Fresh doubts surface over embattled MP (possible Galloway-al Qaida link)

The Observer UK ^ | Sunday April 27, 2003 | Martin Bright, Antony Barnett and Mark Hollingsworth

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Galloway needs a gallows.

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898108/posts
MP George Galloway- voice cries "peace," hand in Saddam's till...
various FR links | 04-22-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[Joe Boucher]

bump

[gulfcoast6]

You are so right, betcha he (The Evil One) will surface.

[Miss Marple]

Sure, Saddam was a public whipping boy, but what if Saddam accepted the public role with the understanding that nothing serious would be done? WHY DID CLINTON PROVOKE THE TALIBAN IN DECEMBER OF 2000?

Clinton has always pulled stuff with cover through intermediaries.However, if said intermediaries were discussed by the Iraqi government as standing in for Clinton and his representatives, Clinton wouldn't know that or be able to control it.

Where are those two, anyway? I haven't heard anything from either of them since...oh...I don't know....about the time Galloway's papers were found.

[mewzilla]

Is Galloway still in Portugal? And is his wife with him, anyone know?

[mewzilla]

Lookee here at this link to something written in 2002. Click here then look for the story at the end. This info is from a Daily Telegraph article dated Mar. 15, 2002. Here's the interesting part:

However, Mr Galloway's judgment has been questioned because of his close contacts with Arab radicals. His entry in the register of members' interests shows that he has visited Iraq six times in two years, and has been on 12 other trips abroad funded by the Miriam Appeal, named after an Iraqi girl whom Mr Galloway brought to Britain for medical treatment, or by groups opposed to sanctions on Iraq.

John Sweeney, a journalist working for BBC Five Live, unearthed the fact that an Arab from whom Mr Galloway received thousands of pounds in cash for expenses in the 1990s was the same man who was named in an American court as the purchaser of a satellite telephone used by al-Qa'eda in Afghanistan.

Five years ago, Mr Galloway was investigated by the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee over his financial relationship with Saad Al Fagih, a London based dissident Saudi politician. During the inquiry Mr Galloway identified more than £5,000-worth of items on his credit card bill that had been paid by Mr Fagih.

He said that all were out-of-pocket expenses. He also said that he had been given £1,800 to hand over to foreign nationals living in political exile in Britain, but refused to say who they were.

Sir George Downey, then Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, said he had "no grounds for challenging Mr Galloway's version of events".

Evidence presented at the New York trial of four Arabs accused of involvement in the bombings showed that the satellite telephone was shipped to Mr Fagih, whose name appeared on a docket under the heading "payment portion".

Mr Fagih has refused to say why his name appeared, but he denied having any link with the al-Qa'eda network. He said that the document had been known to the authorities in London since it was seized in a police raid three years ago.

When Mr Galloway was asked whether he had second thoughts about accepting money from Mr Fagih, he replied: "I am not responsible for anyone else's views on Osama Bin Laden other than my own, which are as I expressed in the House after September 11, to wit, that I despised him, always had even when the British and American governments were giving him guns and money and that I considered him an obscurantist savage. Strong enough?"

[mewzilla]

There just aren't words. Just a lot of questions on why the heck this guy was allowed to do what he's been doing for so long.

[cyncooper]

Yes, Galloway in Portugal, wife in England.

[mewzilla]

Gee, do you suppose he's going to try to vote from Portugal? Is Parliament in session right now?

[bert]

The Saudis referenced are "London Dissidents" who with Osama are plotting revolution.

[HamiltonJay]

Anyone got a photo of this Traitor?

This guy needs the hangman's noose if what is being reported is true... he not only betrayed his country, he has betrayed civilization itself.

[Coop]

I say put this guy before a military tribunal and shoot his ass.

Reverse the order, and I'm in full agreement.

[SHKMAN1212]

I would not be surprised if they discover documents showing payments or other compensation to Scott Ritter...Like many UN inspectors he was in Iraq for some time and offers could easily have been extended...In such a situation it would make sense for a person compromised in such a manner to voice belicose statements so they could later claim that their arrest is politically motivated.

[cyncooper]

Gee, do you suppose he's going to try to vote from Portugal? Is Parliament in session right now?

In the stack of articles posted lately, one noted that he is not known for consistant attendance and votes over the years. It will be interesting to see if he budges from his $400,000 (per Weekly Standard) "cottage" in Portugal anytime soon.

[knighthawk]

What the media will discover next? He is so deep in, I bet he will leave the UK very soon and live in the same cave with his pals Osama and Saddam.

[GailA]

MASTER LIST Useless Nation's Oil for Food scam + galloway

[Cachelot]

I think we will evidentually find conclusive evidence of France's complicity in 9/11.

Yeah, well.. you know, that hysterical conspiracy theory that is floating around on the Nazi boards (LibertyForum, for example) claiming that 9/11 was the work of the jooos and the FBI and the joooish American administration? It originated in France :).

[ellery]

He's actually already left the UK -- he's been holed up in his luxury villa in Portugal since the news broke. He's supposedly writing a book about Iraq -- ha! Bet he'll never set foot in Britain again.

[knighthawk]

Never knew that.