The circus: How British intelligence
primed both sides of the ‘terror war’
Every
time there’s a terrorist attack that makes national headlines, the same talking
heads seem to pop up like an obscene game of “whack-a-mole”. Often they appear
one after the other across the media circuit, bobbing from celebrity television
pundit to erudite newspaper outlet.
A few years ago, BBC Newsnight proudly
hosted a “debate” between Maajid Nawaz, director of counter-extremism
think-tank, the Quilliam Foundation, and Anjem Choudary, head of the banned
Islamist group formerly known as al-Muhajiroun, which has, since its
proscription, repeatedly reincarnated itself. One of its more well-known recent
incarnations was "Islam4UK".
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