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It doesn't make sense. They capture him, scan him, find out he's basically one of them, call the entire War off because of him, then threaten to kill him.
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They didn't call the entire war off because of him. They called the war off because through him they discovered what they believed was proof <font class="small">Spoiler:</font>
<table bgcolor="#000000" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"><tr bgcolor="#000000"><td bgcolor="#000000" id="spoiler"><font color="#000000">that Minbari souls were being reborn in Human bodies. The triluminary glowed in Sinclair's presence, something it had previously only done in the presence of certain Minbari, who were believed to posses reincarnated "great souls" When it glowed for Sinclair, so Lennier tells us in S2, they captured other Humans and tested them with the triluminary. It also glowed for them. Therefore they were sure that some Humans had Minbari souls, and since Valen's first law was that Minbari must never kill Minbari, they had no choice but to end the war.</font></td></tr></table>
Opinion about Sinclair and his individual importance was divided on the Grey Council. Some thought him very important, others less so. They were unanimous, however, that neither Human nor Minbari society would benefit from learning what they had learned. So they erased his memory. (They didn't have to do this with the other Human pilots they tested. They hadn't been awake or interrogated.) So they agreed (probably with some reservations) that if Sinclair ever remembered what happened to him on the Minbari cruiser, they would kill him. When opinion about his importance shifted, this decision was almost certainly rescinded. Certainly it doesn't seem to have been in effect by the time he became Ambassador to Minbar.
Regards,
Joe