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(Live Thread) British Parliament member George Galloway to face oil-for-food accusers (Live Thread)
CNN.com ^ | 5/17/05 | Phil Hirschkorn

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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To: onyx

Thanks for calling them. Back on here too.


441 posted on 05/17/2005 9:05:50 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: kcvl

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


442 posted on 05/17/2005 9:05:59 AM PDT by Txsleuth ( Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: mhking; Howlin
Levin is on the attack here. Fascinating....

I think he is annoyed at how Galloway keeps cutting him off .. LOL

443 posted on 05/17/2005 9:06:07 AM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: tjwmason

I read somewhere that Galloway got elected to Parliament because he ran in a heavy Muslim area.


444 posted on 05/17/2005 9:06:09 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Dem & RINO senators have "eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner."---.Macbeth)
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To: Dad yer funny

Back on Fox


445 posted on 05/17/2005 9:06:15 AM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: Dad yer funny


You mean Fox & Friends? If so, I agree. Can't endure it. Much prefer (ducking) IMUS.


446 posted on 05/17/2005 9:06:29 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: mhking
Galloway really doesn't want to challenge Levin, this could get really messy!!

I love the backhanded civility slaps from both sides, 'I hope this answer will pleas you..'

447 posted on 05/17/2005 9:06:37 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: Carolinamom

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........


448 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:02 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: onyx

It is back on Fox, but is it backing up? Or is Galloway repeating himself?


449 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:03 AM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: cyncooper

"30 cents" -- Oh, he KNOWS that conversion rate, but not the other....

Feh...


450 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:04 AM PDT by mhking (Newsweek lied, people died... --Turk 182)
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To: paul_fromatlanta
Documents: U.S. condoned Iraq oil smuggling
451 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:05 AM PDT by kabar
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To: gopwinsin04

Levin letting Galloway spout off instead of answering


452 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:18 AM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: onyx

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.


453 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:28 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: onyx
Gallaway isn't answering ANY QUESTIONS. He is just preaching to the U.S. Answer the damn questions, Gallaway!!!
454 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:29 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: GottaLuvAkitas1


It's LIVE (for now).


455 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:54 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: onyx
Galloway blames the UN for killing and the mass graves in Iraq because of the sanctions

Now he is blaming Boyner and Colemen for something
456 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:58 AM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: tjwmason

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.


457 posted on 05/17/2005 9:07:59 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: kcvl

Someone needs to kick his soapbox out from under him!


458 posted on 05/17/2005 9:08:08 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry ("Harry Reid in stripes, I kinda like that image." -Tagline courtesy of DFU. Thanks!)
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To: pbrown

What a pr*ck! Who is this clown to come before the Senate subcommittee and lecture...


459 posted on 05/17/2005 9:08:13 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: kcvl

Kickbacks small compared to the American companies......


460 posted on 05/17/2005 9:08:16 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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