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.
**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.
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Where are we going to watch this? I don't see it on the C-SPAN schedule.
A lot of us will have very clean computer rooms today!
;-)
If only there was somewhere online to get my car inspected, I could really get some stuff done today!
lol!
Watching CSPAN call in , ... FULL LIAR MODE is dialed up again ,... caller saying he's a moderate , "BLAblahblabla , but Clinton had that one little problem,that had nothing to do with...."
Dont underestimate Galloway - He may be an asshole but hes an intelligent one and he wont be intimidated
the music for the Tony Snow Show just came on
I've seen prisoners spit at firing squads too.
yup , ... and there is that odd circumstance where extra-intelligence is ascribed to the accent and diction ,... there'll be some good bytes from this one
Shhhh - Dont tell anyone!
His accent and diction are identical to mine (and Im trying to keep 'em fooled)
I just hope he sits there and insults our Senators and shows the world what a jerk he is. I don't care how smart the guy is, he's a first-class British jerk and little would please me more than to see him hauled out of the hearing room by the Capitol Police.
hey ,... get'a'load'a , Rep Sherrod Brown D-Ohio-Bedhead , ...BWAaaahaha-HA
yeah , Fleet St would have a blast with such a circus
Is Coleman a lawyer and if so is he a good one?
I have to say, what nonsense.
This is not the only investigation into the matter. There are also inquiries that can be opened in Great Britain. Iraq is also planning to thoroughly look into this.
Yes, he can lie, but to say he may do so with impunity is ridiculous. He does so at his own peril.
I can't turn on the TV til someone leaves for the office. :)
Thanks for the ping.
I see the current flavor of foolish, shallow and idiotic comments pervade the thread and I only read as far as your helpful ping so far (#10).
Thank YOU for being here or else I'd bail on this site for good.
How do you get that webcast to work?
I found the file .. but I'm not seeing a link for a webcast to see
My... my.... aren't we being an arrogant prig this morning.
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