Career
Mahmood got his first job as a journalist at the age of 18, exposing family friends who sold pirate videos. This gained him two weeks work at the News of the World, after which he started freelancing at the Sunday People. In 1984, while trying with fellow journalist Roger Insall to expose a vice-ring at the Metropole Hotel at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, he first used the sheikh disguise when inviting prostitutes to a hotel room.
He then worked for The Sunday Times, which according to the International Herald Tribune he joined in 1989. A managing editor at that time, Roy Greenslade, later alleged that Mahmood was dismissed for trying to cover-up a mistake. Mahmood has consistently disputed Greenslade's version of events. Mahmood then briefly worked as a producer on the TV-am programme of David Frost, before joining the News of the World in 1991.
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