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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Georgie is coming to lie..terrific!
"It's Mr. Coleman who's been all over the news and he's a lick-spittle, crazed neocon who is engaged in a witch hunt against all those he perceives to have betrayed the United States in their plan to invade and occupy Iraq," Galloway told Associated Press Television News.
I triple dare Mr. Galloway to use this kind of invective to Sen. Coleman's face.
Good lord! This could REALLY be a great day for laughs.
I love Norm Coleman!
good one , ... yeah , we're awash with bolshevik liars spouting the latest "snappy byte"
I plan on doing a lot of "cleaning" right around this bonus room with the TV and computer. I am NOT missing this one!
I guess no one clued Galloway on how our Senate Hearings work huh??
This might be like a Jerry Springer Version of Mr. Smith goes to Washington
We had a lot of Galloway threads before and during the war's beginnings...It will be a show.
You are going to have the cleanest bonus room anywhere. And I must say you are a very talented multi-tasker. Vacuuming, dusting, watching TV, and FReeping all at once!
-MP George Galloway- voice cries "peace," hand in Saddam's till...--
I'm clearing the decks here. My car will just have to wait yet another day to be inspected!
[in a quiet voice] haapppy buurrp day 2 U , ,...how were those King Crab legs I had flown in??
Done.
Oh, YOU sent me the Alaskan King crab legs? Absolutely delicious, and with plenty of drawn butter too. Thank you dear. *wink*
They have carside service ..
Woohoo .. Dinner will be ready tonight!!
Dang. He really did show up..
I believe that Galloway is on Tony Snow Show tomorrow. IIRC.
Thanks! Must See TV today!
so , right now CSPAN Wendy Long of the Judicial Confirmation Network[our side?] just repeated "minority rights" when refering to Senate RATS , I wish there was a different way to state that , the bolsheviks shout that phrase to rouse the rabble ,...oops they're done
How does this hearing work? Is it a question and answer session driven by the panel or will Galloway get to speechify? You will regret it if the latter, he has a motormouth.
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