From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
   The TimesNovember 15, 2006   
      
      
   Islamist activist works at Home Office   
   By Ian Evans   
      
   Immigration official is a senior member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group Tony   
   Blair had pledged to ban   
      
      
   A SENIOR member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is working as a   
   computer technician at the Home Office, despite calls by Tony Blair for the   
   group to be banned.   
   The activist, named as Abid Javaid, is said to be an official at the   
   Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Croydon, one of the department's   
   most sensitive branches.   
      
      
   Shortly after the July 7 bombing attacks, the Prime Minister included the   
   group in a list of those he planned to proscribe, but it has not been among   
   those banned.   
   An investigation by the BBC Two programme Newsnight also claimed that the   
   group preached hatred to young men using staged videos of persecution of   
   Muslims. Newsnight said that Hizb ut-Tahrir targeted disaffected youngsters,   
   particularly the unemployed and members of gangs in South London, and   
   encouraged them to attack non-believers - a claim denied by the group's   
   spokesman, Abdul Wahid, on the programme.   
   Newsnight also highlighted the undercover work of Vigil, a monitoring group   
   campaigning against religious extremism. Glen Jenvey told the programme that   
   he had hacked into extremist websites glorifying violence and organising   
   demonstrations.   
   The Home Office refused to confirm whether Mr Javaid worked at the   
   Immigration and Nationality Directorate but added: "All Home Office civil   
   servants are expected to abide by Home Office rules governing their conduct   
   and are subject to the Civil Service Code."   
   Dr Wahid told Newsnight that allegations of violent extremism levelled   
   against the organisation were "far off the radar of what's the truth".   
   He added: "Our organisation has nothing to do with criminality, it has   
   nothing to do with community tensions."   
   David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, said that last night's claims were   
   "extraordinary". He said: "This is a shocking revelation given Tony Blair's   
   insistence that this group should be proscribed and coming after illegal   
   immigrant workers were discovered working in the Home Office.   
   "It is even more extraordinary following [the Home Secretary] John Reid's   
   assertion that his system for screening employees who work in the Home   
   Office deserves an accolade for its efficiency. If this individual has   
   access to sensitive immigration details, can ministers still claim they can   
   maintain the integrity of their ID card database?"   
   Last night on its website, the group said it would be taking legal action   
   against the BBC over the claims made on Newsnight and those on the BBC Radio   
   4 PM programme and File on 4.   
   The website, which refers to Hizb ut-Tahrir as the "Liberation Party",   
   stated: "The radicalisation of Muslims, particularly young Muslims, is the   
   product of their anger at the Government's unjust and brutal war in Iraq.   
   "To suggest that Muslim organisations such as ours, rather than the   
   Government's policies, have created anger within the Muslim community is   
   disingenuous and irresponsible. It is organisations like ours that channel   
   that anger into non-violent political activism in an attempt to repair the   
   damage caused by government policies."   
      
      
      
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