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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Cites Chalabi and calls him a fraudster and con-man, largley responsible for leading us into the disaster in Iraq.
(above are Galloway's sentiments)
and has not been paid even "one thin dime" ---
what colossal gall!
I can well understand his wife dumping him.
Neo-cons.........
Web-feed getting sloooooooooow
I'll be interested to see the spelling of that Scot expression
How long will this blowhard speak before coleman gets to counter his remarks?
FORGED documents!
"Now senator - I gave my heart and soul "
OH STUFF IT!
>>I hope Coleman has evidence that he slaps him with.<<
Coleman better have the evidence at this point because otherwise this is gonna be a big PR hit.....
particularly with that report coming out today claiming Americans got 52% of Saddam oil allocations and trying to make it look like the Bush administration ignored that and that the Army was involved with Jordan in buying oil from Iraq that bypassed the oil for food program...
Coleman really needs to be on his game today to avoid a bit hit.
"I hope Coleman has evidence that he slaps him with."
Me too.
This guy sounds believable, but most good liers often do.
If Coleman does not come out strong this guy could come out ahead on well spoken material anyway.
Mass killings of Iraquis
He has notes, but doesn't refer to them very often. He is looking straight ahead most of the time.
http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/background/index.html
Oil-for-Food
Origins: In August 1990 the Security Council adopted resolution 661, imposing comprehensive sanctions on Iraq following that country’s invasion of Kuwait. In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War in 1991, the Secretary-General dispatched an inter-agency mission to assess the humanitarian needs arising in Iraq and Kuwait. The mission visited Iraq from 10 to 17 March 1991 and reported that "the Iraqi people may soon face a further imminent catastrophe, which could include epidemic and famine, if massive life-supporting needs are not rapidly met." (S/22366, para. 37). Throughout 1991, with growing concern over the humanitarian situation in the country, the United Nations proposed measures to enable Iraq to sell limited quantities of oil to meet its people's needs. The Government of Iraq declined these offers, contained in particular, in resolutions 706 (1991) and 712 (1991), adopted, respectively, in August and September 1991.
I'm up to his indignation over Abu Ghraib and "how you treat prisoners" there.
(keeps calling Iraq a disaster)
"I had never set foot in Iraq until late 1993".
Who said that he did?!
"Oil for food scheme didn't exist during my time".
"War with Iraq killed a million children" "for no other reason but because they were Iraqis".
I'm watching Fox, with the live feed on mute.
Jeez, now Galloway is starting about how we killed thousands of Iraqi children, your case for war was a pack of lies, etc. etc.
It would be ok with me if Coleman pulled out a gun and shot him.
Link?
HOW LONG are they going to let him go on.....????
Talking about Coleman'n neo-con war in Iraq---This guy sounds like someone who is making a statement right before they hang him.....
One hundred thousand have lost their lives in Iraq????
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