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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: bikepacker67

Nope.

Oh, unless you're speaking about yourself.


61 posted on 05/17/2005 6:18:45 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: onyx

oh ,sshhhhhh, ...our mass evacuation happens at 7:10 - 7:15


62 posted on 05/17/2005 6:18:49 AM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: Dad yer funny
Good mornin All....
I hope this thread doesn't go as fast as last weeks did.. wound I was posting stuff to myself.

This should prove interesting...and entertaining
63 posted on 05/17/2005 6:23:16 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: wildcatf4f3

Coleman was a Prosecutor before being elected Mayor of St. Paul, MN.


64 posted on 05/17/2005 6:24:01 AM PDT by txrangerette
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To: Libloather

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/livehearing.ram


65 posted on 05/17/2005 6:24:36 AM PDT by OXENinFLA ("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
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To: Howlin

See post # 4 by Dog...


66 posted on 05/17/2005 6:25:06 AM PDT by txrangerette
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To: Dad yer funny

LOL-LOL-LOL --- mass evacution --- lol-lol-lol... hilarious.


67 posted on 05/17/2005 6:25:45 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: txrangerette
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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

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
 
Witnesses
 
Panel 1
  Mark L. Greenblatt , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
  Steven A. Groves , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
  Dan M. Berkovitz , Counsel to the Minority , U. S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Panel 2

  George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow , Great Britain

Panel 3

  Thomas A. Schweich , Chief of Staff, U.S. Mission to the United Nations , U. S. Department of State
  Robert W. Werner , Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control , U. S. Department of the Treasury
  Peter Reddaway , Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs , George Washington University

68 posted on 05/17/2005 6:26:24 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: cyncooper


Good morning, cyn!
Please stay.


69 posted on 05/17/2005 6:26:52 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: Mo1

Here is the link:

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov

But I can't "see" it either.


70 posted on 05/17/2005 6:27:25 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Mo1

Try this one:

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Live


71 posted on 05/17/2005 6:28:19 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Howlin

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?


72 posted on 05/17/2005 6:28:53 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: onyx

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.


73 posted on 05/17/2005 6:29:38 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Dad yer funny
we're awash with bolshevik liars
Good image. Made me think of a pirate movie.
74 posted on 05/17/2005 6:29:38 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Dad yer funny
yup , ... and there is that odd circumstance where extra-intelligence is ascribed to the accent and diction

He's Scottish, so don't expect the standard 'BBC Home Counties' traditional British accent.

75 posted on 05/17/2005 6:31:09 AM PDT by Da_Shrimp
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To: cyncooper

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


76 posted on 05/17/2005 6:32:15 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Hillary's Chappaquiddick. Check it out at: www.Hillcap.org)
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To: Libloather
Some comments by 'Gorgeous George' that may be of interest:

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."

77 posted on 05/17/2005 6:34:27 AM PDT by Da_Shrimp
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To: cyncooper


I anticipate a sypathetic outreach to Galloway too.


78 posted on 05/17/2005 6:34:44 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: Howlin

BUMP LIVE NOW......


79 posted on 05/17/2005 6:35:13 AM PDT by OXENinFLA ("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
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To: All

Here we go .....opening statements ....


80 posted on 05/17/2005 6:35:55 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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