I happened to be in Birmingham England one night when this journalism student came up to me at an event.

He was talking fast, like I might walk away any second.

It was a tsunami that hit Birmingham. Birmingham does not get national attention.

It was a circus mate. I can't even describe to you.

His name was Hamza Sayed, and he wanted help on his first ever story

about a mystery in Birmingham, his hometown, that no one had ever solved.

It had begun a few years earlier, when news of a strange letter exploded in the press.

A leaked letter outlining a plot by Hardline Muslims.

The letter looked to be,

well Hamza, you want to explain this part?

The letter looked to be a secret communique, between Islamic extremists who had been infiltrating the city schools

in a supposed plot called Operation Trojan Horse.

The letter was bizarre, unsigned and coherent, badly ziroxed,

yet still, it sparked one of the biggest schools candles in British history.

Government investigators descended on Birmingham. The country beefed up its counter-terror policy.

By the time it all died down, schools were revamped, teachers lost their jobs,

some people were banned for life from education.

The fallout has been huge, Prime Minister David Cameron, as we said, is calling a special meeting

of the government's extremism task force.

But what I always found suspicious about this whole affair is that this dodgy letter,

suggesting extremists were taken over our schools.

Nobody ever found out who wrote it, or why.

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