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.
I believe the appropriate phrase is, "stick a fork in him, he's done".
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
I got to ask. What is the connection between the above article and that picture because I don't see any connection?
holy cow. what is this guy smoking? i haven't had a chance to see his 'cat' video yet...
My pal the psychopath
Crawling ... George with Saddam Hussein's son, UdayBy JAMES CLENCH
CELEB Big Brother prat George Galloway is today exposed in his revolting true colours — fawning before Saddam Hussein’s murderous son Uday.An astonishing video shows Galloway, 51, laughing and joking with the evil psychopath during a 20-minute meeting in an Iraqi palace.
The Respect party MP, who Sun readers can boot off the Channel 4 show tonight, has sickened viewers with his antics in the BB house.
He CRAWLED on all fours pretending to be a cat lapping milk from the hands of housemate Rula Lenska, 57.
He PRANCED around in a red leotard with cross-dresser Pete Burns in another task.
But smarmy Galloway’s crawling around the tyrannical old Iraqi regime was even more disgusting.
He famously met dictator Saddam in 1994 and told him: “Sir, allow me to salute your courage, power and indefatigability.”
Video nasty ... Galloway and Uday on Iraqi TVNow The Sun’s exclusive new footage reveals he also revelled in meeting crazed torturer and murderer Uday more than once. In the video Galloway:
GREETS Uday like an old friend, shaking his hand and twice calling him “Excellency”.
JOKES with his pal about losing weight, going bald and failing to give up smoking cigars.
ORDERS watching journalists not to publish parts of their conversation.
TAUNTS America — and VOWS to stick with sadistic Uday “until the end”.
Film shame ... MP and torturer share jokeBig Brother fans will be astonished that Galloway could sink so low. For Uday, dubbed The Wolf by terrified Iraqis, is known to have killed thousands of people.
He began watching Saddam’s torturers at work at the age of four.
Depraved Uday enjoyed it so much he later had his own private torture chamber, where he toyed with screaming victims.
He was a mass rapist who set dogs on a 24-year-old woman who rejected his advances — then watched as she was ripped apart.
Footballers and athletes who failed to impress Uday faced death, torture or beatings when he ran both sports in Iraq.
Two sportsmen were thrown to their deaths from a 75ft bridge.
And a coffin-shaped “iron maiden” with spikes that impaled anyone in it was found near the Iraqi soccer HQ by allied troops.
Galloway met Uday in 1999 at the end of a two-month journey on a double decker bus through a number of Arab nations.
The tour was to highlight his Mariam Appeal, a cause to raise cash for a sick Iraqi girl.
A US senate report claims the charity received £300,000 in oil money from Saddam — which Galloway denies.
The meeting was shot for an Iraqi TV station run by Uday and was smuggled out of the country after the regime fell.
Galloway, his greying hair coiffed and wearing a dark suit, and tie, is shown being led into a room with his now-estranged Palestinian wife Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad and business partner Fawas Zureikat.
The trio are warmly welcomed by Uday, who wears a badly fitting, shiny powder blue double- breasted jacket and dark trousers.
Galloway, showing he has met Uday at least once before, reaches out to shake his hand, saying: “Your Excellency, very, very nice to see you again.”
Uday replies in English: “Nice to see you.” Galloway goes on: “It’s almost one year since we met. How are you?” Uday replies: “You seem in very good health.”
Galloway says: “I lost weight, I’m very happy about that.”
Uday replies in Arabic through a bespectacled, gap-toothed translator: “Yes, I see you’ve lost some weight, so I think it’s better.”
Galloway, as if to an old friend, laughs: “It’s good, but unfortunately I’m losing my hair also.”
Uday chuckles: “Yes, I’ve noticed, especially on the left side. But I’m one step ahead of you, I’ve quit cigars, you are still smoking.”
In the stomach-churning manner familiar to Big Brother viewers, Galloway flatteringly replies: “People of good taste either used to to be, or still are, smokers of Havanas.”
Uday responds to the ego massage, saying: “That’s why we have opened this subject so we can call you to quit smoking.” Whenever Uday speaks, Galloway looks at him attentively and hangs on his every word.
And the politician, who campaigned against the war to overthrow Saddam tells Uday: “I’d like you to know that we are with you ‘til the end.”
Describing his recent tour, Galloway mentions several Arab countries. But when he starts speaking about Libya he turns and says: Please don’t publish this . . . if there are journalists . . . ”
The tape then cuts out. When it resumes, Galloway is talking about Egypt.
He boasts: “If we had stayed in Egypt one more week there might have been a revolution. There were tens of thousands of people in the street around the bus. And our bus was parked at night just next to the American Embassy.”
Galloway explains that the bus had “No Embargo On Iraq” emblazoned across it.
He goes on: “They had to look at our bus every day. It was making a few people nervous.”
Someone ought to hurt Galloway.
Regards, Ivan
It's part of a progression of Galloway making himself look bad. First he was crawling on all fours like a cat, then he danced in a leotard, and now the Uday video.
Regards, Ivan
Hey, isn't one of the UK officials who took money in the Oil for Food scandal?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1511558/posts
wow! you're good! lol i hadn't even thought of that!
So he is trying to create a insanity defense for himself.
Great thread, Ivan... thanks!
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,... so much for stickin' with Uday "til the end"
this will get even more entertaining ,...
... wait , just wait
If not, does the male on my left really have a position in British Gov't?
Who ever he is, he must be a real 'fruitcake'.
Never mind, I see my questions have been aswered
priceless.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563260/posts
there is the link to the video. i couldn't get it to play. :(
yup , Galloway is one of those genuine euro fruitcakes , and ...
.... he's got a hole in his screendoor , and the flies are gettin' in
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