To Jim Wills:

"A law should be inplace which prohibits the reading and collection of terrorist literature of any form"

So we should prosecute people for reading books, if the 'Authorities' think that the literature contradicts their world view? Let's not stop there - let's just burn all books.

IanD, London, UK

The judge gave the 4 men the benefit of the doubt. They did not kill anyone so they could not be considered terrorists according to the jugement. The definition of a terrorist was not fulfilled in this case. The judgement of the court must be accepted; however people who gather a large amount of terrorist data are certainly not behaving in a normal manner. At least the judge should have referred them to a psychiatric assessment. To be let totally free would imply that the men are totally innocent of doing anything wrong. That does not appear to be tha case as they surely are guilty of gathering terrorist information, which in iteslf should be a crime. A law should be inplace which prohibits the reading and collection of terrorist literature of any form. This law would have probably brought a conviction.

Jim Wills , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia