(Live Thread) British Parliament member George Galloway to face oil-for-food accusers (Live Thread)

CNN.com ^ | 5/17/05 | Phil Hirschkorn

[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.

[goodnesswins]

Coleman is going to "refresh" Galloway's memory

[kabar]

This is true. The US gave waviers to Turkey and Jordan to continue buying oil from Iraq outside the Oil for Food program. It was US policy in the Clinton and GWB administrations

[tjwmason]

Now (for me) Galloway cites the Telegraph documents and I'm sure he's going to point out he won his libel suit. A suit the Telegraph is fighting back on.

It is also worth noting that Galloway's cases in the libel trial made no reference to whether the documents were genuine or not - their validity has never been tested in court.

[kcvl]

CNN is playing the hearings again!

[pitinkie]

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/livehearing.ram

[Miss Marple]

I am back on Real Player, too.

Norm is giving Galloway a document to "refresh his memory."

[jayef]

The DUmmies are in LOVE!

[Carolinamom]

Asman "will continue to monitor" .........means HE decides what we will hear.

[cyncooper]

Galloway: "This is the mother of all smokescreen"

Cites HALLIBURTON

[Useless_eater_on_steroids]

MSNBC, FOX, and RealPlayer all cut in in the middle of Colemans case. Hopefully CSPAN will ahve uninterupted coverage of the hearing.

[onyx]

Anti-Iraqi war monologue = as per David on Fox...lol.

Bangor, Maine = flight diverted, and now a commercial. Geeeez.

[TFine80]

And a lunatic Anti-Semite...

What does AIPAC have to do with anything?

[Mo1]

Now Galloway is bringing in Israel into it

[auboy]

CNN and MSNBC are cutting away. too. All let this SOB's spiel be carried in full, then cut away when Coleman started his line of questions.

[pitinkie]

Yeah talking about Colemans trips to Israel

[tiredoflaundry]

I guess he figures throw it all out there. something will stick!

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

Thanks a million for the link.

[onyx]

I can't get RP or the other link.
Please tell us everything you possibly can...

[OXENinFLA]

I hope pause works on RP, I gotta go to lunch........

[pitinkie]

sure!