THE TIMES: Galloway denies receiving £370,000 Iraq oil payments

The Times (UK) ^ | 4/22/03 | Melissa Kite

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

I think this may have been a late posting to the Times website (I happened to catch it through The Command Post).

[EternalVigilance]

Whoa mama...

[Shermy]

“The truth is I have never met, to the best of my knowledge, any member of Iraqi Intelligence.

The question to be put to him is has he ment members of the Iraqi government, whether or not they are part of Iraqi intelligence.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Well, we know he's met Iraqi government officials, including Saddam himself, with whom he did a grovelling interview for some rag across the pond.

[konaice]

Wow...
This is astounding information.
The Iraqi'would have no reason to forge these documents.
Who else would? If the docuemtns really exist and were captured in Baghdad this is pretty damming stuff.

[cyncooper]

However he says he did spend one Christmas in Baghdad, possibly in 1999.

POSSIBLY in 1999?

I can remember where I spent Christmas in 1999, with no "possibly" entering into the question.

Well, this is looking more and more like they found the goods on Galloway.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

By the way, here's links to the original Telegraph story and editorial posted by MadIvan, the documents on the Telegraph site, and the Sun and Independent takes posted by Pokey78.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hmmm!

[dighton]

If Gallows-bait "strenulously denied" it, it must be false.

;-)

[Brett66]

There's probably enough evidence for a hangin'. Time to get a rope......

[Cold Heat]

Sounds like the cries of a guilty useful idiot.

Wonder how much he took and how many others there are?

[nopardons]

Sure and who're we supposed to believe anyway...him or official papers found in Iraq ? LOL

[Shermy]

I reread one of the articles and saw...

"name of Mr Galloway or his wife should never be mentioned".

So, his Palestinian wife is in the mix. I'd bet with MariamAppeal's base being in Jordan, the secret accounts rest there.

[Shermy]

...or Syria. Lots of Iraqi oil flowed through there.

[dighton]

... the sentence of the Court upon you is, that you be taken from this place to a lawful prison, and thence to a place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead; and that your body be afterwards buried within the precincts of the prison in which you shall have been confined before your execution. And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.

[Publius]

A larger question: Are there any American politicians who had the same deal with Iraq that Galloway had?

[cyncooper]

I'd bet with MariamAppeal's base being in Jordan, the secret accounts rest there.

You seem to know a bit of history about this Galloway.

I did not, but was on the original thread. The intermediary between Galloway and the Iraqi government was a man from--ta da--Jordan.

[cyncooper]

Here's the reference:

"Mr Galloway's intermediary in Iraq was Fawaz Zureikat, a Jordanian. In a letter found in one foreign ministry file, Mr Galloway wrote: 'This is to certify that Mr Fawaz A Zureikat is my representative in Baghdad on all matters concerning my work with the Mariam Appeal or the Emergency Committee in Iraq.'"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897567/posts

[cyncooper]

Are there any American politicians who had the same deal with Iraq that Galloway had?"

That is what we all are anxious to know.

Here is the account of how the reporter came upon these documents:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/22/ngall122.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/22/ixnewstop.html

Excerpt:

Two more box files were labelled "Britain". Others were labelled "United States", "Security Council" and "France".

[Publius]

Others were labelled "United States"...

The hairs on the back of my neck started to rise when I read that. A lot of political careers may be about to founder.

Jim McDermott, maybe?

Perhaps it's time to resurrect the old House Un-American Activities Committee.