{"id":745,"date":"2006-07-25T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/07\/25\/the_fake_sheikhs_downfall"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:36:14","slug":"the_fake_sheikhs_downfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/07\/25\/the_fake_sheikhs_downfall","title":{"rendered":"The Fake Sheikh&#8217;s downfall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BBC NEWS | UK | Is this the end for 'fake sheikh'?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4471142.stm\">BBC NEWS: Is this the end for &#39;fake sheikh&#39;?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An analysis of the attempt by Mazher Mahmood, a reporter on the Murdoch-owned <em>News of the World<\/em> who entraps people into dropping themselves in it one way or another by posing as an Arab sheikh, despite not speaking Arabic, to get three men to buy radioactive <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/5176382.stm\">&quot;red mercury&quot;<\/a> so that he could expose them as terrorists.  They claim they wanted to shop <em>him<\/em> to the police in Norway.  (I&#39;m surprised this guy can get away with his fake sheikh trick for this long given that he doesn&#39;t speak Arabic, and I&#39;m glad he won&#39;t get away for much longer &#8211; some of his scoops have involved entrapping people into screwing up their business as with Prince Edward&#39;s wife.  He&#39;s a scoundrel who works for a trashy rag.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS: Is this the end for &#39;fake sheikh&#39;? An analysis of the attempt by Mazher Mahmood, a reporter on the Murdoch-owned News of the World who entraps people into dropping themselves in it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42341,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/42341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}