* Bunglawussi compo watch:  Daily Express has apologised today in the high court and paid £45,000 damages to Inayat Bunglawala

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Former Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair
For some unfathomable reason, the Government has the notion that if it embraces Muslim extremists they’ll help us win the war on terror.Â
Assorted headbangers are given lavish grants and seats on ‘anti-terrorism’ committees. Ministers have got it into their heads that if we put our arms around them and cross their palms with silver, they won’t blow us up.Â
The rest of the world thinks we’re stark, staring bonkers. And not without reason. So it didn’t come as any surprise to learn that a man wanted by Interpol in connection with terrorist offences has been hired as an adviser to Scotland Yard.Â
Mohammed Ali Harrath was convicted in Tunisia of numerous criminal and terrorism offences and sentenced in his absence to 56 years in prison.Â
Interpol has him subject to a ‘red notice’ (the highest level of alert) and is urging all countries, including Britain, to arrest and deport him.Â
Yet in addition to advising the Yard on ‘best practice’ in combating terrorism, he also runs his own TV station, which pumps out Islamist propaganda to 1.6 million viewers in this country.Â

With the race to succeed Ian Blair at the Met in disarray, why not just spring Captain Hook from Belmarsh and make him commissioner.

The Real Bunglawussi
 MONDAY, 17TH DECEMBER 2007
The Guardian’s Comment is Free site is running a none-too-serious awards post, in which commenters are asked to nominate their winners.
I rarely link to the site because most of the pieces, let alone the comments, are oh-so-predictable – that is when they are not downright offensive. (I have made an exception when I have highlighted the regular anti-Semitic posts which the moderators appear not to take exception to.)Â
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