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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ya mean, The MUMMIE in a COWBOY GETUP
The UN was very happy with Saddam and Sons role in the world, and the way Saddam flouted the surrender agreement he signed in 91. The leftwing in Europe, here, in the media, and the UN SC, have as their main goal, to reduce US and Israeli power.
Don't feel bad -- I'm about two steps from watching American Morning on CNN over F&F. At least with them I know I'm being lied to and not being toyed with...
Levin is handling him with kid gloves. Obvious mutual respect between the two.
C-SPAN 3 covering taped base programming coverage instead of live hearings...
He's preaching to "the street" and to MSM.
Very effective, I'm sorry to say, and with FNC cutting away, our side isn't getting its due time!
And yet again, they stop when galloway is through talking. I'm going outside for a smoke before I stroke out.
Fox bailing yet again...
BBC World is carrying this live: (WMP) mms://mplay.donga.com/bbc
This is soooo frustrating! I had to leave home and can't get it to come up on my client's computer...and the TV is in the other room! Arrrgggghhhh!
Oh well, guess I'll turn on Rush and see what he's got going. Please keep giving us updates!
Levin is getting angered by Galloway's grandstanding and not answering questions. I don't have much good to say about Levin, but he's acting more like an American Senator then a partisan Democrat (at least right now).
Levin is really getting annoyed now.
You know, on Tuesday, the Senate has their weekly luncheon, so maybe c-span 2 will show this on that channel during that time!!!
You too Mike? NOW, I KNOW F&F truly sux. :)
Levin asks...."would it trouble you?"
to e honest, I don't have a problem with that aspect of this. he has the right to say anything he wants at a hearing format like this - there is no requirement for him to be a sheep. what he is saying is another thing, its up to the senators to properly grill him.
Wolf Blitzer thinks it's GREAT that Gallaway is being an ass to Coleman! Even though Gallaway hasn't answered ONE QUESTION!
YES! LOL-LOL-LOL -- you're so funny. :)
This is great political theatre, Galloway is absolutely going batty.
"He's preaching to "the street" and to MSM.
Very effective, I'm sorry to say, and with FNC cutting away, our side isn't getting its due time! "
One good thing is that they summed him up as not answering questions and a ranter. LOL
DAGNABIT! I'm pi$$Ed.
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