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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who is this up now?? Berkovitz is done?
FULL LIAR MODE -- your fav...lol.
I believe you are correct.
Funny how all those calls got routed to the State Department. I wonder if any State people were paid off.
**** popping popcorn *****
Damn..... that will be a great 15 round heavyweight fight. Coleman wins in a TKO stopped in the 6th round!
But, I'm working here in my nursery....... so I have no clue what is happening.
Make mine with lots of butter and garlic salt. :)
You know, Coleman, being a former prosecutor, isn't going to call someone like Galloway unless he has the goods on him. Mr. Galloway may think he can grandstand, but Norm has papers and charts and is loaded for bear.
Question time. Seven minute rounds.
Coleman calls for exhibit 13 to be put up, which is now happening. Documents.
The "moderate" Obama up.
well said , today they'll be squalkin' to every media outlet they can
Up and out ... back to the floor.
You're right, MM.
Coleman will be thoroughly prepared.
Now showing that the documents are genuine!! Coleman has anticipated Galloway's "forged documents" defense!
Coleman said there would be 7 minute blocks to ask questions
yeah , I keep tryin' to tell them that they're gonna break it, it only goes to 10 and they keep twistin' that knob
I am on the link maggiefluffs supplied. I don't get a very good picture but I can hear everything! This is great!
Galloway is toast!
Witness says that trading in oil wasn't the point. It was the trading in the ALLOCATIONS.
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