It is perhaps a disguise, and a modus operandi, that has long passed its sell-by date. When George Galloway met wealthy Muslim businessman Pervaiz Khan for dinner at the Dorchester Hotel a week ago, the Respect MP claims to have smelled a rat instantly.
Clad in flowing robes, but curiously beardless, Khan "did not remotely resemble" the devout Islamist he claimed to be, says Galloway. After some small talk, he and a "business associate" named Sam Fernando began to ask "ludicrously leading questions". How might they financially sponsor a British MP? Could they fund a political party? According to Galloway, they then made a number of "offensive" remarks about Jews - even questioning the veracity of the Holocaust - clearly in the hope of extracting similarly vile comments from the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow.
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George Galloway, an MP in the British Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow, has won a court battle allowing him to publish photos of the infamous News of the World "fake sheikh", undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood famed for setting up high-profile figures. George Galloway had a meeting with the reporter after being approached via a contact. Over dinner at the Dorchester hotel, Mazher is said by George Galloway to have asked leading questions over political party funding and to have solicited anti-semitic remarks. George Galloway became ever more suspicious, especially after seeing that the reporter's driver had a 'mouthful of gold teeth', as described in journalist Andrew Marr's book.

After threatening to release a photograph of the reporter, who has in the past tried hard to keep his identity secret, the News of the World sought an injunction against publication, claiming that they feared for his safety, and lost.

In a post on the ''Guardian'' newspaper's ''Comment is Free'' weblog, George Galloway said that Mazher "has crossed the cusp of reputable journalism into seeking to procure criminal acts".