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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Thanks for calling them. Back on here too.
Why do they keep showing Galloway saying that he is not guilty? but then cutting away when the Senators are sticking it to HIM? Jeezzzz
I think he is annoyed at how Galloway keeps cutting him off .. LOL
I read somewhere that Galloway got elected to Parliament because he ran in a heavy Muslim area.
Back on Fox
You mean Fox & Friends? If so, I agree. Can't endure it. Much prefer (ducking) IMUS.
I love the backhanded civility slaps from both sides, 'I hope this answer will pleas you..'
Oh, sheesh....1 million dead in Iraq, mostly children...per Galloway......I believe the UN had no right to starve the Iraqi people because they had fallen out with the Iraqi former dictator........
It is back on Fox, but is it backing up? Or is Galloway repeating himself?
"30 cents" -- Oh, he KNOWS that conversion rate, but not the other....
Feh...
Levin letting Galloway spout off instead of answering
his argument is insane - the oil for food program CAUSED the deaths of iraqi children? why didn't the regime use the proceeds for their intended purpose.
It's LIVE (for now).
Exactly. In fact today Galloway took pains to only call the CSM documents forgeries. Loudly and strongly. He did not directly label the Telegraph records as such, but tried to mix up the issue.
Galloway now saying it is surreal to hear he was giving money to Saddam...$300,000.
Beyond the realms of ridiculousness, he says.
"Your war with Iraq" he says a couple times for emphasis.
Someone needs to kick his soapbox out from under him!
What a pr*ck! Who is this clown to come before the Senate subcommittee and lecture...
Kickbacks small compared to the American companies......
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