Galloway was in Saddam's pay, say secret Iraqi documents (PACIFISTS ON SADDAM PAYROLL)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 22, 2003 | David Blair

[Tommyjo]

Although I have never liked Galloway, something does not add up here. Remember Arthur Scargill and the allegations that he took Libyian money? The media were forced to eat humble pie when nothing could be proved. Paper work such as this can be faked and Galloway was a prime target for such a scam. I think that the Telegraph in the end will be paying out a lump sum to Galloway in compensation if they decided to press ahead with the story.

[MadIvan]

Nonsense. The documentation was found in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry itself. How likely is it that someone planted this information in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, deep in the middle of a file, in a remote storage room, just on the off chance a British journalist would find it and discredit a relatively obscure Labour MP?

They got him.

Regards, Ivan

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Centurion2000]

This could get quite interesting whenever the American names start popping up. And they will...you can count on it.

Hmmm ... well they can't press for treason on documents alone ....

[Windcatcher]

No, but the IRS, FBI, and DOJ will crawl up their sphincters with a MICROSCOPE.

Follow the money.

[Humidston]

Rushing today and no time to read entire thread, but wanted to add Rush's comments today - in case nobody has.... It would look like this stands to take down MANY pols around the world, including the UN!! Rush says,

Oversite of Food for Oil Program was UN/Koffee

Koffee decided WHO got the oil and picked France, Russia, Syria.
The UN got a 2.2% commission and KOFFEE ADMINISTERED IT.
Rush says this is Enron x 100,000!!!

[Humidston]

PS... That's 2.2% of MILLIONS of dollars A DAY.

[skr]

"The same laws can be applied."

Good!

[Victoria Delsoul]

The documents say that Mr Galloway entered into partnership with a named Iraqi oil broker to sell the oil on the international market.

Alas the hypocrisy!!! As Bertrand Russell stated, "We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

[Senator Goldwater]

To George Galloway
From Led Zeppelin III:

"Now I laugh, oh so hard
to see you swinging on the gallow's pole"

[MinuteGal]

Ivan, what is the British equivalent of our IRS?

After a story like this broke, it seems to me that if I were a member of Congress with a yearly published salary, the IRS would be at my doorstep in a NY minute. It would be investigating where my yearly half-a-million dollar extra income was coming from, especially if I owned and was maintaining "villas" here and there around the world on a representative's salary.

It also seems to me that this leftist MP is in a catch-22. He either didn't report his income truthfully, in which case, he's toast.

Or, if he DID report it as legal income and claims it was for "work performed" for Saddam's regime, he's toast also.

Please keep us informed if he's being investigated by your "IRS" equivalent or any other authorities, or if he's only being tried in the press.

[Frances_Marion]

Well well well...I'm sure nobody here is suprised that the most anti-American and aggressive protesters of action against Iraq are payed mouthpieces of the Ba'athist socialists.

[Diddle E. Squat]

bump

[buffyt]

Bill & Hill??????

[Marysecretary]

Ah, school of Oriental and African Studies. Hmm, figures. Some of them can be way out there.

[Tommyjo]

Galloway matter settled

By a staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor and British Member of Parliament George Galloway have reached a settlement, including a payment to him, over an article based on documents the Monitor obtained last April in Baghdad.
The documents purported to show payments from the Saddam Hussein regime to Mr. Galloway over a period of 12 years, but the Monitor eventually performed ink-dating tests that discredited the documents, suggesting they were almost certainly forged. The Monitor ran a front-page story last June outlining the ink tests and other expert examinations that included an apology to Galloway and to Monitor readers. Later that summer, Galloway threatened to sue the Monitor in Britain, which does not have the same free-press or free-speech protections as American law. The settlement also includes a statement that was read in open court, endorsed by the Monitor, which reiterates that the aspersions the original documents cast on Galloway are unfounded.

Galloway has filed a libel suit against the London-based Daily Telegraph over articles based on an entirely different set of documents, also found in Baghdad last April, that also alleged payments to him by the Hussein government. In recent weeks, an Iraqi newspaper reported on other documents discovered by officials in the Iraqi oil ministry. These documents are said to list profitable concessions under the UN oil-for-food program doled out by the Hussein government to foreigners, including Galloway associates, who provided funding for a charity he ran. Galloway himself has reportedly denied receiving any oil concessions and has said he is unaware that his charity received any proceeds from such deals. None of these documents repeats or offers any evidence of the transactions described in the documents that led to the Monitor article.

The documents obtained by the Monitor were provided by a former Iraqi army general. He has not acknowledged that the documents were forged.