UK Plan to incite anti-western propaganda

The Guardian/Observer reports:

British intelligence officers planned a 'black propaganda' campaign against Islamic extremists, infiltrating their groups through the internet, documents leaked to The Observer reveal.
Details of the proposals, contained in a letter from the head of the intelligence arm of the Foreign Office, will cause widespread alarm within government.

The letter reveals that the FCO planned to spread anti-Western propaganda as a way of gaining the trust of Islamic extremists and then arguing that violence was not the way forward.

Last week, in a separate leak, The Observer revealed that the permanent secretary at the Foreign Office has directly blamed the war in Iraq for a growth of extremism in Britain.