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| Galloway lied over Iraqi oil payments, says Congress report |
| 2005-10-24 |
| EFL-FU - HT to Drudge George Galloway, the British MP, was last night accused of lying by a US Congressional committee when he testified earlier this year that he had not received any United Nation food-for-oil allocations from the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. In a report issued here, Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman and his colleagues on the Senate Subcommittee for Investigations claim to have evidence showing that Mr Galloway's political organisation and his wife received vouchers worth almost $600,000 (£338,000) from the then Iraqi government. "We have what we call the smoking gun," said Mr Coleman, who will send the report to the US Department of Justice and the British authorities. The MP could face charges of perjury, making false statements and obstructing a Congressional investigation. Each charge carries a possible jail term of five years and a fine of $250,000. But Mr Galloway again denied the allegations - as vehemently as he did last May in a bravura performance before the Subcommittee, when he accused Mr Coleman of mounting "the mother of all smokescreens" to divert attention from America's post-invasion difficulties, and launched a broadside against the Bush administration's entire policy in Iraq. "I have not made a penny out of oil deals with Iraq, or indeed any other kind of deal," the MP said last night. "This ought to be dead, yet Norm Coleman parrots it once more from 3,000 miles away and protected by privilege." His spokesman later described the report as "derogatory and defamatory". The report claims that between 1999 and 2003 Mr Galloway personally solicited and was granted vouchers for 23 million barrels of oil, at below the market price. These vouchers could then be resold at a profit. It also alleges that money was channelled to Amineh Abu-Zayyad, the MP's wife, and to the Mariam Appeal, an organisation set up by Mr Galloway to help a young Iraqi girl with leukemia. Mr Coleman maintains that his evidence is based on bank records, as well as interviews with Tariq Aziz, the former foreign minister and deputy prime minister under Saddam, and with the former vice-president Taha Yasin Ramadan. Mr Galloway's appearance before the panel, the Minnesota senator said, was "a lot of bombast". The MP was "anything but straight with the committee; he was anything but straight with the American people |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #9 Hey! I saw her in a bar one time. Don't remember where and all I remember was she hated me on sight, but I remember her. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-10-24 23:23 |
| #8 Good catch Frank, I'd like to see the bastard Galloway and his crickets humilated with solid evidence [paper and testimony]and then indicted. I propose a toast, Here's to a short trip to hell for Galloway & friends, have a nice rot in hell for an eternity . Abdominal Snowman, It helps if you close two eyes on one side and just look at her with the other two. ..that only cut 1/2 the nausea and vomiting AS, so i had to nail a piece of plywood on my monitor. / |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-10-24 22:51 |
| #7 heh heh thanks AS - never would've thought of that |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-24 22:20 |
| #6 The MP could face charges of perjury, making false statements and obstructing a Congressional investigation. Each charge carries a possible jail term of five years and a fine of $250,000. As much as I detest both Galloway and the UN, this would be a horrible precedent to set. I hope it's never seriously considered. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2005-10-24 22:14 |
| #5 It helps if you close two eyes on one side and just look at her with the other two. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2005-10-24 21:38 |
| #4 fair enuf! that chick weirds me out....hurts my head |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-24 21:29 |
| #3 Oops, I posted the pic while you were wagging yer finger at me, lol. Okay, let's see if it passes muster... I wouldn't trust Aziz, of course, to come clean in a trial, but if the records are solid and the paper trail disproves his statements, both public and sworn, that would be soooo sweet! Should Aziz unfuck himself, for a change, and decide to testify - that would be icing. He wasn't very cooperative after capture, according to news reports, so this change comes as news, too. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-10-24 21:26 |
| #2 Uh, wait a minute, this is like deja vu all over again, Frank, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-10-24 21:21 |
| #1 see PD? There is evidence. He'll deny it, of course, and his euro-CAIR/True believers will back him up, sipping deeply from the dhimmi-koolaid |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-24 21:19 |