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I was listening to the show. I want to make sure that I did not mishear something.

Did the informant imply the intelligence by the CIA was played up by their caught Al Qeda member so that the US would attack a Muslim country? In other words that this was part of an overall plan?

Is this really newsnight I am watching?

it looks like a cross between ITV's Tonight with Trevor MacDonald, latter-day Panorama and a trailer for the new Bond movie...

What is all this 'action' footage and the underlying suspense soundtrack doing in the 'interview'?

It beggars belief how the editor of Newsnight could think this added anything to the item rather than wreck it.

Now how do I get Al-Jazeera English onto my TV?

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This witness is not credible. He "loved" the military training in Afghanistan, he "loved" the religious training which he endured for years, and he also "loved" wine, women and song when he got to London. He has a history of begging the security services for petty cash, a few hundred to a couple of thousand here and there. Its no wonder the British took no real notice of him. How come the same military and religious training turned the obviously more educated and intelligent Mohammed Ata et al into suicide bombers, and not our "spy"?

What emerges is not a large fearful Muslim enemy of which we must all be afraid. Rather, different resistance and terrorist groups from different countries whose only commonality is they happen to be Muslim. In the 1980s we witnessed many European terrorists, such as ETA, IRA and others who happened to be Christian. Has the West made a gigantic error by encouraging the disparate terror cells from the various Muslim countries to work together? The US "with us or against us" mentality has led to new perceptions of persecution by the West against Islam, which is a shame.

The only fact of real interest in the program was the revelation that the French allowed a car packed with explosives to be driven through Europe to Algeria, where it was used to kill 40 people.

Very good documentary, but not newsnight. Why wasn't this panorama?

Dear Newsnight

I'm very sorry to say this but why would this person's handlers want him to or allow him to appear on your show? and it does make me question its content a bit. What is in it for them, things are not done without a reason, what was theirs?

He said at one point that another person told the cia 80% of the truth, and put in his 20%, things he wanted them to belieive.

Our greatest weapon is the truth but those in charge seem to find it expedient to manipulate it. This is combination of lazy and sloppy thinking. Even in the last war when we were in mortal danger it was realised how much could be gained if the credibility of the 大象传媒 was to some extent protected.

We hear stories of rounded up numbers of people being under survelliance -
I am concerned that the authorities are playing fast and loose with the truth and this will ultimately create greater fear among the public who will end up not knowing what or who to believe and perhaps end up being in a state of greater fear than might otherwise be the case or is appropriate to the danger posed.

and to this end Congress needs to check if Cheney lied to them when he said he had closed down his black op that was placing bogus stories in the media.

The threat from the Islamic extremists really has to be kept in proportion. It bears no relation to the danger we faced a few decades ago from the Russians, and before that the Nazis.

It does provide however an enormous distraction from other issues for second rate politicians.

re Tonights show: you may have being had, sorry. I may be wrong, hope I am.
But if the secret people approach you and suggest running a story like this perhaps you need to ask why they are doing this?

Perhaps the story behind tonights story which Newsnight should now look into is the protection of the integrity of the media in the face of ingenious misinformation and news manipulation. Why and How the integrity of the media must be maintained.

Best wishes

Bob Goodall

The producer has been watching too many Adam Curtis documentaries, specifically the three parter "The Power of Nightmares". Even the Eno type soundtrack was a bit of a rip off. Unfortunately his threads do not link together or produce as coherent a story as Mr Curtis'. I agree with comments already that the sources for this information seem unreliable and unsubstantiated to say the least. If there are 30 UK plots out there then the security services are hardly likely to let a credible witness blab on late night TV.

Re: A Newsnight exclusive - Inside al-Qaeda: A Spy's Story.

Congratulations on yet another superb programme. The more we get to know, the more we realise just how badly we have been let down by successive Governments who have actually made the problem of Islamic extremism much worse by their actions, & more often than not, inaction.

A chilling story - one that every UK citizen currently in denial with regards to the Islamic terror threat we all face should be made to watch.

Documentary programming at its best.

Agree with others ... sure a coup for Newsnight ...

BUT THIS WAS A PANORAMA PROGRAMME...

大象传媒 Program Sales should be able to resell this package internationally easily .. soon it'll be Newsnight packages that's rebroadcast around the world... not Panorama.

Why wasn't this covered on Panorama?

Rarely have I seen a more compelling and revealing documentary - the stark contrast between the mentally, spiritually and physically driven and the gluttonous,lazy and totally blinded...the cobra circling its oblivious prey.

