Vigil - Global Anti Terror Network

Following the humiliation of infiltration and exposure by VIGIL in the autumn of 2006, Hizb ut Tahrir Britain issued a shabby blog document entitled “VIGIL Exposed”. In it, they claimed VIGIL members included Glen Jenvey, Jeremy Reynalds, Jonathan Galt and Dominic Whiteman. They claimed that VIGIL was a Zionist conspiracy to paint them in a bad light.
Hizb ut Tahrir is a pipeline organisation for Islamist terror. Its former members have gone on to be suicide bombers. 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 who Muslims across the globe disown.

VIGIL hereby confirms that Dominic Whiteman is a member – indeed the European Zone Director - of VIGIL. Glen Jenvey is not a member of VIGIL, although VIGIL has worked with him in the past with an online investigation into Al Muhajiroun in the UK. Jeremy Reynalds is not a member of VIGIL and never has been. Jonathan Galt has never been in touch with VIGIL and is not a member.

VIGIL would like to make absolutely clear that – while Jenvey’s, Reynalds’ and Galt’s opinions are their own – their anti terrorist work is admirable and VIGIL is honoured to be (albeit wrongly) associated with their work. VIGIL wishes them all well and apologizes on behalf of Hizb ut Tahrir for their lies.

To understand Hizb ut Tahrir – its tiny fig-leaf now in shreds after repeated exposure – ask former members Ed Husain (author of “The Islamist”) or Shiraz Maher. Or take a look at its repeated failure to establish “the caliphate” anywhere in the world. Or meet its drug-pushers and thugs on the streets of Birmingham or South London, who know little of Islam but whose brains are full of a politics so delusional that they think that one day they will rule the world.
VIGIL has been linked with the group IC HUMINT. “IC HUMINT is the parent organization of VIGIL” has been said. This is incorrect. IC HUMINT is a stand-alone anti terrorist entity based out of the United States and the Netherlands and VIGIL is not owned by IC HUMINT, nor shares any members with IC HUMINT. The two groups have never worked together in the past.

VIGIL would like to point out that IC HUMINT does a great job and looks like a very impressive operation.
Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed’s comment that “VIGIL is an extension of MI5 and the FSB” is – unsurprisingly - incorrect. VIGIL would ask him to speak more clearly during his online lectures while we record his every word for the Lebanese authorities, as he tends to mumble. Not that he has many followers left who listen to him – no doubt they need to hear him speaking precisely, especially when he is referring to well-known numbers, which they may take as an excuse to act.
BBC Newsnight received hundreds of complaints from a co-ordinated Hizb ut Tahrir campaign for its November 14th 2006 piece, in collaboration with VIGIL, exposing Hizb ut Tahrir as being radical, bullying and a conveyor belt to violence. Of those, 34 were further investigated by regulators. Of those 34 complaints just one was upheld. This was related to a planned attack on a South Croydon synagogue, allegedly by Hizb ut Tahrir members. Regulators did not deny the existence of such a planned attack – which was investigated by the police. Instead they upheld the complaint because they deemed it wrong of BBC reporters to include this element of their report in the Newsnight piece without checking further sources. Regulators upheld all the parts of the Newsnight report related to VIGIL’s infiltration of Hizb ut Tahrir and this corroborated evidence has become particularly useful in VIGIL’s ongoing campaign to see Hizb ut Tahrir in Europe either be banned out of existence or be forced to embrace democracy (which would of course reveal that the mass appeal they claim is delusional and can never materialise).