Last week, the Guardian published an article in which the author, Delwar Hussain, named a number of prominent British Muslims who have been associated with war crimes in the Genocide of East Pakistan in 1971.
We discussed the article on the Spittoon, in which we expressed our expectation that the Guardian was bound to get sued by Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin for publishing Delwar’s piece:
Being an extremely litigious sort of individual, published reports which recounted these allegations have almost always been silenced by a swift libel notice from Mueen-Uddin’s lawyers and it is very likely that the Guardian might also be forced to retract that article in a similar manner.
Harry’s Place made a similar assertion:
Mueen-Uddin usually responds to these reports by instructing Carter Ruck to fire off a letter before action. Perhaps he won’t this time, and is now content to be described as a war criminal and the murderer of Bangladeshi patriots. If not, I hope that the Guardian stands its ground when the letter before action comes flying.
