Westminster Journal this week was sent this email correspondence from a Hizb ut-Tahrir al Islami (HT) insider. It is an HT internal email to the "internal HT list".  In the email, HT congratulates itself on being able to raise 20,000 Bengalis to rallies in spite of the fact that a game of scrabble on the streets of over-populated Dhakar, Bangladesh would draw in more if all could see the board.

HT talks of a smear going on in Bangladesh against HT in spite of the fact that they were directly linked to violence as an organisation just last week in Bangladesh, as reported in this journal and by news agencies such as Reuters.

Should the comment "the Hizb and its work has indeed entered the political classes as well as the academic and societal atmosphere" worry you - fear not. A source in Bangladesh has confirmed to Westminster Journal that, as in all lands of operation, Hizb ut Tahrir is suffering from major defections from its executive in Bangladesh and that, if anything, is why there have been a series of recent arrests in and around the capital Dhakar.

The text of the email as written is as follows:

"Assalamu alaikum,

As you know the call for the Khilafah has been gathering pace over the last few years.  It is a work that now spans the entire globe and has struck a chord with the masses, as well as the elite and influential people.  Brothers, over several years the work in Bangladesh has been gathering pace.  The strength of the Hizb in Bangladesh is not only measured by the numbers we attract at rallies (sometimes over 20,000), but also in the ability to establish itself in the political medium.  The Hizb and its work has indeed entered the political classes as well as the academic and societal atmosphere.

THE daughter of hate cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed is a POLE DANCER, The Sun can reveal.

Busty Yasmin Fostok, 27, leads a secret life after rebelling against her fanatical Muslim dad - who rants against Western "depravity".

She has performed in London pole dancing bars and gyrated half-naked in cages at club nights.

And she admitted: "I'm willing to go topless if the venue is right."

Yasmin, a party-loving girl who quit the family home in North London four years ago, added: "I don't get on with my dad." Bakri, 50 - in Lebanon after being kicked out of Britain - told The Sun: "I am deeply shocked."

Bakri is a Muslim preacher of hate who wants all women to be covered from head to toe.

His daughter loves partying, happily poses for raunchy topless photos and is described by a lover as "very adventurous in bed".

He hailed the 9/11 terrorists as the "Magnificent 19".

His daughter says: "I don't agree with his views - I just get on with my life and that's it."

The two worlds of bile-spouting Omar Bakri Mohammed and his sexy daughter Yasmin could hardly be more different.

Today The Sun can reveal how busty Yasmin has turned her BACK on her father's fundamentalist teachings to flash her FRONT in men's clubs.

She has toured as a "podium" dancer with a troupe called Ibiza Untouched, whipping up crowds of clubbers into a frenzy.

And she has even worked a fire-eating routine into her act.

A Bangladesh court refused bail on Sunday to 10 suspected members of the Hizb ut Tahrir group, which had threatened to bomb key installations if they were not released.

Police said the group's members had said in faxed messages that they would launch bomb and grenade attacks unless the detainees were freed without delay. One fax was received at the police commissioner's office in Rajshahi on Saturday evening. Similar messages were sent to several police headquarters on September 4, the police said.

Source: Reuters

British Airways has halted all flights to Pakistan following the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, a spokesman for the airline has confirmed this morning.

"We have temporarily suspended our flight operations in Pakistan following Saturday's suicide attack," Sohail Rehman, a spokesman for British Airways, said.

The last flight from London to Islamabad, the only destination served by the airline in Pakistan, operated yesterday. It departed as rescuers picked their way through the smouldering ruins of the hotel, looking for more bodies after the huge bomb devastated the building in one of country's worst terrorist attacks.

The death toll stood this morning at 53, with 266 wounded, after a bomber blew up a lorry containing 600kg of explosive on Saturday evening. The body of Ivo Zdarek, the Czech Ambassador, was among those pulled from the rubble. Mr Zdarek, 47, moved to Islamabad only in August. Two Americans, said to be US Defence Department employees, were also killed in the blast but their identities were not revealed.

The bombing happened after dusk on Saturday, when hundreds of people were dining in several restaurants inside the hotel. Closed-circuit TV footage showed the driver of the lorry ramming into the security gates but failing to breach a second barrier.

Rehman Malik, an Interior Ministry official, said that the attacker intended to drive into the lobby of the hotel and had apparently tried to convince the guards to lower the second barrier. When they would not, he blew himself up in the lorry's cabin. The guards then tried to put out the fire in the lorry, and it was several minutes before the second, enormous blast devastated the Marriott.

Abdur Rehman, 45, who was on security duty, said: "The bomber fired several shots in the air when we tried to stop him, scaring us all away. Then after a few minutes the truck exploded with a massive blast, setting the building on fire." Mohammed Latif, who was in the hotel car park, said: "The entire area was engulfed in thick smoke and pieces of glass and debris was flying all over. People, many of them stained in blood, came rushing out from a side gate." Akbar Khan, a World Bank employee, was dining with friends at one of the hotel's restaurants when he heard a thud, and then a huge blast. "I saw people scaling 12ft walls at the back of the hotel to save their lives," Mr Khan, whose head and arms were injured, said.

Rescue teams searched the blackened building room by room but were hampered by fires still burning some areas 24 hours after the explosion. "There could be some charred bodies inside," a senior official said.

At least two Britons were among the hundreds wounded in the attack, which had the luxury hotel in the capital's high-security zone in flames for several hours, destroying the five-storey building. Both were discharged from hospital after treatment for minor injuries.