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Bridget

Posted: Sep 23 2009, 06:13 PM

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The Sun makes second correction on 'hit list' story

The Sun apologises to website Ummah.com

* Stephen Brook
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 September 2009 12.51 BST

The Sun has issued its second correction in as many weeks over its story alleging a website contained a "hit list" of top British Jews including Sir Alan Sugar.

Today the tabloid apologised to the website Ummah.com for its story, which it said was "inaccurate".

"Our story on January 7 about a 'hit list' of top British Jews on the website Ummah.com was based on claims by Glen Jenvey who last week confessed to duping several newspapers and Tory MP Patrick Mercer by fabricating stories about Islamic fundamentalism," the Sun said.

"Following Mr Jenvey's confession, we apologise to Ummah.com for the article which we now accept was inaccurate."

Ummah.com complained to the Press Complaints Commission about the story, which had portrayed it as an extremist website."

Sajid Pandore, a moderator and spokesman for Ummah.com, said: "I would like to pay tribute to two bloggers, Tim Ireland and Richard Bartholomew that made the discovery that it was Glen Jenvey who made the comments themselves and also the Press Complaints Commission for investigating."

Last week the Sun admitted that its 7 January story was wrong, but did not apologise or offer a correction to readers. The story quoted Jenvey admitting he had "deceived" the Sun and apologising to "all British Jews who we scared" and the paper.

The original 7 January story carried the headline "Terror Target Sugar" and quoted false claims by "anti-terror expert" Glen Jenvey that online Muslim forum Ummah.com was being used by extremists to target leading British Jews in revenge for Israel's invasion of Gaza.

Later that month MediaGuardian.co.uk reported claims that Jenvey was responsible for the posts on the website.

The Sun story named Sugar, the singer Amy Winehouse, the producer Mark Ronson and the Labour peer Lord Levy as among those allegedly being targeted by Islamic extremists.

News International's daily tabloid subsequently removed the story, which carried the bylines of John Coles and Mike Sullivan, from its website. The story came from the news agency South West News.

Jenvey has also appeared on BBC2's Newsnight as a terror expert commenting on internet monitoring of extremist groups.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/16/alan-sugar-terror-hitlist

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It woz the red top wot run it. And the result? Red faces all round

o Hugh Muir
o The Guardian, Wednesday 16 September 2009

And so a chapter limps to a close, and it wasn't a very pretty one. "Terror Target Sugar", read the headline in the Sun � "Extremist threat to UK Jews". The thrust was that Islamic extremists had posted an internet hitlist, with Siralan at the top. But following some sharp work in the blogosphere, particularly by the site Bloggerheads, the story was quickly exposed as rubbish. On Sunday, on 5 Live, Glen Jenvey � a "freelance terror consultant" � who was quoted in the story and had previously been quoted on Newsnight, admitted that he made the whole thing up and fed it � via a news agency � to the Sun. Yesterday the paper itself ran a story � not an apology � exposing him as a liar and emphasising through his quotes that it had been misled. So far, so reprehensible. But where does this leave the Conservative security guru Patrick Mercer MP, chairman of the parliamentary subcommittee on counter-terrorism? As 5 Live pointed out, he was foolish enough to use his gravitas to bolster Jenvey's reputation. "An extremely capable and knowledgeable analyst who needs to be listened to," he said of Jenvey two years ago. Mercer told us yesterday: "My office certainly received information from him but never worked with him. This was a damaging lie. I have had nothing more to do with Glen Jenvey." Good to hear it. As for Siralan, he is very much alive and his lawyers keep chatting to their friends at News International. "Negotiations continue," his spokesman says. A sorry tale.

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Glen Jenvey: �Don�t Call Me Omar� � Explains that Conversion to Radical Islam was Bogus

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...in May doubts about Jenvey were mentioned in passing in a Daily Mail article about anti-Muslim protests in Luton. Jenvey was greatly offended and upset by this Mail piece � he made a video threatening to kill himself outside the newspaper�s offices, and shortly afterwards he announced his conversion to Islam and a new association with the Islamic extremists around Anjem Choudary. His new Islamic identity was remarkably crude, and he railed bitterly against Jews and Israelis. He explained that he had created a story about British Jews being targeted by Muslim extremists in revenge for military action in Gaza (the story which brought him to Tim�s attention) because he wanted British Jews to share the fear felt by Palestinians; this was a somewhat problematic explanation, as this was several months before his conversion to Islam and he was on record as being very pro-Israeli.

