Buy American, your post speaks rather bluntly; I really don't have a direct reply to it.
But... One thing, which I heard this morning, got me to thinking.
I heard speculation that The Accused, should he be found Guilty, could be eligible for a reduced sentence if he "tells all that he knows."
[[All of that is just media-folks speculating, I suppose, but still.)
I really doubt that this guy "knows" much of anything that amounts to much. I really doubt that, during the course of being trained & prepared for a mission like this one, a very young Nigerian dupe is going to have the opportunity to amass very much info that would be new, or particularly useful, to us.
I barely even see him as a "terrorist." More like a trained chimp with an identity crisis, a mindless bullet fed into the chamber of a gun about which he, more likely than not, knows very little.