Antony Gleeson, Professor of Politics & Director of the Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, was interviewed on BBC News 24 at 13:37 13/12/10 as a 'Terrorism Expert' about Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, the Swedish suicide bomber.

AG: "It's very worrying and one wonders how many more people are out there being radicalised. I myself would like to know more too as to why Sweden was the target, whether this was because of the man's Swedish interests, whether it was because as he said Sweden didn't more robustly attack Denmark over the cartoon affair, or whether in some way this was linked to the Julian Assange Wikipedia extradition claims by Sweden on him. But it's very serious, it means there are people in the United Kingdom, in this case Luton, ready to take orders from Al Qaeda, who I am sure were behind all of this."

BBC: "You say you are sure they were the ones behind this. You do a lot of work about how people get radicalised. Just take us through the most likely routes"

AG: "Well, I think the first thing to say is many people, particularly many University teachers [laughing], deny that there is such a thing as radicalisation, and of course the new government, the new coalition government and it's civil liberties agenda, are very keen that people should not think too clearly about the implications of radicalisation. In my view radicalisation does take place, it takes place on campus. Lord Mandelson in January of this year wrote to thirty nine universtities saying that they were at special risk of radicalisation. Now whether the University of Bedfordshire was one of them it won't say but it has a track record of Jihadists in the past under it's changed, it's former, name of the University of Luton. What this is about is the exposure of impressionable young people to extremely dangerous interpretations of Islam, and this is happening on the safe space that is provided by our campuses. The government, previous governments, had several goes at trying to get universities to take this seriously but it doesn't seem to have...'

BBC: "Sure, Apart from alerting them then, briefly what is the best way forward to try to combat this"

AG: "Well I think there needs to be two things. First of all, there needs to be an inquiry into what is actually happening on our campuses, a thorough inquiry. And secondly universities need to be deterred from taking students from a part of the world we know to be volatile"

There are almost too many wild assumptions and smears in the interview to begin to challenge. For a start, Glees
falsely represents the mans claimed motivations, completely ignoring his reference to UK foriegn wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and instead speculating widly that this is somehow linked to Julian Assange. The fact Glees doesn't know the difference between WikiLeaks and Wikipedia could be forgiven as Blairite 'mispeaking' if the rest of his arguments were the least cogent, but they are not. Glees then states without any evidence that this man was controlled by Al Qaeda, something the security services have not established but which simply suits Glees agenda.

Unfortunately the BBC interviewer failed to challenge any of this nonsense or ask for supporting evidence.

Glees makes the extraordinary claim that too many people, especially university teachers, deny that radicalistation exists, without quoting examples. Glees thus portrays himself as a hero of rationality in a sea of British academic extreme Islamic irrationality.
Glees assumes radicalisation is a purely external process, rather than a personal choice based on a reaction to events, such as the Iraq war in the case of Iraqi-born Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly. The effect of seeing his country devastated by an unjust war played no part in his 'radicalisation', which Glees attributes fully to being exposed to 'extremely dangerous interpretations of Islam' that he learned at the University of Bedforshire.
Finally Glees calls for a 'thorough inquiry', in other words a witch-hunt into British universities, and ends by calling for a racial ban of all middle eastern students.

I do believe radicalisation exists, and should be thoroughly investigated, but at Buckingham University which employs such a racist and extremist professor who spreads hate in his students and via the MSM.