Galloway speaks to the media after arriving Monday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.
Posted on 05/17/2005 4:37:17 AM PDT by Libloather
British Parliament member to face oil-for-food accusers
From Phil Hirschkorn
CNN
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Posted: 0746 GMT (1546 HKT)
Galloway speaks to the media after arriving Monday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.
(CNN) -- British Parliament member George Galloway will face his accusers when he testifies Tuesday before a U.S. Senate panel probing the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.
Galloway is due to appear before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which stated in a report last week that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein granted him vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil between 2000 and 2003.
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Galloway is scheduled to appear late Tuesday morning in Washington as the final witness in a hearing that begins at 9:30 a.m. ET.
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Galloway, 51, who met with Saddam several times in the 1990s, has been a leading critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his alliance with U.S. President George Bush in the war with Iraq. He was re-elected on an anti-war platform earlier this month.
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A new report from Democrats on the Senate subcommittee concludes the United States ended up with a majority of the oil lifted from Iraq after vendors paid illicit surcharges of 10 cents to 30 cents a barrel to Saddam.
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The Democratic report found Bayoil shipped a lot of oil allocated to a company called Italtech run by Augusto Giangrandi, a sometime Florida resident with dual Chilean-Italian citizenship.
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I can't believe the cables aren't showing this.
I can't find a live feed that works :0(
Coleman laying out the "charges " so to speak
This one work for you??
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/livehearing.ram
Parliamentary participation statistics
According to theyworkforyou.com, as of May 6th, 2005, George Galloway had:
spoken in 0 debates in the last year — tied for last, out of 659 MPs.
Asked 0 written questions in the last year — in a large multi-way tie for last, out of 659 MPs.
attended 3% of votes in parliament — 649th out of 657 MPs.
Nope .. says it couldn't make a connection
Here's hoping that Norm goes "old school" on this waste of skin Galloway.
ok .. I got it to work
My firewall was blocking real player
It says they use real player, and it offers a download of real player. Does me no good as my webtv won't process. Has to be microsoft for me. Can you download the real player? If you go back to the original page, it should give you a link to download real player.
Let's see how hard Levin comes down on this.........
Levin up now.. continuing laying out who what and how much each of the players got, also describing how OFF should have worked
Good!!! I've never been particularly fond of lawyers except when I needed one!!!! Then , I love them.
It will come in verrry handy now!
Sounds like he's blaming the oil company and not the person who took the bribe
Both of those links work for me now; you must have something set wrong.
Galloway and his sorry mouth are going to wish he never opened it when my man Norm Coleman turns on the heat. This should be excellent. Galloway is out of his league.
Galloway and his sorry mouth are going to wish he never opened it when my man Norm Coleman turns on the heat. This should be excellent. Galloway is out of his league.
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