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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MPs usually are far more aggressive and rude than our legislators here.
Me too, I am very upset and angry.
C-span isn't showing it here.
Its about homeland security spending.
Looks like a RECESS is taking place for 20 minutes
THEY ARE LETTING HIM GO
Fox on high winds in Utah. I'm blowing a gasket and I'm about to let go w/a Dean scream if they don't start "monitoring" this hearing.
It's hard to follow this because Galloway keeps interrupting
The hearing is recessed for 20 minutes
Vote ... 20 minute recess
I missed that! Levin brown nosed him, huh? Well, THAT figures.
20 minute recess called..
Senate is voting on highway bill on c-span. Fox is really ticking me off. They saound like they admire galloways in your face attitude.
Levin asks Galloway if it turns out to be true that Zuricat (sp?--friend of Galloway and chairman of Marium's Appeal) was paying kickbacks to Iraq, would it trouble Galloway?
Galloway umbraged! Dances around but Levin proceeds to press and Galloway now waxing on about how the sanctions troubled him deeply and cites the children killed due to them.
He believes the UN had no right to starve Iraq's people because they had a falling out with their leader.
Galloway cites Bonier approvingly for calling the sanctions infanticide.
Galloway saying everybody got kickbacks.
It's from the House real player server linked earlier on this thread. Committeee in recess.
just glad , I don't know their names , just glad I watch sports recap and financials
LOL! a Dean-scream! I love that. Good one!
Can you link me?
Levin is not attacking Galloway for taking kickbacks, just not being circumspect about his contributors. This particular contributor is chairman of a company Galloway founded.
Recessed for twenty minutes.
Link to hearings on Real Player...
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/livehearing.ram
Here's where I've got it....
http://switchboard.real.com/player/email.html?PV=6.0.12&&title=Senate%20Governmental%20Affairs%20Committee&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hsgac.senate.gov%2Fhearings%2Flivehearing.ram
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