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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Nope.
Oh, unless you're speaking about yourself.
oh ,sshhhhhh, ...our mass evacuation happens at 7:10 - 7:15
Coleman was a Prosecutor before being elected Mayor of St. Paul, MN.
See post # 4 by Dog...
LOL-LOL-LOL --- mass evacution --- lol-lol-lol... hilarious.
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| Title: Oil For Influence: How Saddam Used Oil to Reward Politicians Under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program | ||||||||||||||
| Date: 5/17/05 | ||||||||||||||
| Time (EST): 9:30 AM | ||||||||||||||
| Place: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 106 | ||||||||||||||
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This hearing originally scheduled to be held in room SD-562 will now be held in room SD-106. The May 17th hearing will be third hearing the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has held on the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Program (“OFF Program”). The Subcommittee’s first hearing on the OFF Program laid the foundation for future hearings by describing how the OFF Program was exploited by Saddam Hussein. A second hearing examined the operations of the independent inspection agents retained by the United Nations in the OFF Program and examined issues related to inadequate management, audit, and procurement oversight. The hearing also examined issues related to why the U.S. and U.N. did not interfere with Iraq's open exports of oil to Jordan and Turkey, in violation of U.N. sanctions. The May 17th hearing will detail how Saddam Hussein manipulated the OFF Program to win influence and reward friends in order to undermine sanctions. In particular, this hearing will present evidence detailing how Saddam rewarded foreign officials with lucrative oil allocations that could be converted to money. The hearing will also examine the illegal surcharges paid on Iraqi oil sales, using examples involving the recently indicted U.S. company, Bayoil. In addition, more detailed information will be provided on the nature and extent of the 2003 Khor al-Amaya incident in which oil tankers loaded a large amount of Iraqi oil circumventing U.N. sanctions. To view the PSI Staff reports click on the OFF Reports link below and scroll down to the Related Files section. |
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| Hearing File: OFF Reports | ||||||||||||||
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Panel 2
Panel 3
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Good morning, cyn!
Please stay.
Here is the link:
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov
But I can't "see" it either.
I plan on doing a lot of "cleaning" right around this bonus room with the TV and computer. I am NOT missing this one!
Will you please send me "packing" (literally) by 10:am my time?
Good morning to you!
I am going to be looking at the attitude, tone and demeanor the dems take.
I anticipate they will be sympathetic to Galloway and hint (if not outright state) that the Republicans are grandstanding or overstating the evidence.
I will be pleasantly surprised if they stick to facts and ask genunine questions designed to elicit facts.
we're awash with bolshevik liarsGood image. Made me think of a pirate movie.
He's Scottish, so don't expect the standard 'BBC Home Counties' traditional British accent.
Good morning. I think you're correct, but also hope for the best out of the RATS.
(Have I just fulfilled the definition of insanity?)
;^D
I am on the anti-imperialist left."
(interviewer) The Stalinist left?
"I wouldn't define it that way because of the pejoratives loaded around it; that would be making a rod for your own back. If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe."
I anticipate a sypathetic outreach to Galloway too.
BUMP LIVE NOW......
Here we go .....opening statements ....
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