I found myself hanging on every word because it rang so true. I felt ashamed at the total ineptitude of our western governments and intelligence services, especially our own British spokesman, who could not even pronounce 'Al-Quaida' or 'Bin Laden' correctly. Which bottomless government pit did he come from?

Does it not show the rest of the world that, far from leading the world to enlightment and democracy, we are a fat, soft fruit ripe for the picking? If we want to be able to continue to live out our lives in relative peace, then we have got to engage in local community things, get to know our neighbour, listen and share peoples' real everyday problems, especially those of our youth. We can either wait till the cobra is ready to strike or we can learn to dance like the mongoose!!

Well Done Newsnight and very well done Gordon Carera! I think your whole team is fantastic, dont stop going where others fear to tread - lets confront our problems at grass roots and at least have competent, articulate and intelligent government, accountable to its people and no longer able to make decisions of such importance without a referendum.

We have been duped into becoming like the Romans and, like all empires, ours will fall. Even our religions are corrupt and totally disconnected from its people. They must fall too and maybe out of the ashes will rise a true phoenix of hope! Its wake up time people!!Maybe we can come back from the brink but it will take effort from each one of us. Oh and P.S. Could Jeremy Paxman not take over the world? Please?

Apologies Gordon for misspelling your surname!

Thank you beeb for the programme. Perhaps the Archbishop of York was not correct in his assessment of your org.

The programme left me wondering how these spook agencies acquired the term "Intelligence". I think they should be renamed the "Naive Agencies".

MI5: Mental Intelligence level 5

and

MI6: Mental Intelligence level 6.

CIA: Complete Intellectual Abdication.

When will we finally accept that whether we like it or not the Islamic world has engage us through our naivety in their own agenda?

Their problems were originally internal, concerning the possible move out of the 8th century through a reformation into the 20th & 21st century. This was diverted by the likes of al Qaeda and the Mujahadine simply because the Secular West is a huge threat to their male hegemony.

Its not Christianity or Judaism that scares the kufi caps off their heads its the secular liberation of women that is the deep seated fear in the minds of these radical mullahs. Their gender based power is emasculated by Western secularism and it is precisely this that sends then into these nihilistic rages.

We have to face the fact IMO that we ARE at war and it's a new kind of war, it's a global guerilla war. We have to wake up and protect ourselves. In doing this we have to forgo many of our civil liberties. It's a hard choice but the only rational one.

The purpose of hiding one's identity if they are a spy is that the people that one might be spying on may not identify who you are..am i right or not... so that you can continue being a spy.
In this documentary the so called spy reveals information about himself that easily identifies him. First he stole money from the Algerian terror organisation and then pays them back. Surely now they know who he is. He drove the car that was later used in a car bomb. Surely they can put 2 and 2 together.

He later even tells of how when he was in Afghanistan in a training camp, when the explosives wouldnt explode, and the leader asked who was going to volunteer to be a matyr, he was the one who stood up. Surely its now clear to anyone that was there who the spy was. There is a lot of other examples on information that he gave that anyone who has worked with him can identify him.
So what kind of spy is he. And who is he hiding his identity from by calling himself Nasiri. From us??? We are the last people he should be worried about.
Unless ofcourse he is no spy at all. I must say I was lookin foward to watching this program, but was very disapointed after watching it. After the program finished i was like..is that all. There is nothing that this "informer" said that i didnt know from just watching the news. They even ran the same images, showcased the same people, Abu Zubyda, Abu Qutada, Abu Hamza,same names that we are bombaded with everyday. The only new thing was that he says he knows these people and he was there in this place or the other. But most of the information that was given in this program is the same information we already know. Sorry newsnight, you can do better.much better..

Pippop - you go ahead and give up your civil liberties if you want, I'm not joining you.

Your idea that the "islamic word" is some kind of monolithic threat is neocon propaganda used to scare the gullible. I'd be interested to know how many predominantly muslim countries you've visited or lived in.

It is difficult to take newsnight seriously after that dreadful piece on HT the other day!

Plays on fear, encourages hatred, looks at an ant very closely, not the machinations of the political leadership in the world that caused the ant to move.

Worse than a waste of time. It diverts our attention from seeking the truth. Answer, why? Focus on why. (The spy says it is because of all the bombings and all the killings in the world and the reasons for it.) Dig for why. Because why is not discussed, what you get are lies.