{"id":664,"date":"2006-05-23T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T08:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/23\/swiss_spy_reveals_extremists_as_agents"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:14:07","slug":"swiss_spy_reveals_extremists_as_agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/23\/swiss_spy_reveals_extremists_as_agents","title":{"rendered":"Swiss spy reveals &#8220;extremists&#8221; as agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/izzymo.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/23\/positive-news\/\">Izzy Mo<\/a>, this story in the LA Times is all about a Swiss man who was recruited as a spy, infiltrated Tariq Ramadan&#39;s circle in Switzerland and eventually converted to Islam.  Among the things he revealed was that most of the &quot;extremists&quot; hanging around were in fact agents from one secret service or another, including that of Syria.  (Which raises the question of how true this is of London as well.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swiss Spy in a War of Words - Los Angeles Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-mole22may22,0,5675485.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">Swiss Spy in a War of Words &#8211; Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Izzy Mo, this story in the LA Times is all about a Swiss man who was recruited as a spy, infiltrated Tariq Ramadan&#39;s circle in Switzerland and eventually converted to Islam. Among the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-aI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42448,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/42448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}