Hassan Butt: I wasn't a terrorist

Astonishing turn of events chronicled by this Channel 4 video.

It turns out that reformed terrorist Hassan Butt isn't reformed at all - because he never had the links with Al-Qaeda he claimed to have.

A bit of questioning by the boys in blue had Butt singing like a canary.

He even arranged to have himself stabbed to show how he lived in fear from those he supposedly once fraternised with. This led Ed Hussain to write an article based on it:

In Manchester in April, Hassan Butt, a one-time jihadist who is now opposed to extremism, was stabbed and beaten for speaking out against fanaticism. He now lives in hiding. Why was this not reported in the mainstream media?

All of which must make us wonder - why would anyone want to make themselves out to have been an idiot terrorist? He and journalist Shiv Malik were planning a book about his 'experiences'. Must be some amount of money in this game.