And now � not entirely unexpectedly � he�s switched back again. In a video which he posted to Liveleak and then pulled (but which can still be seen in Google cache), he explains that the whole business was an exercise in infiltration, as a result of which he now knows more about Muslim extremists in Wiltshire and Hampshire, the area of the UK in which he lives (although he also met lots of moderates). He also claims he had to undertake this subterfuge because the security services are �clueless� and �institutionally racist�. And now � not entirely unexpectedly � he�s switched back again. In a video which he posted to Liveleak and then pulled (but which can still be seen in Google cache), he explains that the whole business was an exercise in infiltration, as a result of which he now knows more about Muslim extremists in Wiltshire and Hampshire, the area of the UK in which he lives (although he also met lots of moderates). He also claims he had to undertake this subterfuge because the security services are �clueless� and �institutionally racist�. He kisses a crucifix, mentions the fact that he is gay, and tells us that during his undercover period he would read the Koran while drinking beer and speak to Omar Bakri on the phone while eating a bacon sandwich and drinking wine. He also says he has been working for �an MP and a diplomat� � presumably a reference to Patrick Mercer MP, who has lately been keen to distance himself from his past association with Jenvey.

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In a video which he posted to Liveleak and then pulled (but which can still be seen in Google cache), he explains that the whole business was an exercise� in infiltration, as a result of which he now knows more about Muslim extremists in Wiltshire and Hampshire, the area of the UK in which he lives (although he also met lots of moderates). He also claims he had to undertake this subterfuge because the security services are �clueless� and �institutionally racist�. And now � not entirely unexpectedly � he�s switched back again. In a video which he posted to Liveleak and then pulled (but which can still be seen in Google cache), he explains that the whole business was an exercise� in infiltration, as a result of which he now knows more about Muslim extremists in Wiltshire and Hampshire, the area of the UK in which he lives (although he also met lots of moderates). He also claims he had to undertake this subterfuge because the security services are �clueless� and �institutionally racist�. He kisses a crucifix, mentions the fact that he is gay, and tells us that during his undercover period he would read the Koran while drinking beer and speak to Omar Bakri on the phone while eating a bacon sandwich and drinking wine.� He also says he has been working for �an MP and a diplomat� � presumably a reference to Patrick Mercer MP, who has lately been keen to distance himself from his past association with Jenvey.

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Omar Jenvey confesses to being a fake Muslim

Bridget

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November 5, 2009

Glen Jenvey arrested? Patrick Mercer: "No comment"

The following is a transcript from a telephone interview conducted recently with Patrick Mercer:

Tim Ireland: Do you have any comment on your Parliamentary Question of February 2009, made in response to evidence produced by Glen Jenvey?

Patrick Mercer: I'm afraid I have no comment.

Tim Ireland: Do you have any comment on your staff using that same Parliamentary Question as collateral when peddling an 'exclusive' story to the Times and Dennis Rice Media?

Patrick Mercer: I'm afraid I have no comment.

Tim Ireland: Do you have any comment on reports that Glen Jenvey was recently arrested, and had his computers seized?

Patrick Mercer: I'm afraid I have no comment.

Tim Ireland: Are you in any way concerned about what police might find on those computers?

Patrick Mercer: I'm afraid I have no comment.

Tim Ireland: When did you last hear from Dominic Wightman?

Patrick Mercer: I'm afraid I have no comment.

Tim Ireland: OK, thank you. This re....*

(line goes dead)

1. At present we only have Glen Jenvey's claim that he was arrested to go on, and no specifics on what charges there are (if any). But if he was arrested, it would be fair to speculate that it relates to some of what Glen Jenvey published around June/July/August of this year and how that changed in the eyes of the law when he later confessed that he wasn't really a Muslim when he published it.

2. Neither the Times nor Dennis Rice Media saw fit to run with the story referenced above (even though - gawrsh! - it was fleshed out with a genuine Parliamentary Question).

3. This transcript is 100% accurate but, personally, I think that every answer could be improved with a little punctuation:

Patrick Mercer: I'm afraid. I have no comment.

Please be careful of your phrasing if mentioning Jenvey's claims of an arrest, and please remember that the story here is Patrick Mercer being taken in by not one but two 'amateur terrors experts' (more) during his tenure as Shadow Minister for Homeland Security, and then Chairman of the House of Commons Sub-Committee on Counter-Terrorism.

Inexplicably, he still holds the latter position, and seeks to shape the government's response to extremism and terrorism, when in my view he lacks sufficient wisdom or judgement to shape their response to party games and balloon animals.

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