When progressives treat with reactionaries. The British state's flirtation with radical Islamism

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Notes Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Leak shows Blair told of Iraq war terror link: Observer 28 August 2005 Revealed: MI6 plan to infiltrate extremists: Observer 4 September 2005 Radical links of UK’s ‘moderate’ Muslim group: Observer 14 August 2005 Losing the Plot: New Statesman 30 January 2006 Rendition: the cover-up: New Statesman 23 January 2006 Talking to Terrorists: New Statesman 20 February 2006 Panic in Whitehall New Statesman 5 December 2005

Chapter 1 8 9 10 11 12 13

New Statesmen, 3 July 2006 FO mandarin forecast rise of the Islamists: Observer 5 January 2003 Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History (Yale 2006) p.171 On Sadat and Muslim Brotherhood, see Felipe Fernandez Armesto, “Sadat and his Statecraft” London 1982 See Hansard: 11May 2006 and 23 May 2006 Private information

Chapter 2 14 15 16 17 18

The Times 7 February 2006 Interview with author: 12 May 2006 Hansard: 7 July 2004 The Main Inspiration of Jihad: DVD of rally obtained by Channel 4 Interview with the author: 8 May 2006

Chapter 3 19 20 21 22

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Quoted in Panic in Whitehall: New Statesman 5 December 2005 Interview with the author: 14 May 2006 Interview with the author: 14 May 2006 “Ethnicity, Politics and Transnational Islam: A Study of an International Sufi Order”, part of the Transnational Communities, Research Briefing no.9, ESRC Research Programme, p.1. Interview with the author: 10 May 2006 Interview with the author: 12 May 2006 Interview with the author: 10 May 2006 Interview with the author: 14 May 2006

Conclusion 27 28 29

Guardian 3 October 2003 Telegraph 3 October 2003 Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2005 pp. 25-34

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