We dont know how many people have left britain to fight with so called Islamic State over the last few years. There is talk of 850 of whom half may have already come back, that would leave hundreds still out there. But if we dont really know how many, we cant know all their names. And with isis now pushed out of its own self declared capital city, raqqa, we dont know where the remaining ones are, or what they are currently planning to do. The only thing we do know is that we need some approach to dealing with them if they return. One idea would be to ease them back into mainstream society. But one government minister, rory stewart, said yesterday that in most cases, theyll need to be killed. Hes clarified that he meant that they would fight to the death, not that we should illegally assassinate them. But mr stewart has prompted quite a debate. Our diplomatic editor mark urban has been looking at it. In the rubble of the self proclaimed caliphate live the corpses of many british jihadis
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