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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

ya mean, The MUMMIE in a COWBOY GETUP


461 posted on 05/17/2005 9:08:17 AM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: paul_fromatlanta
The US was not trying to protect Saddam and Sons, or their so-called containment.

We obviously wanted the charade to end, we wanted regime change of a dangerous failed state whos leader and sons had billions for WMD, the capability, and the M.O. to use them.

WE, the US government, were not protecting him for money, they were, among their other reasons of wanting a proxy war against the US by the Islamic cults that Saddam openly paid.

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.

462 posted on 05/17/2005 9:08:31 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: onyx; Dad yer funny
You mean Fox & Friends? If so, I agree. Can't endure it. Much prefer (ducking) IMUS.

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...

463 posted on 05/17/2005 9:08:35 AM PDT by mhking (Newsweek lied, people died... --Turk 182)
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To: mhking

Levin is handling him with kid gloves. Obvious mutual respect between the two.


464 posted on 05/17/2005 9:08:43 AM PDT by kabar
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To: pitinkie

C-SPAN 3 covering taped base programming coverage instead of live hearings...


465 posted on 05/17/2005 9:09:04 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: oceanview


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!


466 posted on 05/17/2005 9:09:08 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: All

And yet again, they stop when galloway is through talking. I'm going outside for a smoke before I stroke out.


467 posted on 05/17/2005 9:09:22 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: kabar

Fox bailing yet again...

BBC World is carrying this live: (WMP) mms://mplay.donga.com/bbc


468 posted on 05/17/2005 9:09:23 AM PDT by mhking (Newsweek lied, people died... --Turk 182)
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To: gopwinsin04

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!


469 posted on 05/17/2005 9:09:26 AM PDT by Timeout (Dean & the Bike Path Left: aging anti-warriors who use "summer" as a verb~~Jonah)
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To: kcvl

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).


470 posted on 05/17/2005 9:09:37 AM PDT by rhc2000
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To: kabar

Levin is really getting annoyed now.


471 posted on 05/17/2005 9:09:50 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: pbrown

You know, on Tuesday, the Senate has their weekly luncheon, so maybe c-span 2 will show this on that channel during that time!!!


472 posted on 05/17/2005 9:09:59 AM PDT by Txsleuth ( Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: mhking; Dad yer funny


You too Mike? NOW, I KNOW F&F truly sux. :)


473 posted on 05/17/2005 9:10:02 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: mhking

Levin asks...."would it trouble you?"


474 posted on 05/17/2005 9:10:05 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: gopwinsin04

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.


475 posted on 05/17/2005 9:10:11 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: kabar

Wolf Blitzer thinks it's GREAT that Gallaway is being an ass to Coleman! Even though Gallaway hasn't answered ONE QUESTION!


476 posted on 05/17/2005 9:10:35 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Dad yer funny


YES! LOL-LOL-LOL -- you're so funny. :)


477 posted on 05/17/2005 9:10:46 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: Timeout

This is great political theatre, Galloway is absolutely going batty.


478 posted on 05/17/2005 9:10:56 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: onyx

"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


479 posted on 05/17/2005 9:10:56 AM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: onyx

DAGNABIT! I'm pi$$Ed.


480 posted on 05/17/2005 9:10:57 AM PDT by hobson
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