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.
**SNIP**
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.
**SNIP**
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.
**SNIP**
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.
**SNIP**
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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OH FNC! Watching now on Fox!
Galloway: "You have nothing on me"
Uh huh...we'll see.
You should be able to just click on this link
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/livehearing.ram
Somehow my feed which states "LIVE" is on a delay and I'm getting Coleman's opening to Galloway.
I suspect if I closed and reopened I'd join you all in real time, but I want to hear Coleman's documentation and Galloway's opening so choose to lag.
My feed is about to show Galloway. I am seeing Galloway SWORN IN.
OMG!!
I can't wait till Norm nails him .. he's calling Norm a liar
Now he's being Pope JPII into this
FOX showing antagonistic Galloway now.
Change the file association .ram to point to that program.
I hope so. This guy is out of the British parliamentary mold. He is fast on his feet. Speaking without apparent notes.
The hearing is live on CNN now
Why do they have all the good stuff when I have to go to lunch???
Here we go with his "not an oil trader".
What an ass.
Says Coleman remarkably cavalier, he says cavalierly.
I see Fox and CNN have finally gone to the hearing. Now MSNBC joins, too.
Wow, he's dragging in Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, etc. He is really a piece of work!
Fox has it now and I am a computer dunce.
Insinuating we torture prisoners...
What a jerk!
"If you had anybody who ever paid me a dollar, you would have produced them here today."
OH _ MY _ GOD.
Fox has quite a delay , more than 7 sec
He says he has NEVER been paid a penny
He is spouting the Arab line.
He thinks he is an arab
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