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WAR IN THE GULF: GEORGE WIFE BLASTS CLAIMS Apr 28 2003

GEORGE Galloway's wife last night denied as "rubbish" claims he had blown a fortune on a Cuban mistress.

Biologist Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad said: "This is an old story that has been resurrected to try and discredit us. It's nonsense."

The Palestinian-born scientist has been under siege since last week's allegations that Labour's Glasgow Kelvin MP had received illegal payments from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.

As the allegations broke about the MP's love life, Amineh, 41, said she was braced for fresh rumours each day.

She said: "Everyday someone comes out with something else.

"But we are bearing up well. I am in constant touch with my husband and he is fine.

"I keep telling him to hold his head up high. He has done nothing wrong."

But her voice sounded close to breaking as she added: "We will come through this stronger."

Amineh has faced the allegations alone at their home in Streatham, south London.

Galloway, 48, has been writing a book on Iraq at their villa on the Algarve, Portugal, since Easter.

He was estranged from his first wife Elaine and had a headline-hitting affair behind him when he met Amineh in 1991.

They married in March 2000 in London.

Mr Galloway's wife said yesterday that her husband had done nothing wrong. "He is a hero to me," Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad told the Daily Mirror. "I have always admired him and I continue to do so. I am fully behind him. I have always believed in him 100 per cent.

"Any idiot can see this is a disgraceful smear campaign and we will fight it. My husband is an honorable man which is why I married him."

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Amineh has faced the allegations alone at their home in Streatham, south London.

Has anyone started the pool on when we expect the missus to slip out of the country yet?

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Galloway's writing a book on Iraq? I wonder what he plans to call it...My Friend Saddam, the Gentle Dictator? How the JOOOOS and Their Partners, the Great Satan, Oppress Our Arab Brothers?

I also wonder why he didn't come back from Portugal when the Telegraph broke the story. Why is he leaving his wife to take the heat? In fact, shouldn't the MP be in Parlaiment? Is Parlaiment in recess or something? Sort of a spring break?

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GEORGE Galloway's wife last night denied as "rubbish" claims he had blown a fortune on a Cuban mistress.

A CUBAN mistress! hahahahahaha

I'm sure way back when he had a Soviet girlfriend, too.

" My husband is an honorable man which is why I married him."

Yeah, sure, honey.