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28 July 2009

Smear campaign in a pickle

Sunny Hundal hits back over vain attempt to damage Mehdi Hasan

By James Macintyre

As you may not have noticed unless you are one of those shady anonymous bloggers who tend only to come out at night, dressed in nothing but a raincoat and in need of serious help, my colleague Mehdi Hasan has been the subject of an unsuccessful and unspeakable online smear campaign. I shall be returning to this issue later, but in the meantime I would direct you to this excellent post by Sunny Hundal of Pickled Politics which takes apart some of their more embarassing claims. Watch this space…

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