Dominic Whiteman runs the private investigation network, VIGIL www.vigilnetwork.com and the international security firm Crypt Group www.cryptgroup.com
The Vigil Network - with over fifty members worldwide (twenty of whom are focused solely on monitoring virtual fake-jihadi and jihadi activity) - has been behind many successful investigations and some high profile exposés. In the UK these exposés have included the BBC’s Hizb ut Tahrir exposé of November 14th 2006 and the law-changing Radical British Libraries’ book stock exposé of September 2007 (see www.vigilnetwork.com media section). Dominic is European Director of the network, based in London, and works with the media, think tanks, advocates and politicians across Europe and the United States to investigate and expose culturalist, conveyor-belt and actual terrorist threats from extreme Islamism and other subversive, terror-related threats (notably the LTTE threat to Sri Lanka).
Born in England in the early 1970’s, educated at a well-known British boarding school and the London School of Economics, Dominic has travelled and worked in a variety of countries and continents.
Dominic specializes as a counter terror adviser on Sri Lanka (BBC World) and UK Islamism (appearing in the past on BBC News, BBC Newsnight, ITV, & Channel 4). He has been interview for radio and TV. He writes for a range of publications and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Westminster Journal www.westminsterjournal.com His Homeland Security Handbook, The Seven Steps to Victory, will be published in the United States in the Summer of 2008. Dominic’s poetry and political philosophy essays are available online.
Dominic is a member of the Conservative Party of Great Britain & Northern Ireland - his motto is that “there is a mainstream solution to every political problem” and describes his political stance as marginally left of centre. Dominic is a regular speaker at public debates and conferences - speaking mostly on homelessness, the terror threat, liberty or the environment.
Aside from investigative and political work, Dominic is Vice-President of a now second division English rugby club (where he used to be a player) and - with his wife - helps out with special events at a homeless charity. He is an honorary member of his local rifle and pistol club. He is a trumpeter and composes classical music (two collaborative classical music CDs - Calder & Whiteman’s “Piano Journeys” and “Solos” are in the public domain). His business interests include a polling business and online radio station. He lives with his wife - a fashion model - and man-eating dogs in a London townhouse.
NB Due to the nature of Dominic’s work, he endures the skulduggery of an assortment of character assassins, like the (waning) radical Islamist cult Hizb ut Tahrir whose Imran Waheed has created a fraudulent characterisation of VIGIL, linking Dominic to various individuals he’s never contacted let alone met (see Hizb ut Tahrir rebuttal www.vigilnetwork.com). This is a common tactic used by radical Islamists who seek to push their mainstream opponents like Dominic & Vigil into the perceived extremes; often referring to them as “Neocons” when they are nothing of the sort.
Dominic is commonly attacked on jihadi and Islamist message boards (either by Islamists, the Left or those whose applications to VIGIL were rejected), He’s been the subject of various writs (most regularly from Saudi Arabian plaintiffs) and has been accused online of acts ranging from participation in evidence fabrication to - perhaps most bizarrely - working for the Russian security bureau, the FSB. Omar Bakri Mohammed referred to Dominic in 2007 as a dirty kafir (unbeliever) spy - all piffle. Whatever you wish to know about the man - please use the Contact button on this site (linked through to VIGIL).
Do this rather than taking the smears of his and the VIGIL Network’s numerous enemies as read - enemies who tend to operate cowardly in the shadows and are being exposed by the British, European and American media, post-9/11, at such an impressive rate that the white flag shop is currently running very low on stock.
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