Let us not overtly carried away here. You have to understand the turbulent nature of the time. When security forces are doing what they were supposed to be doing, it would have been easy for the the youth to get carried away.He tried to reform himself by surrendering.
We do not know the entire truth, but as a country we had a moral duty to make sure that Afzal got a fair trial. He should have got atleast the lawyers of his choice to represent him. While we could do it for Kasab, why could we not do it for Guru.
It is said that Geelani led the police to Guru. Isnt it a contradiction that Geelani himself was acquitted.