Islam's secret army? Hizb-ut Tahrir, the transnational party whose declared goal is to establish an Islamic superstate, is causing growing concern in capital cities around the world, as Ed Blanche reports from Beirut.

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Islam's secret army? Hizb-ut Tahrir, the transnational party whose declared goal is to establish an Islamic superstate, is causing growing concern in capital cities around the world, as Ed Blanche reports from Beirut.

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FOR YEARS, WESTERN governments paid little heed to an Islamic organisation called Hizb-ut Tahrir (HT, or Party of Liberation) dedicated to setting up a worldwide caliphate, restoring the religious and political authority through which the Ottoman sultans ruled an empire that stretched from Europe to Asia for more than 500 years.

Even though this secretive, highly disciplined Sunni Muslim organisation espouses overthrowing the governments of Arab and Asian states, as does Osama bin Laden, who also calls for the return of a caliphate based on Islamic reli...

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