Posted on 01/24/2006 10:41:03 PM PST by MadIvan
Video footage has emerged showing George Galloway shaking hands with Saddam Hussein's son Uday - a rapist, torturer and convicted murderer.
The video, obtained by The Sun, shows the Respect MP having a 20-minute meeting with Saddam's eldest son in an Iraqi palace in 1999.
In the video, Mr Galloway is seen to greet Uday, shaking his hand twice and calling him "Excellency".
He jokes about losing weight, going bald and failing to give up smoking cigars.
Mr Galloway also orders watching journalists not to publish parts of their conversation.
Finally, according to the paper, he taunts the United States and vows to stick with Uday "until the end".
The video was shot for an Iraqi TV station and was smuggled out of Iraq before the regime fell.
Uday beat and stabbed to death his father's personal valet and food taster, Kemal Hana Gegeo, and was briefly imprisoned by Saddam.
He also raped numerous women, and his victims are believed to have included a visiting Russian ballerina.
And as head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, he oversaw the imprisonment and torture of Iraqi athletes who were deemed not to have performed to expectations.
Uday was shot dead by US soldiers in 2003. He was 39.
Any more doubts about the alliance of the left and islamofascists?
I'm sure that "The Guardian"will have this above the fold today (sarcasm).
Yep. He's the man without a conscience... or a country.
I found the article (though there are many), that details how Galloway was treated in Iraq during his visits.
It does make you think...
I suspect Malkovich would win that one...
Malkovich is a good actor...and he does "scary" very well.
Regards, Ivan
Forgive me for asking, since I don't watch TV, let alone British TV, but -- what exactly IS that show, BIG BROTHER?
Smuggled out and given to whom. . .
BRING it on. . .let us see GG making nice with Uday.
Where was this (and where is it, for that matter) when his voting constituency needed it? Would have been helpful to see; when he was about to embark on his U.S. tour as well.
When I saw the headline, I thought perhaps it referred to a link between Galloway and the 'suicide' death of Iraq weapons expert David Kelly. (The 'sexed-up' report...remember that?) I wouldn't have been surprised, just as I'm not surprised that he was friendly with Uday Hussein. Apparently Galloway has always been decadent and greedy, just like the Hussein 'boys' were.
Boy, the pranks Qusay would play!
Loved to gas the Kurds away.
But those rapes that wedding day--
Those were Uday's.
And you didn't dare complain
Or you'd gain a world of pain.
Mister, we could use a reign
Like that of Saddam Hussein.
Didn't need no polls to tell
Who would rule this living hell.
Gee, our old Iraq ran swell--
Those were the days!
This should not surprise anyone who has followed the issue.
France, Germany, Russia, these bustards all stood with
Hussein for the almight Dollar vice doing whats right.
This is newsworthy, but hardly a surprise.
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