These are:

1. Following the humiliation of infiltration and exposure by VIGIL in the autumn of 2006, Hizb ut Tahrir Britain’s (since demoted) “Dr Evil” - the portly Imran Waheed - fabricated and issued a shabby blog document entitled “VIGIL Exposed”. This has been spread around the web in various forms - not that many have been so short of interesting things to do as to read it. In it, it is claimed VIGIL members included Glen Jenvey, Jeremy Reynalds, Jonathan Galt and Dominic Whiteman (apparently I was a recent recruit to VIGIL yet I was a founder member. Muppets). They claimed that VIGIL was a Zionist conspiracy to paint them in a bad light - Zionist Conspiracy? (To extreme Islamists, who believe the weather is controlled by the Pentagon, pigeon excrement hitting them is a Zionist conspiracy, as is 9/11. VIGIL included no Zionists.). These “VIGIL exposed” sites and documents are bogus and way off the mark. I have no idea who Galt is. Jeremy Reynalds is someone who knew Glen - I once did a radio interview on his New Mexico radio station and he seemed like a gracious host but he was never a member of VIGIL. Hizb ut Tahrir Britain on the other hand is a pipeline organisation for Islamist terror. Former members have gone on to be suicide bombers (Omar Sharif and Asif Hanif). It hardly needs an outside force to paint it in a bad light. It is a proscribed entity in most countries. Its members are extreme Islamists, whom the decent majority of Muslims across the globe disown.
2. My work. My role is to organise fieldwork - on a private contractual basis - for investigations into particular subjects. Some of these subjects happen to involve extreme Islamism; some do not. In the last two years these subjects have included investigations as diverse as exposing terror fundraising networks in London and Islamist hate literature stocked in Britain’s libraries. Most of the UK team I work with are Muslim. With the afore mentioned Civitas project, Music, Chess and Other Sins, there was a network of eleven individuals involved investigating Muslim Faith Schools in the UK and nine of us (to the horror of Islamists) were Muslim. Investigations followed up by well-researched reports usually results in legislation change. I am careful to advise others only on what I know - this expertise relates directly to the fieldwork I have personally spearheaded. In other words you will never find me in the media posing as a “counter terrorism expert” discussing Iraq or East Timor which are beyond my areas of expertise. On collecting hidden videos off jihadi websites Glen’s skills were second to none. I have no idea with whom he is in contact nowadays. Whatever the result of the PCC investigation I look back on the excellent work we did those years ago together with considerable pride and satisfaction, knowing it was solid and waterproof - that it caused Bakri and his rag tag benefits claimants some considerable (and merited) strife.

9)     I had never heard of sellyourstory.org until the Tims story broke. I have no Wikipedia account although one appears to have been set up without my permission in my name - Iam taking the appropriate steps to have this account terminated.

10)  Finally, this week there have been many questions by journalists and bloggers about my politics. In short, I’m a member of the Conservative party. I’ve never been a member or sympathiser of the BNP and its politics. I have worked for Tory MPs in the past. I would do so again to help the party but I’m too busy with my investigative work right now. I used to offer select counter extremism advice to one Tory MP, whilst listening in to Bakri and his friends giving him an idea of how this particular group of extremists used to scheme. When I moved onto fulltime employment with media, industry, think tanks and others, this work for the Conservatives stopped. The political work I used to engage in was all off my own bat - without any helpfrom any network, group or other individuals. I am looking forward to seeing the new Tory government take a harder line on Islamist extremism and terrorism in general next year. I am also looking forward to the eradication of some of the legislation introduced by Labour which has eroded our liberties and curtailed our freedom of speech. 

I do hope this statement sorts out all the issues.Thanks for not calling but if you can’t resist then give me a call on (0845)2626786 any time of day or night. You’re most welcome.

Dominic Whiteman is the Editor of theWestminster Journal and is not Richard Tims.

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