HARDtalk
Noman Benotman, President of Quilliam Foundation
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S19 • E114 Sep 23, 2015 30mHARDtalk's Stephen Sackur talks to Noman Benotman, a former Libyan jihadist and al Qaeda associate now president of the Quilliam Foundation, an influential voice in the fight against extremism. Hundreds of would-be jihadist fighters and supporters from Britain have journeyed to the self-declared Caliphate established by Daesh or IS, in territory straddling Syria and Iraq. Some have since returned to the UK, adding to the government's fears of a potent home grown extremist threat. Will the British government's intensified deradicalisation efforts work?