Rather Unfortunate, That

In the days before 7/7, when the BBC were still worrying about a post-9/11 backlash, someone had the idea of a programme depicting ordinary Muslims coping with other people's prejudices. "Don't Panic, I'm Islamic", went out on 12th June 2005, to mixed reaction.

What must the odds be against the footage inadvertantly including alleged British jihadists?

Mohammed Hamid, 50, who called himself "Osama bin London" and ran a religious book stall in Oxford Street, London, described the 7/7 tube and bus bombings, in which 52 people died, as "not even a breakfast for me", the court heard. Many of the paintball sessions, indoctrination meetings and combat drills he organised across England were attended by a number of those who later carried out the failed 21/7 London bombings, it was said ...

A paintballing combat trip was held at the Springwood Centre in Tonbridge, Kent. The visit was even filmed by a BBC documentary crew and later broadcast in a programme entitled Don't Panic, I'm Islamic.