Glen Jenvey

Who is Glen Jenvey?

Glen Jenvey, born 9 April 1965, is a British journalist who states that he has devoted much of his time to infiltrating, undermining and exposing radical Islamic groups. He also states that he has infiltrated the Tamil Tigers, working for them in London.

Jenvey says he used the internet to infiltrate terrorist organizations, and to have developed a relationship with Abu Hamza al-Masri through these means. Recorded film footage with James Ujaama was, he claims, obtained through similar means. Jenvey said that his tapes, in which Hamza called for Jihad, were responsible for Hamza's arrest and trial. In the event, Hamza was convicted only of charges related to possession of the Encyclopedia of Afghan Jihad. Recently, it has been reported that Jenvey has converted to Islam, and taken down his YouTube page.

On 25 October 2009, a video was posted on the popular video hosting service, LiveLeak.com, which shows Jenvey admitting that his conversion to Islam was fake and was part of a year-long undercover research effort to gather evidence for a forthcoming book he plans to release.

Jenvey appeared in the film Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. He was interviewed by the BBC's Newsnight programme on 17 April 2008, in his Whiteparish, Wiltshire home about his internet monitoring activities. He had previously appeared on the programme in 2006.