Dominic Whiteman

Dominic Whiteman runs the private investigation network, VIGIL www.vigilnetwork.com and works for the international security firm, Crypt.

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 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.

Affiliations

• Islamic News
• Vigil