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Britain: Who and what is the Policy Exchange think tank?
By Richard Tyler - 16 January 2008
...Towards the end of last year, "Newsnight" broadcast a story casting doubts on a Policy Exchange report that claimed to have uncovered the widespread sale of extremist Islamic literature at mosques in Britain.
In "The Hijacking of British Islam," the think tank asserted that its researchers were able to purchase radical Islamic writings that were "anti-Semitic, misogynistic, separatist and homophobic," and were said to be available at about a quarter of the mosques and other Islamic organisations they visited.
When it was published in October 2007, on the eve of a state visit by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, "The Hijacking of British Islam" received front-page coverage. According to the Guardian newspaper, "Tory leader David Cameron pledged to raise the revelations with King Abdullah, because much of the literature was said to have been sourced from Saudi Arabia."
In his blog, "Newsnight" editor Peter Barron says that "We decided to look at the rest of the receipts and quickly identified five of the 25 which looked suspicious. They appeared to have been created on a home computer, rather than printed professionally as you would expect. The printed names and addresses of some of the mosques contained simple errors and two of the receipts purportedly from different mosques appeared to have been written by the same hand." http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/peter_barron
* A receipt from North London mosque's bookshop—when the mosque does not have a bookshop.
* A receipt from Euston mosque, with the address on the document being from an entirely different mosque on North Gower Street.
* Evidence from a forensic graphologist that handwriting on two separate receipts from two different mosques most likely came from the same individual.
* Forensic evidence pointing to the likelihood that writing on one receipt had been done on top of a receipt from a completely different mosque.
The "neo-cons" and Policy Exchange
Amongst the instigators of Policy Exchange was Michael Gove, author of "Celsius 7/7—how the West's policy of appeasement has provoked yet more fundamentalist terror and what has to be done now." Gove is a Tory MP, as is another of the think tank's founders, Nicholas Boles.
The chairman of Policy Exchange is Charles Moore, formerly editor of two of Britain's leading pro-Tory publications, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator magazine. He is currently working on the authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher.
The think tank's Research Director, Dean Godson, is a former chief leader writer for the Daily Telegraph, and has also functioned as Special Assistant to the Telegraph's then-owner, Conrad Black.
Godson stood as a Tory candidate in the 1997 general election, with the BBC including in his candidate's CV the fact he was "a columnist Librarian to Sir James Goldsmith, 1990-92 Research Fellow, Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, 1987-89 Special Assistant to John Lehman, Secretary of US Navy, 1983-84."
Black, who has since been sentenced to six and half years' imprisonment for fraud, is described by the Encyclopaedia of World Biography as "an outspoken right-wing intellectual, a friend of Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, and admired by British prime minister Margaret Thatcher."
Sir James Goldsmith, who died in 1997, was a billionaire, a fervent anti-communist and an opponent of the European Union, setting up the short-lived Referendum Party.
John Lehman, served as Navy Secretary under President Reagan, going on to join some of the most notorious conservative think tanks such as the Project for the New American Century and the Heritage Foundation, and is a board member of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, which at the height of the Cold War provided the US elite with ideological ammunition against the Soviet Union.
Dean Godson also has close family links with individuals with an extreme right-wing pedigree who have worked within the inner echelons of the US state.
His father, Joseph Godson, was a US Labour attaché in London in the 1950s....
His brother, Roy, served on the National Security Council and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1982 to 1988. Following the Iran/Contra affair, the Independent Counsel's Report found that he had helped Oliver North direct thousands of dollars to the Contras through the Heritage Foundation.
Roy Godson's 1995 book, Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards, offers detailed accounts of how to conduct covert operations, described as "the attempt by a government or group to influence events in another state or territory without revealing its own involvement."
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/01/thnk-j16.html

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