicalise others".
Lady Warsi, who resigned last summer over the government's "morally indefensible" policy on Gaza, said it was becoming more apparent that people were being radicalised in their bedrooms rather than in places of worship.
All of the information that has been released about them so far indicates that the main emphasis will be on preventing the spread of extremism rather than rehabilitating those who have already been radicalised.
Mansfield is an interesting example of someone who has been radicalised by experience and has moved leftwards, rather than rightwards, through life.
The father of the Muthana brothers, Ahmed Muthana, suggested on Monday that young Muslim men were being radicalised at "pop-up" meetings in Cardiff rather than at any mosque or via internet videos.
Individuals now mostly radicalise horizontally with their peers, rather than vertically through institutional leaders or organisational hierarchies: in small groups of friends – from the same neighbourhood or social network – or even as loners who find common cause with a virtual internet community.
"Legislation should encourage citizens to return and face due process rather than force them to stay in a crisis zone and further radicalise themselves or others in the UK through their online activities," said Jonathan Russell, of Quilliam.
At his trial he spoke clearly and coherently about how he became radicalised because he perceived that the British and Americans were murdering his people, rather than liberating a country from a dictator.
The introduction since 2000 of partial sharia law in 12 northern states out of the country's total of 36 is now widely considered a vote-winner rather than a genuine desire for justice.Mr Abdulmutallab, who hails from a rich family, was educated and probably radicalised abroad.
He has effectively self-radicalised himself and he has done that through the internet through his own devices rather than working with others".DS Barraclough added: "McGee had in his possession a viable improvised device and the material and knowledge of how to make it.
