Indigo Jo Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
From Comment is Free, Inayat Bunglawala examines the case of Hassan Butt, the self-proclaimed ex-jihadist who tells Islam-bashers what they want to hear. He notes that, on his return from Pakistan, Butt attempted to sell his story to the Daily...
Blood & Treasure (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Hassan Butt attended my son’s school here in North Manchester. I first heard of him after he left, in the days when he was planning to run a caliphate from the bedroom of his parents’ home up in Prestwich. He...
Rolled-up Trousers (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Astonishing turn of events chronicled by this Channel 4 video. It turns out that reformed terrorist Hassan Butt isn't reformed at all - because he never had the links with Al-Qaeda he claimed to have. A bit of questioning by...
Indigo Jo Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Channel 4 News has exposed the deception perpetrated by Hassan Butt, a one-time loudmouth with al-Muhajiroun, who has supposedly turned tail and written a book with Shiv Malik about his "exploits" as a militant Islamist. However, police have now released...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Inayat Bunglawala: Hassan Butt, the self-confessed al-Qaida insider, was only promoted by the Islam-bashers because he told them exactly what they wanted to hear
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Comment is free: Salil Tripathi: The court order for Shiv Malik to turn over his notes on Hassan Butt is a grave infringement of media freedom
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Salil Tripathi: The court order for Shiv Malik to turn over his notes on Hassan Butt is a grave infringement of media freedom
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
LONDON British judges told police Thursday that they must go back to court if they want to force a journalist to hand over his notes on an Islamist radical.
A panel of High Court justices told Manchester police the terms of the order against freelance reporter Shiv Malik were too broad.
Malik had gone to court to try to block the order that he hand over all his source material on Hassan...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... had gone to court to try to block the order that he hand over all his source material on Hassan Butt, the subject of Malik's upcoming book "Leaving al-Qaeda: Inside The Mind of a British Jihadist."Butt became well known after the Sept. 11 attacks as a mouthpiece for the now-banned al-Muhajiroun movement, and boasted of recruiting 200 Muslims to fight in Afghanistan for the...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... based in London, to give the police all his notes and source material for a book he was writing on Hassan Butt, a British-born Muslim who spent 10 years inside radical Islamist groups.Judges at the High Court in London said the order should be reconsidered, and set a date later this month to decide what source material it should apply to.They said the judge who issued the order at...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
THREE judges ruled today that a "production order" made under anti-terror laws against freelance writer Shiv Malik was justified in principle, but that its terms were "too wide" and a fresh hearing must be held.The order requires him to disclose all source material for a book he is writing, entitled Leaving al Qaeda: Inside The Mind Of A British Jihadist, in collaboration with Hassan Butt,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... al-Qaeda: Inside the Mind of a British Terrorist, which features interviews with terror suspect Hassan Butt.More details soon…· To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email or phone 020 7239 9857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 7278 2332. on Thursday June 19 2008. It was last updated at 11:27 on June 19 2008. | ShareEmailRecipient's email...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... al-Qaeda: Inside the Mind of a British Terrorist, which features interviews with terror suspect Hassan Butt.In handing down the written judgment, Lord Justice John Dyson, one of the three judges on the judicial review panel, said the courts needed to protect journalism as well as fight terrorism."A balance has to be struck between the protection of confidential material of journalists...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... al-Qaeda: Inside the Mind of a British Terrorist, which features interviews with terror suspect Hassan Butt.In handing down the written judgment, Lord Justice John Dyson, one of the three judges on the judicial review panel, said the courts needed to protect journalism as well as fight terrorism."A balance has to be struck between the protection of confidential material of journalists...
AMERICAN.COM (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Here’s a headline I noticed in The Daily Telegraph the other day: “Writer in legal fight to protect terror notes.” The story attached to it was of a journalist, one Shiv Malik, who had collaborated with a former terrorist named Hassan Butt on a book to be called Leaving al-Qaeda: Inside The Mind of a British Jihadist. Now the British security services were knocking on his door and demanding...
